- The Ambanis are the richest family in Asia, according to Forbes.
- The family patriarch, Indian business tycoon Mukesh Ambani, is India’s richest man, worth an estimated $60.7 billion, according to Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index.
- Ambani is the 12th-richest person in the world, according to Bloomberg, while Forbes pegs him as the 10th-richest.
- While more than half of India’s richest people took hits to their net worth in the past year, Ambani has added $16.4 billion to his fortune since the beginning of 2019.
- The Ambanis live in a 27-story skyscraper in Mumbai, rumored to have cost $1 billion to build, which would make it one of the most expensive homes anywhere in the world.
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The richest family in Asia is an Indian family that made headlines in 2018 for throwing one of the most lavish wedding celebrations in recent memory, which included a private Beyoncé concert and celebrity guests including Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas, Hillary Clinton, and Arianna Huffington.
The Ambani family is behind the oil-to-telecom conglomerate Reliance Industries. The company’s chairman and largest shareholder is Mukesh Ambani, the richest man in Asia, who is worth an estimated $60.7 billion, according to Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index.
That makes him the 12th-richest person in the world, according to Bloomberg, while Forbes pegs him the 10th-richest.
Mukesh’s daughter, 28-year-old Isha Ambani, married Anand Piramal, 34, heir to a real-estate and pharmaceutical business, in December 2018 at the Ambani family home in Mumbai, a 27-story skyscraper that cost an estimated $1 billion to build.
Here’s a look at the Ambani family’s fortune, relationships, friends, and lavish lifestyles.
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