While raised with an abundance of wealth, it is also said that Christina grew up without much attention from either of her parents and was often looked after by servants.
She was diagnosed with clinical depression at the age of Onassis also became addicted to prescribed sleeping pills and was reportedly hospitalised for overdosing in the s. As public interest in her family grew, Christina became increasingly determined to make her own waves.
She defied her father, as Aristotle wished for her to wed Peter Goulandris, a young man who also belonged to a Greek shipping clan.
Instead, in she married millionaire American builder Joseph Bolker when she was only 20 years old, with Bolker 27 years her senior. Unfortunately, her success was overshadowed by lingering pain and tumult. She ended up marrying 4 times and within a month period, Onassis lost her entire immediate family. 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. An assistant of Dr. Ten months later Athina and Alvaro were vacationing in Uruguay at Punta del Este, where they reportedly spent four days in the presidential suite of the Conrad resort and casino.
The heiress, who also speaks French, English, and Swedish, is said to have the same facility for languages that her grandfather had. Aristotle Onassis spoke six. Then she began looking for a house to buy. At first, Kotronakis says, they considered marrying on Skorpios, where her grandfather wed Jacqueline Kennedy 37 years ago. A skeleton staff of 10 live on the island, keeping it always ready in case Athina should decide to visit—something that has happened only four times during the last 17 years, the most recent in At the suggestion of Kotronakis, they are considering having a Greek Orthodox priest as well as a Catholic prelate.
Alvaro and Thierry Roussel were both born into Roman Catholic families. Gaby and her three children are Protestant. When she learned that her father had tied her purse strings, a flash of the famous Onassis temper, frequently displayed by her mother and her grandfather, burst out.
Athina demanded an accounting of her assets, and the information she received from her father did not satisfy her, according to sources close to the principals in the case. A team of lawyers headed by senior partner Nick Pearson moved immediately in Chancery Court to nullify the power of attorney that Athina had unwittingly given her father and to try to freeze her assets.
Neither law firm would confirm or deny anything about the case. Athina, meanwhile, knowing what a scene would ensue if she showed up in Athens to watch her lover compete, kept strategically out of sight in Belgium. He looked around to see if there were any photographers nearby, then smiled sheepishly, signed his name as requested, and quickly walked away.
This was supposed to be refined and drafted over the next month, and both sides were scheduled to meet in October and sign it, but Roussel failed to appear. The struggle with her father took its toll on Athina. She continued to talk to Roussel on the telephone, but their conversations often became acrimonious, one friend says. Athina Onassis, the last surviving descendant of Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis, is the daughter of Christina Onassis, who died at the age of 37 after a life filled with excess of every kind.
The sole surviving Onassis her uncle Alexandros having died in an airplane accident in , Onassis seems, like her grandfather and her mother, to have been singled out for a life of difficulty, in many ways, despite her riches. Her father, 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 procedures just eight months later. Athina was only three years of age when her mother Christina passed away of a pulmonary edema.
She was then shuttled off to live with her father and his girlfriend — whom he had been having an affair with 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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