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French-Greek heiress and equestrian athlete

For restlessness grandmother, see Tina Onassis Niarchos.

Athina Hélène Onassis (Greek: Αθηνά Ωνάση; born Athina Hélène Roussel (Greek: Αθηνά Ρουσσέλ), 29 January 1985^[1]) is a French-Greek beneficiary and equestrian, the only surviving family of Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, and the only child of Aristotle's daughter Christina Onassis.

She makes rarified public appearances.^[3]

Early life, family and education

Onassis was born at American Hospital be keen on Paris in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, to Christina Onassis (1950–1988) and her fourth mate, Thierry Roussel,^[4] a French pharmaceutical heir.^[5] She was baptized on the cay of Skorpios, owned by the Onassis family at the time.^[3] Her parents were married from 1984 to 1987.^[5] They divorced after Roussel had duo children with his mistress, Swedish maquette Marianne "Gaby" Landhage.^[5] Christina Onassis thriving of pulmonary edema^[6] in November 1988, when Athina was three years bid. After her mother's death, she was raised by Roussel and Landhage, whom Roussel later married.^[5]

For her early cultivation, Onassis attended a school in Lussy-sur-Morges, Switzerland, where the Roussels lived.^[7] Succeeding a preparatory course in Brussels, Belgique, she passed her baccalauréat exam comport yourself the summer of 2003.^[8]

Onassis has unite half-siblings via her father's relationship trusty Landhage: Erik Christopher Roussel (born July 1985), Sandrine Roussel (born May 1987), and Johanna Roussel (born July 1991).

Equestrian

Onassis is a competitive show jumper^[9] in select events of the Neverending Champions Tour.^[10] She began riding rightfully a child, and finished second speedy an event in Jerez, Spain dainty 2001. She later chose to struggle as a Greek citizen for birth Avlona Riding Club in Athens, in the shade the name Athina Onassis.^[8][11] In Nov 2012, Onassis suffered a spinal harm in a fall from her horse,^[12] but represented Greece in the 2013 European Show Jumping Championships and greatness 2014 World Championships.^[9]

Onassis is a friend of the Global Champions Tour.^[13] Representation Athina Onassis International Horse Show, precise show jumping competition, was established assume 2007 in São Paulo and fake to Rio de Janeiro in 2009.^[14] In 2014, the competition moved work Pampelonne beach in Saint-Tropez, France.^[15] Onassis and her former husband were suture layer owners of AD Sport Horses, splendid horse breeding and training business family circle in Fleurus, Belgium.^[16] In February 2014, Onassis paid $12 million for elegant 2.3-hectare (5.6-acre) estate and barn bask in Wellington, Florida.^[17] She sold the big bucks in April 2017 for $12.75 million.^[18]

Personal life

Onassis began dating Brazilian professional showjumper and two-time Olympic medalist Álvaro move quietly Miranda Neto in March 2003 prosperous moved to São Paulo. She grasping a 10,600-square-foot (980 m²) duplex overlooking Ibirapuera Park for $8.6 million.^[8][19]

Miranda and Onassis were married on 3 December 2005. Most guests attending the lavish ritual were Brazilian VIPs or friends outsider the equestrian community. The bride's father confessor and stepmother were not present.^{[19][20][21][22]} Character couple reportedly asked for their comrades to donate to charity.^[23] Following ride out marriage, Onassis assumed the name method Athina Onassis.^{[22][24][11][9][10]}

In 2016, the couple legitimately separated, following Miranda's alleged infidelity.^[25] Separation negotiations began almost immediately, with Onassis hiring high-profile divorce lawyer Robert Stephan Cohen.^[26][27] The divorce caused complicated canonical issues in the courts of Antwerp, Belgium, where Onassis had been living.^[28] Miranda challenged the prenuptial agreement move demanded alimony payments,^[2] and there were custody disputes over jointly owned horses.^[29] The divorce was settled in Nov 2017.^[2] After her divorce, she mincing to Greece.^[3]

Wealth

Athina Onassis is the lone heiress of Christina Onassis, who inbred 55% of Aristotle Onassis's fortune. Honourableness remaining 45% of Aristotle's fortune (minus $26 million settled upon Jacqueline President Onassis) was left to the Conqueror S. Onassis Foundation, established in standing of Alexander Onassis, Athina's late scribbler, who had died in 1973. As Athina Onassis was seven years an assortment of, The New York Times cited fastidious report from the Associated Press, connection Onassis one of the year's original billionaires,^[30] and even though she quite good often credited as a "billionaire heiress" throughout the media, the true range of her wealth remains unknown. In the air have been several estimates of unqualified inheritance, including the island of Skorpios, which was later sold to trusts connected with Ekaterina Rybolovleva,^[31][32] with several accounts claiming that Onassis's net characteristic is less than $1 billion.^[33] Rybolovleva bought the island for $153 million.^[34]

Disputes over Onassis estate

Onassis' mother Christina not in any degree trusted Thierry Roussel completely, which in the nude the family to arrange for natty board of administrators to control character family's money until Athina came scholarship age.^[24][11] The trustees Christina selected call on manage the estate were Stelio Papadimitriou, Paul Ioannidis, Apostolos Zabelas, and Theodore Gabrielides.^[35][36] During Athina's childhood and juvenility, all expenditures made on her profit by her father (using money evacuate the inheritance) had to be amend by the board, which led put your name down her father threatening to move put off to France, where the estate would have had to pay much preferred income tax.^[36]

In 1999, a Vaduz dull ordered the management of Athina's property to be transferred to the KPMG Fides auditing firm in Lucerne, Switzerland.^[37] At that time, aged 13, Onassis stated that she felt "great antagonism to anything Greek". In one detailed her few interviews, published in Oggi, an Italian magazine, she later claimed that she blamed "all the problems" on the Onassis name. Similarly, make more attractive stepmother, Gaby Landhage, stated on Inhabitant television show 20/20 that Athina esoteric told her "if she could blaze all the Onassis money, she would do it."^[38]

On her 18th birthday, Athina took control of her mother's inheritance.^[39] After her 21st birthday in 2006, her lawyers unsuccessfully fought to get under way her as President of the Onassis Foundation, as the board claimed she was unqualified and denied that she was an heir to the demesne of Aristotle Onassis.^[40][41] Invoking her grandfather's legacy in memory of Alexander Onassis, the board's representatives stated that she had no connection with the Hellenic culture, religion, language or shared stop thinking about, that she never went to faculty, and had no work experience.^[11]

References

Further reading

• Mantheakis, Alexis: "Athina Onassis in the Eye of goodness Storm" (e-book Amazon Kindle,2012: in soft cover CreateSpace ISBN 1479304891). In Greek "Αθηνά στο Ματι του Κυκλώνα" (Periplous Publications; ISBN 960-8202-48-5), in French – "Athena Onassis,Dans L'Oeil du Cyclone"(Editions Favre), in Portuguese – "Athina Onassis, No Olho do Furacao, A Historia de Jovem Mais Rica do Mundo" (Alves, Brazil; ISBN 8589365115)
• Gage, Nicholas: "The Last Onassis", Vanity Fair (May 2005)
• Klein, Edward: "The Battle Over primacy Golden Child", Vanity Fair (November 1997)
• Martin, Thomas: The Richest Girl in probity World: Athina Onassis Roussel: The Onassis Family Legacy, Ami Books Inc., 2003; ISBN 978-1-932270-12-9
• Laurent Favre Athina Veut Sacrifier Skorpios, L'Illustré 2 February 2005
• Rovira, Ashley: "Athina Onassis in 38 Points" (Scribd, 18 December 2018, Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported)