Mr Mantheakis said that a Belgian woman who had worked as an escort had approached him and had handed him a file with evidence that proved that she had been in a relationship with Mr De Miranda. The file had contained receipts for hotel accommodation, flights and other details. Ms Onassis was three years old when her mother Christina died of a pulmonary edema. Facebook Twitter: NeosKosmos Instagram. Newsletter Get the best of Neos Kosmos delivered to your inbox.
Athina's own life has been scarred by the death of her mother Christina when she was three, a much publicized legal battle with her father Thierry Roussel over control of her fortune, and a show jumping accident that caused the death of her beloved horse. Doda's relationships with a number of women had been the topic of gossip in Wellington horse circles throughout the winter.
Ignoring Doda's pleas, the security team reported his alleged adultery to Athina, and she immediately packed her bags and flew to Belgium, where she has a home. At first Doda's representatives insisted there was no problem in the marriage, but by early June his spokeswoman confirmed that Doda and Athina had separated.
Doda told the Brazilian magazine Epoca , "I am really in the midst of a storm. But I will not give up on my love. It won't be easy, but I'll fight until the end. Does Doda have a chance to regain Athina's trust?
His friends say no one should underestimate him, because he is as charming and determined as Athina's father, whom her mother showered with money and gifts far beyond what their divorce settlement called for—even though he left her for his mistress. We have been observing and writing about the Onassis family for decades, in newspapers, magazines, and books.
For the biography Greek Fire, the Story of Maria Callas and Aristotle Onassis , we interviewed the tycoon's closest relatives and associates and were given access to his private papers and logs. While researching the book we met the shy year-old Athina at a family gathering; we also talked to her on the phone in for an article about her feud with her father over who would control her vast inheritance.
In our conversations with Athina's friends it became clear that she will react far differently to her husband's alleged infidelity than her mother did to Roussel's. Athina is tough, her cousin Marilena Patronikola told us. This year has seen a number of high-profile splits, most notably Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt , whose net worth is also reported to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
But unlike that case, and other celebrity divorces currently unspooling in the gossip columns, the battle between Athina and Doda will probably not include daily doses of damaging personal information being leaked by anonymous sources. When Athina's mother Christina Onassis died on November 19, , at the age of 37, she was in Buenos Aires and Athina was being cared for by a nanny at her home in Switzerland. Christina's body was flown first to Athens for the funeral and then to Skorpios, the private island she had inherited from Aristotle, for a private burial ceremony.
Roussel attended his ex-wife's services and then had three-year-old Athina brought to live with him and his longtime mistress, Swedish model and translator Marianne "Gaby" Landhage, and their children. They ultimately settled in Lussy-sur-Morges, Switzerland, near Lausanne.
Roussel was Christina's fourth husband none of the marriages lasted more than three years , and she was deeply in love, staying with him even after she learned that Gaby was pregnant with his child at the same time that Christina was pregnant with Athina. Gaby gave birth to a son, Erik, in July , six months after Athina was born. Two years later, when Christina learned that Gaby was expecting a second child by Roussel, she finally divorced him.
Thierry, Gaby, and the children lived in a five-bedroom villa, and Athina and her half-siblings were enrolled at a local public school. Gaby encouraged their interest in the environment and animals, which some say led to Athina's passion for horses. Gaby and Thierry married in , with Athina, Erik, and younger daughter Sandrine as their attendants. They know too well that I have a weakness for this man, and therefore I will always be subject to abuse.
There was also a fifth manager of Athina's money: Thierry Roussel. Perhaps anticipating this arrangement, Christina wrote to the board president, Stelios Papadimitriou, telling him, "the job of the protectors is to keep the door [to my fortune] closed…because they know too well that I have a weakness for this man, and therefore I will always be subject to abuse.
At one point Roussel brought Athina to a courthouse in Switzerland so she could fill out documents stating that she "felt great aversion to anything Greek, even though she knows that her mother, her grandfather, and her fortune come from Greece. This was Roussel's effort to circumvent a provision he had signed after Christina's death in order to get custody—one specified by his ex-wife stating that Athina would be "reared in the Orthodox religion" and "will learn the Greek language so as to speak it fluently.
Roussel was constantly at odds with the "graybeards," as the press called the four board members. He accused them of plotting against Athina. They in turn accused him of isolating her and depriving her of her Greek heritage. The disputes became increasingly protracted until, finally, in , a Swiss court took the management of Athina's fortune away from Roussel and the board members and turned it over to a Swiss auditing firm.
Athina was Less than four years later the young heiress moved out of Roussel's home to live in Brussels. She also subsequently renewed her Greek passport which her mother had obtained for her , dropped out of school, and began preparing a legal case against her father to revoke a power-of-attorney document that he had persuaded her to sign.
Athina had become increasingly passionate about riding, and when she was 17 she enrolled in an equestrian school, Haras de Ligny, in Fleurus, Belgium, run by Nelson Pessoa, a former Olympic rider from Brazil. One of the first things Pessoa did was introduce her to another student, Alvaro de Miranda Neto. The sole surviving Onassis her uncle Alexandros having died in an airplane accident in , she seems, like her grandfather and her mother, to have been singled out for a life of difficulty despite her riches.
Her father, the French pharmaceutical heir Thierry Roussel, was never trusted by her mother, and their marriage was brief and rocky, ending after only eight months. Her daughter Athina Onassis was born on January 29, , and was later baptized on Skorpios. Nightlife on the island calmed down after that point, and Christina and Roussel started divorce proceedings just eight months later.
Athina was only three years of age when her mother Christina passed away from pulmonary edema. She was then shuttled off to live with her father and his girlfriend — with whom he had been having an affair during the time he was married to her mother.
At Christmastime in , a third tomb was opened next to those of Aristotle and Alexandros Onassis on Skorpios.
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