Good luck for Mr.Abramovich.

HASAN, london,

I understand The Right Hon. Tony Blair is looking for positions - maybe he could work for Mr. Abramovich. It would certainly explain the UKs tax attitude to rich multimillionaires.

Kyle Cameron, Melbourne, Australia

Mr Barnett - join the Q!!!

Mr Single, Everywhere,

Could it be Abramovich put Irina up to fake the affair, and that the divorce as a way to safe guard his wealth by transferring some of it to her name? Maybe this is a shrewd way of protecting his wealth from any potential future attempts by the Russian government to seize his assets should he one day lose favour with whoever replcaes Putin. He has been gradually transferring his interests away from Russia anyway.

Chris, London,

Sorry, Jay - I missed the part where you said you were going to put down the brush that you're tarring 53,000,000 with and emigrate?

Dan, Hampton,

I think that the tabloids will now start to continually expose Abramovich's personal life. At some point he will up sticks and leave, selling Chelsea. I imagine some Italian clubs are looking quite cheap at the minute. They will then be bankrupt as they live way beyond the income generated at the gates or in the shops.

It was only a matter of time before the tabloids got stuck in.

Mark, London, UK

So they got divorced. So what? People split up all the time. What has wealth got to do with it? It's not as if the trappings of being rich can necessarily insulate your marriage or family from unhappiness. At least Mrs A will now have plenty of cash to pay for the best possible therapists for her 5 kids, should they be adversely affected by the split and their father's philandering.

TomTom, it's not difficult to 'survive Communism', as many millions of citizens of former Eastern Bloc countries will tell you! I find it hardly surprising that some Russians, having spent years of their education learning to criticize and understand the workings of Western capitalism, were able to turn the new free market of the 1990s to their own advantage.

Charlotte Gawthorpe, London, UK

tell his ex I am available

Mr Barnett, Stein am Rhein, Switzerland

If Jay in London thinks that Abramovich made his billions ethically in an utterly corrupt and poverty-stricken region of Russia, he is naive beyond words. The oligarchs raided Russia's natural resources for a pittance as Boris Yeltsin destroyed the Russian economy, and ordinary Russian citizens have been paying for it ever since. Jay has a poor taste in role models.

shay, boston, usa

Your desire just happens to you along with its fulfilment, or non-fulfilment. You can change neither. You may believe that you exert yourself, strive and struggle. Again, it all merely happens, including the fruits of the work. Nothing is by you and for you. All is in the picture exposed on the cinema screen, nothing in the light, including what you take yourself to be, the person. You are the light only.

James Benson, Scarborough, England

Nothing more exemplifies the difference between the US and the UK than the comments made on this story. Here is a man who came from persecution and poverty to wonderful success through his own hard work and intelligence

This is the American dream and is applauded. All the winging British can do is enviously criticise. Get off your backside, get an education and perhaps you too will be able to succeed. But oh, I forgot, that might mean having to do something instead of it being handed to you on a plate.

I much prefer the US attitude.

Jay, London,

Nice to know that the venerable sport of full-contact irony is alive and well in Leeds........

Graham Watson, Birmingham, UK

Ridiculous - he is one of many thousands of foreigners living in the UK because to them the Ul is a tax haven - why do the resident and/or domiciled British put up with this unfair tax treatment ?

Ginger, Cambridge, UK

Reading about how the super-rich spend their loot is one of the few reasons to get up each day. It is so inpiring to read about self-made men struggling to build their business empires under Communism and how they found happiness on this island where the natives rejoice in a land of milk and honey. The excellence of government, the wonders of transport, and the delights of education are no doubt what attract billionaires here to muck in and build a better Britain.

It is what makes the travails of police inadeqacy, societal breakdown, and high cost of living tolerable. If rich Russians can have survived Communism to emerge billionaires and choose to live here it is simply inspirational to the rest of us and we should be grateful to the media for the daily fayre of Travails of a Billionaire

ToMTom, Leeds, England