Daughter of Aristotle Onassis. The granddaughter of the legendary Aristotle Onassis wants to get rid of her billions, believing that they are cursed
At the beginning of April, the entire sports elite of world show jumping gathered in Doha (Qatar). The reason for this was the first stage of the prestigious world series of tournaments, the Global Champions Tour, in which only the best athletes according to the FEI rating are invited to participate. Looking at the pre-start bustle on the battlefield, you may not even notice the thin, fair-haired girl walking along the field in white breeches and a sleeveless shirt, learning the route. But this seemingly unremarkable girl still attracts the attention of the public. She is an ordinary participant in the tournament, but at the same time she is the 27-year-old patroness of the Global Champions Tour and its main sponsor, but this is not the main thing, because the name of this girl is Athena Onassis de Miranda, and she is the only heiress of the Greek tycoon Aristotle Onassis and the richest woman in the world.
Damn idyll
Today Athena lives in Belgium, where she trains with her husband, Brazilian show jumper Alvaro Miranda Neto (nicknamed Doda), winner of the Sydney Olympic bronze in the team event. Together with their two children, they come every day to the stables of their mutual friends, the Pessoa family, and ride the best horses owned by Athena, AD Sport Horses. It would seem that this is family happiness - love, prosperity and a favorite business, but why is this family never ignored by all the paparazzi of the world? It's all about the legacy of the Onassis clan, whose fabulous wealth passed into the hands of Athena, coupled with a family curse.
The last of the Onassis line
Athena Onassis is the daughter of Christina Onassis from her last marriage to Frenchman Thierry Roussel. The Onassis family has never been an example of chastity, so Christina’s next marriage turned into a tragedy. After Athena's birth, it became known that her father continued to date his former flame, Swedish model Gabi Landhange. Moreover, Gabi entered into a contract with Roussel, according to which, even being married to someone else, Thierry is obliged to continue his relationship with this Swede, and at the same time with Athena, another child of Thierry was born in Switzerland. Christina could not stand such a nightmare and left, taking her daughter, and began taking drugs again (she suffered from this addiction even before meeting Roussel). And in 1988, when Aristotle Onassis’s granddaughter Athena was three years old, Christina committed suicide by swallowing diet pills. And the two-faced Roussel took his daughter to his place in Switzerland and began to seek the opportunity to become Athena’s guardian and, accordingly, the manager of the fortune awaiting her.
Merciless Aris
There is a belief that a curse was imposed on the Onassis family, and this opinion has been repeatedly confirmed - everyone who even slightly “touched” the wealth of the “Onassis empire” died or suffered from severe blows of fate. It all started with the famous Greek Aristotle Onassis, who laid the foundation of the “empire”, gave birth to the family and brought the wrath of fate upon the family. Aristotle Onassis was married twice and had countless mistresses. The first marriage of the future billionaire was his most profitable deal, because his wife was Athena (Tina) Livanos, the daughter of a shipping magnate. She was 18, he was 40. For young Athena, this marriage meant everything: the end of a carefree girlhood, a completely new life, obligations until the grave. For the rootless upstart Aristotle, only one thing was important: he made a profitable business move - he took as his wife not only the richest Greek woman, but also a representative of an ancient and respected family.
Who brought the wrath of fate?
Athena gave birth to her husband two children: a boy, Alexander, and a girl, Christina. But the Onassis’ family life went downhill miserably: the temperamental Aris easily started affairs on the side, acquiring women “at a reasonable price,” like beautiful toys. And two years after the wedding, the couple practically did not communicate. They officially divorced in 1960, and the place of “first lady of the Onassis empire” was immediately taken by opera diva Maria Callas. For several years the legendary singer was Onassis's mistress. Aris was her god. If he casually noticed that she should lose weight, the singer immediately went on a severe diet. He insisted that she leave her husband - and she left her devoted husband. For the sake of her love, she even abandoned the child: abortion in the seventh month is absolutely illegal and immoral, but Aristotle used all his influence, gave a large bribe - and the child was gone. Callas, in love, was ready to forgive Onassis even this, if not for the treachery of the billionaire. Aris broke up with the opera diva suddenly, without explanation. Just one day, the next day after a traditionally stormy date, Maria opened the newspaper and read: “Wedding of the century! Billionaire Onassis married Kennedy's widow! For her, this was a blow to the heart. “I curse you and all your women!” - in the heat of the moment she threw at the traitor’s back.
