The Ambani family’s billion-dollar, party-ready mansion – Antilia: Mukesh and his clan hosted a light show at the 27-storey, 600-staffed home – but do his kids Anant, Isha and Akash still live there?

Mukesh’s youngest son Anant Ambani and his fiancée Radhika Merchant recently had a pre-wedding bash in Gujarat attended by the likes of Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, with a concert by Rihanna
Asia’s richest man and his clan are also known to throw lavish parties at the family home, Antilia, which the Guinness Book of World Records has dubbed the most expensive private residence globally

Mukesh Ambani, India’s richest man, and his family live in a fittingly opulent 27-story tower on Mumbai’s most exclusive street.

Named the most expensive private residence in the world by the Guinness Book of World Records, the Ambanis’ house apparently requires a staff of 600, has three helipads, and features a cinema that can seat 50.

Dubbed Antilia – the name of a mythical island off the coast of Europe – the interior of the building has been rarely photographed.

With all eyes on the Ambanis’ lavish lives following the pre-wedding celebrations of Mukesh’s youngest son Anant Ambani, and his fiancée Radhika Merchant, we compiled everything we know about Antilia, the Ambani family home.

The Ambani family’s pre-wedding festivities captured the world’s attention this month

Mukesh Ambani, Isha Piramal, Rihanna, Shloka Mehta Ambani, Akash Ambani and Radhika Merchant on the stage during the pre-wedding celebrations of Anant Ambani and Merchant in Jamnagar, Gujarat, India, on March 1. Photo: Reliance Industries/Handout via Reuters

The Ambani family caught the world’s attention this month with pre-wedding festivities for son Anant that included a private Rihanna concert and meals prepared by 100 chefs.

Anant Ambani’s pre-wedding party had tons of high-profile guests

Mark Zuckerberg (centre) posing with billionaire industrialist Mukesh Ambani’s son Anant Ambani (right) and Radhika Merchant at their pre-wedding bash in Jamnagar, India, on March 2. Photo: Reliance group via AP
High-profile guests, including Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, flocked to Jamnagar, India, to toast the marriage of Anant, whose father Mukesh is reported to be worth US$113 billion.

Mukesh Ambani and his wife Nita have three children

Siblings Isha (centre), Akash (right) and Anant Ambani are set to lead in their father’s footsteps. Photo: @isha.ambhani/Instagram

Isha and Akash are twins, and they’re the oldest Ambani children. Anant is their younger brother.

Akash, his wife Shloka Mehta and their children Prithvi and Veda, along with Anant, still live in the family home of Antilia, as previously reported. Isha moved out to live with her husband Anand Piramal. The Huffington Post reported that Antilia requires a staff of 600.

Mukesh Ambani is considered India’s richest man

Mukesh Ambani (right) poses with wife Nita Ambani before addressing Reliance Industries’ annual general meeting in Mumbai, India, in July 2017. Photo: Reuters

Mukesh is the chairman of the energy, retail and media conglomerate Reliance Industries and is considered India’s richest man. The tower he custom-built sits on Altamount Road, the Billionaires’ Row of Mumbai.

The Ambani family’s Mumbai residence is the most expensive home in the world

Mukesh Ambani’s Antilia. Photo: @antiliahouse/Instagram

The Ambani family’s home is the most expensive private residence in the world, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. (Other rankings put it second, after Buckingham Palace.)

The tower is called Antilia, named after a mythical island in the Atlantic Ocean. The 400,000 sq ft structure is officially 27 stories high, although its many double-height ceilings mean it’s closer in height to a traditional 40-story building.

Antilia is on the most exclusive residential road in Mumbai: Altamount Road

Antilia, the house of Mukesh Ambani, is decorated during his daughter Isha Ambani’s wedding, in Mumbai, India, in December 2018. Photo: Reuters

The Ambanis’ house was constructed between 2006 and 2010, according to Architectural Digest India. At the time, it cost an estimated US$1 billion to build, but there’s no way of knowing what the tower is worth today.

Inside Antilia, there are nine lifts, a 50-seat cinema and a full-service spa. Antilia has been the site of exclusive parties for Mumbai’s wealthiest residents.

Plus the tower has a 168-car garage and is equipped with three helipads.

Antilia opened in February 2010. But in 2011, The New York Times reported Mumbai’s elite were speculating that the Ambanis hadn’t yet moved into the tower. Antilia, one expert said, didn’t align with Hindu architectural philosophy.

There’s luxury art inside Antilia

In 2020, Vogue India catalogued some high-end art inside the Ambani house, including work by the modern Indian artist Francis Newton Souza and Love sculptor Robert Indiana.

Antilia was a site of celebration in early 2024

A temple in the Ambani residence. Photo: YouTube

The Ambani family hosted a light show at Antilia in January in honour of the historic inauguration of Ram Mandir, a gigantic new temple in the ancient city of Ayodhya. Holograms of religious sayings adorned the building. Visitors flocked to see the bedazzled tower and get close to one of India’s most iconic homes.

Antilia’s opulence has drawn criticism

Mukesh Ambani’s Antilia. Photo: @ishaambani5/Instagram
In 2011, Ratan Tata, another one of India’s richest men, told the Times of India: “It’s sad because this country needs people to allocate some of their enormous wealth to finding ways of mitigating the hardship that people have.”