The Greek tabloid newspaper Espresso reported that the two parties had reached an agreement which left the year-old Athina with her fortune mostly intact. Neither she nor Doda attended the legal proceedings in person, being represented by their lawyers.
Mantheakis, the former Onassis-Roussel family spokesman and adviser, first met Athina when she was just thirteen years old. He had represented the family in numerous court cases as their only witness. A photo of Onassis expertly topping a jump is featured on their website. No one knows exactly how much Athina Onassis is worth, after her divorce and the financial upheavals of the past year.
See all the latest news from Greece and the world at Greekreporter. Contact our newsroom to report an update or send your story, photos and videos. Follow GR on Google News and subscribe here to our daily email! GR News. Greek News. All Archaeology Art Charity Crime. 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. When Athina called me last November, she seemed highly agitated.
Are you saying he criticized Doda to you? What did he say exactly? When I told her that I had not talked to her father directly and had not therefore personally heard his opinion of Alvaro, she seemed relieved, said that she had to take another call, and promised to phone me back.
She never did. Not only did Roussel warn Athina about omnipresent dangers—especially Greeks—he also demanded complete and unquestioning obedience. She has told friends that she was so frightened of angering her only surviving parent that his frequent outbursts devastated her. The hard edge Roussel shows at times has not gone unnoticed even by his most ardent supporters.
Despite her difficulties with her father, however, Athina loves him and continues to crave his approval. At the height of their difficulties last year, she wanted to give him half her fortune just to end the dispute, but Alvaro and her lawyers talked her out of it, according to a source close to the negotiations. Like her mother, Athina decided not to pursue a university education, choosing instead to go to riding school in Belgium at the age of In , two years after Christina died and Roussel took the three-year-old girl to live with them, Gaby and Thierry were married, and Athina, Erik, and Sandrine were attendants at the wedding.
Later the couple had a second daughter, Johanna, who is now The settlement Athina made with her father reportedly includes generous amounts for her step-siblings and her stepmother. Throughout her childhood, Athina was on a firm schedule and a small allowance, enrolled at local public schools, and indulged only by being allowed to pursue her passion for horses which is shared by Sandrine. Gaby, who comes from a middle-class Swedish family, got Athina interested in animals and the environment.
A file image of Athina Onassis left, with her former husband, Brazilian, Alvaro de Miranda Neto, at show jumping event in Switzerland in After 11 years of marriage and more than a year of legal wrangling over claims worth hundreds of millions of dollars, Athina Onassis has finally divorced her Brazilian husband Alvaro de Miranda Neto Doda. The Greek tabloid newspaper Espresso reported that the divorce was finalised in a Belgian court after the two parties reached an agreement which leaves the year-old granddaughter of Aristotle Onassis with her fortune largely intact.
Neither party attended the proceedings, and they were represented by their lawyers. Ms Onassis, also a competitive show jumper, married Mr De Miranda in
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