From that moment on, a belief began to spread about a curse imposed on the Onassis family. In 1973, Aristotle's son Alexander Onassis crashed in a plane. Then Aristotle's ex-wife Tina Livanos died, and Maria Callas lost her unique voice and sank into oblivion. The tycoon himself died in 1975. The weight of billions fell on the shoulders of Christina, the only surviving daughter of the tycoon.
Princess of Khrushchev
After Aris forced Maria Callas to get rid of the child and included a clause in the marriage contract with Jackie Kennedy, according to which she did not have the right to give birth to children from him, Christina became not just her father’s favorite, but the center of his attention and bathed in luxury from childhood, however This did not make her happy. By the time she came of age, she had already tried to commit suicide - after a break with her lover, Petros Goulandris, initiated by her father, and, apparently, under the corrupting influence of wealth. And in 1971, at the age of 18, Christina ran away from home with Joseph Bolker, a 48-year-old divorced real estate salesman from Los Angeles. Joseph had four adult children, and when his daughter told Aristotle about the wedding by telephone, he immediately disinherited her. Nine months later, Christina's marriage to Joseph broke up, and Christina herself again attempted suicide. But the sudden death of her father made her the sole heir and forced her to take control of the fund into her own hands.
In search of happiness, Christina married Alexandros Andreadis, the heir of wealthy entrepreneurs. A year later, the marriage was dissolved. A Russian official (and, according to some sources, a KGB agent), 40-year-old, bald and with a sideways eye, Sergei Kauzov, became her third husband. They met during telephone conversations regarding the transportation of Russian oil. The tycoon’s daughter moved to Moscow and settled in a small apartment, in one of the Khrushchev buildings on Protopopovsky Lane, with Sergei and his mother. The Greek woman’s relationship with her Russian husband began to deteriorate after a few days. Married life lasted only sixteen months. When leaving, Christina gave Sergei two tankers.
Even these 2 tankers brought a lot of grief into Kauzov’s life. Sergei’s new marriage concluded after his divorce from Kristina (and Kristina was Kauzov’s second wife) also turned out to be short-lived. As for his first wife named Natalya and their daughter Katya, whom he abandoned for the sake of the rich beauty Christina, their fate was also touched by evil fate. First, the Onassis' money took their husband and father away from them, and then Natalya's new husband left her, marrying his own stepdaughter, Katya!
Is childhood the best time?
How much suffering did Athena Onassis endure? At the age of 3, she lost her mother and overnight became the center of everyone's attention, being the owner of a huge fortune. Her own father and the Greek attorneys appointed by Christina immediately began to fight for her inheritance. Athena spent her childhood and adolescence in the company of dozens of bodyguards in well-guarded fortified houses and armored cars; they tried to kidnap her more than once for ransom. In 1997, Athena’s person again found herself at the center of a serious international scandal. Her father's house was under surveillance and infrared cameras were placed everywhere. The investigation established that the spies are directly related to the Israeli detective agency. They were hired by the Onassis Foundation to collect dirt on the Roussel family. By court decision, an international audit company was entrusted with managing Athens’s fortune.
A difficult childhood affected Athena’s character. The girl grew up quiet, withdrawn and superstitious. She took her father's surname and renounced the inheritance in order to protect herself from the family curse. It was her father who bought her the first horse, and it was in these noble animals that little Athena found a real outlet, because horses will never betray, even in such a cruel world as this.
We still need money!
It would seem that the fatal chain of tragedies has been interrupted, but who can refuse billions of inheritance without remorse? In January 2003, 18-year-old Athena Onassis-Rousselle was finally overtaken by the family's fabulous funds: the first 600 million from her grandfather's fabulous inheritance were transferred to her account. And the ghost of the curse arose again from oblivion. Young Athena, who in her youth had so zealously rejected this condition, changed her mind and not only entered into inheritance rights, but in court won them from the leadership of the Onassis Foundation. And she didn’t stop there - at the age of 21, Athena began a new process for the right to inherit the fortune of her uncle, Alexander. And this happened for a reason. She was inspired to financial exploits by love...
