Divorced two years ago, recently helped fund his girlfriend Dasha Zhukova's art gallery.

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"Educating your children in the West used to be a fashion", says Dasha, who runs a tutoring agency in London that prepares Russian children for Western private schools.

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Roman Abramovich, owner of Chelsea football club, and his partner Dasha Zhukova have used Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst, whose family inhabits 15th-century Sudeley Castle in Gloucestershire, as an art adviser.

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