At Christmastime in , a third tomb was opened next to those of Aristotle and Alexandros Onassis on Skorpios. Athina visited the island a few times in the following years to visit the graves of her legendary family.
Competing just two years ago in a show jumping event in Athens, she still devotes a great deal of time and money to the sport. When she was married to Brazilian Alvaro de Miranda Neto, also known as Doda, years ago, she invested a large sum of money in a huge ranch there.
The couple married in — when Athina was only 20 years old — but they had known each other for many years from show jumping competitions.
Reports at the time said that Doda would be paid alimony of , euros per month according to he stipulations of a pre-nuptial agreement. The prenup would also give the Brazilian a one-time payment 11 million euros, plus all the horses the couple had bought and bred together over the course of their year-long marriage. According to reports out of the German magazine Bunte. She even attended a regular state school, though persistent kidnap threats meant she had to be watched at all times by a team of former SAS guards, who drove her to and from home in a bullet-proof limousine.
By the time she was 17, Athina was ready to move to Brussels to pursue her passion for riding. And it was at Belgium's prestigious Nelson Pessoa riding academy that she first set eyes on her future husband - Brazilian equestrian and father-of-one Alvaro Alfonso de Miranda Neto, or 'Doda'. Romance blossomed and Athina moved to Sao Paulo to be closer to her new beau. Her father, concerned about Alvaro's intentions, as well as the fact he is 12 years Athina's superior, took steps to tighten control over her inheritance.
The teenager launched - and won - a legal battle against him, which is said to have taken a bitter toll on their relationship. When the couple wed in a lavish ceremony on December 3, , Thierry and his wife Gaby were not among the guests who witnessed the beautiful Valentino-dressed bride make her vows.
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Uncles Alexander Onassis. His former spokesman in Athens, Alexis Mantheakis, however, insisted that the complicated ownership of the building and the leases held on it did not make it a good investment at the time.
Friction between Roussel and the board continued to grow until Roussel took legal action to have its members dismissed—a battle that was chronicled in a November article in this magazine.
Lawsuits abounded in Greece and Switzerland, and charges and countercharges flew. Roussel has accused the group of mismanagement, defamation, and even trying to kidnap Athina. That incident occurred in , when the British bodyguards assigned to the girl in Switzerland realized that they were being shadowed by men they identified as former Israeli commandos.
Nevertheless, the experience left Athina feeling threatened and vulnerable, even at home and on her way to school. Relatives and friends say that she lived in fear that someone would kidnap her, and that that is why she cowered during any appearance in public and constantly clutched at her father. Athina had been awaiting that 18th birthday with trepidation all her life. Growing up, she had become aware of the family schisms, the court battles, the rumors of kidnappings, and threats to her life—all caused by the huge fortune she had inherited.
When she went to Swiss public schools with her blond half-siblings or rode her beloved horse, Arco de Valmont, she was always under scrutiny. All Athina seemed to want was to be invisible and to see an end to the fighting over her millions. No money, no problem. Within days, however, her father had taken control of it. He managed to obtain power of attorney from his daughter, which gave him authority to supervise her estate.
I asked to see the letters or to have Roussel provide a written statement formally making that assertion, but neither was forthcoming. A year before she turned 18, Athina, in a dramatic move for such a dependent child, left her home outside Geneva and moved to Brussels to pursue her passion for riding.
She enrolled at a school run by the renowned Brazilian equestrian Nelson Pessoa, where, her friends say, she met Alvaro de Miranda Neto, the Brazilian Olympic show jumper whose team had won bronze medals in Sydney in and in Atlanta in What she did not know at first was that Alvaro had long been involved with a Brazilian model close to his own age named Sibele Dorsa, with whom he had a baby daughter named Viviane.
Sibele had grown tired of living in Brussels and returned to Brazil with the stated intention of joining the cast of the Brazilian version of the TV show Big Brother. Our only problem was money, and Doda is useless with money.
What he earns, he spends. He is a charismatic, persuasive man. She will hang on his every word, but she will learn, as I have. But Athina had found her first great love, and restrictions on her buying power were the last thing on her mind. She had never been interested in jewelry or couture clothing. Her only extravagance was horses, and the bitterest memory of her childhood, according to one friend, was when her father refused to give her half a million dollars to buy a champion horse she had her heart set on.
In the first rush of love, the couple led a simple life in Brussels, going to films and inexpensive restaurants, spending most of their time in grueling training sessions. Ricardo Lemos, who is noted for making Brazilian women thong-ready.
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