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Athena's Legacy:
- investments in 87 companies
- deposits in 217 banks around the world
- real estate in Athens, New York, Paris, Acapulco
- Skorpios island
- numerous jewelry
- works of art from Rodin to the Impressionists
- 33 tons of gold bars
Love of Athena Onassis
Since childhood, horses have helped Athena compensate for all the psychological trauma inflicted on her by countless family scandals and excessive attention from the press and ill-wishers. Equestrian sport has become for Athena something where you don’t have to be afraid that you will be set up or deceived, because horses are the most honest animals. And it was the horses that determined her fate in her personal life. During the Sydney Olympics, Athena Onassis met Brazilian show jumper Alvaro Miranda Neto. A young millionaire fell passionately in love with a Brazilian. The situation was overshadowed by the fact that Alvaro was 11 years older than the girl and... tied by marriage. However, this did not become an obstacle: in order to marry Athena, the athlete divorced, leaving his wife with two children - their common daughter and son from a previous marriage. “He doesn’t love her, he married her money! - Alvaro’s offended ex-wife, Playboy model, singer and soap opera actress Sibylla Dorsa, exclaimed in the press. “Alvaro loves skinny blondes, and about this black-haired Greek woman he always told me that she was fat and scary!”
Well, madly in love, Athena dreamed so much of finally finding simple female happiness and a strong shoulder that she solved this problem: for the wedding, she lost 20 kg and lightened her hair. She even acquired ownership of the horse-breeding company AD Sport Horses so that her lover could show his talents on the best top-class horses, because his fighting partner, a stallion named Aspen Joten, left the big sport due to his age (born in 1985).
The abandoned Dorsa did not stop in her fury and, in another impulse, sent her two children to Belgium to live with her ex-husband, justifying the lack of time to raise them. But even such a burden that suddenly fell on Athena’s shoulders did not become a burden. The young rider knew from her own example how difficult it was to live without parents, and what was even worse - to be the subject of controversy and scandals. She accepted the children and is raising them as family, taking the boy to football training every day and introducing the girl to equestrian sports.
Athena Onassis married Alvaro de Miranda Neto in 2005 in the garden of the Museum of Art in San Paolo. Before formalizing the relationship, the young people lived together for two years. The wedding ceremony was as luxurious as it was secret, and the only reporter who entered the celebration as a waiter was caught and stripped of his equipment.
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Athena wedding
place - garden of the Museum of Art in Sao Paulo
bride's dress - from Valentino for 96 thousand dollars
religious moment - 2 priests: from the Greek Orthodox Church and from the Catholic
number of guests - 750 persons
for guests - 1000 bottles of collection champagne
for the bride - a mini operating room on duty with blood supplies of the same type as the bride's
security - 1000 guards, 2 helicopters
security - 6 “security gates”, identification bracelets
What is this - a happy ending? End of the curse? After all, it would seem that Athena has found her happiness: she is doing what she loves - horses - she can realize her sporting ambitions, contributing to the success of her beloved husband, and is in a comfortable and familiar equestrian family. Moreover, in order to rid herself of evil fate, Athena began to sell her inheritance - the island of Skorpios (where Jacqueline Kennedy was married and Alexander, Christina and Aristotle Onassis were buried) was sold to Giorgio Armani, real estate and works of art were put up for auction. But the family curse does not make concessions, and the next shock was the suicide of Sibylla Dorsa, who, under the influence of drugs, jumped out of a hotel window. And this is at the same time that Athena put up another family jewels for auction! Here the press world stirred up with a vengeance, placing blame on Athena for everything: from the destruction of the marriage and the death of Sibylla to the “trade in damned things.” Athena completely withdrew into herself, protected herself from journalists by categorically refusing interviews, began to be afraid of new people and no longer went beyond the familiar narrow circle of friends - horsemen, among whom were such stars as Rodrigo Pessoa, Jan and Edwina Alexander-Tops.
