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How the 'Madonna' of Billionaires Is Playing His Fourth Act
- Billionaire is on to the fourth act of his peripatetic career
- He earlier made fortunes from aluminum, plastics and pop stars
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First it was aluminum in Russia. Then oil, then plastics. Pop stars and sports followed. Now comes biotech.
Len Blavatnik, a man who a decade ago was frequently labeled, to his immense displeasure, an oligarch, is constantly reinventing. Deep into the fourth act of his peripatetic career, the 64-year-old billionaire is plowing his enormous fortune into investments miles removed from its gritty, post-Soviet origins.