On November 19, 1988, at the age of 37, the richest woman in the world, Christina Onassis, died. 10 years earlier, she settled on Bezbozhny Lane in Moscow, next to the Prospekt Mira metro station.
Aristotle, who completed only six school years, created his own life, turning from a port dispatcher into the richest man on the planet. Onassis collected women like diamonds, but only four left a serious mark on his life: his first wife (from 1946 to 1960), Athena Livanos, the only one with whom he had children in common (a son and a daughter); the brilliant opera singer Maria Callas, who lost her voice in 1968 after learning about Aristotle’s second marriage to John F. Kennedy’s widow, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, and his daughter Christina, whom he spoiled all his life, naming his yacht after her—in fact, a floating residence.
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Onassis's pride and hope was his son Alexander, but he died in 1973 when his plane crashed during takeoff. The tragedy broke Aristotle, and he slowly faded away for two years, turning into a ruin. His daughter was with him all this time.
Christina became the heir to a huge financial empire spread across all continents. After her father’s death, she didn’t even have an exact idea of what she owned; she only accumulated 33 tons of gold bars.
The life of this woman is reminiscent of an ancient Greek epic with its constant attributes: love, betrayal, tragic coincidences, betrayals, disappointments and experiences, short-term happiness and prolonged depression.
Already at the age of eighteen, Christina, to spite her parents, married a 48-year-old American Jew, Joseph Bolker. The angry father threatened to disinherit her if the marriage was not annulled. The newlyweds lived together for 9 months and eventually divorced. At the same time, Christina tried to commit suicide for the first time.
The attempt failed, and Christina continued to fight the loneliness she feared most, plunging headlong into partying. However, the chosen remedy turned out to be ineffective. It was during this period that all her loved ones died, first her brother and mother, and then her father.
To cope with the management of gigantic capital, Christina needed male support, and she hastened to marry the rich man Alexandros Andreadis. However, this marriage also turned out to be short-lived and lasted only a year.
The third attempt to arrange a personal life turned out to be the most controversial and curious. Christina Onassis's chosen one turned out to be Russian - Sovfracht official Sergei Kauzov.
They began an affair that no one suspected. Therefore, the news of the marriage was a surprise to everyone, especially since in order to marry Christina, Sergei had to urgently divorce his first wife. There were rumors that Christina simply bought her future husband from her wife for a very substantial sum
Despite all Kristina’s attempts to settle down in Moscow, their life was not successful, since Kristina was unable to get used to Soviet reality. She returned to Europe and two years later they separated completely.
Christina's fourth marriage also failed. Her new husband, French businessman Thierry Roussel, whom she loved and to whom she gave birth to a daughter, Athena, betrayed her feelings by cheating on Christina with his former mistress, the Swede Gabi Landhange, who also bore him a child.
She returned to her former wild life of parties and drugs and arrived in Buenos Aires in 1988, rumored to be getting married for the fifth time. However, she was found dead in the bathroom of her friend's house.
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Recently, Greek newspapers have been writing a lot about the granddaughter and only heiress of the famous Greek shipowner Aristotle Onassis, young Athina and her “Brazilian” love. However, at one time they wrote even more about her mother Christina Onassis and her “Soviet” love
Western media wrote a lot about this incredible marriage; huge photographs of the newlyweds adorned the front pages of the world's largest newspapers and magazines.
They say that Christina met Kauzov first by telephone. She spoke from Paris, where the office of her company Olympicmaritim, inherited from her father, was located with the Moscow representative office of Sovfracht on business - the lease of its tankers for oil transportation by the Soviet side. For the USSR, which was then just beginning to enter the world oil markets, such negotiations were extremely important. At the other end of the line, Sergei picked up the phone and the young woman - Kristina was 27 years old at the time - really liked, as she later recalled, his “pleasant voice” and impeccable English pronunciation.
They soon met in Paris, where Kauzov was sent to conduct business negotiations. Sergei Danilovich was 37 years old when he met the billionaire. The man, as they say, is in the prime of his strength and talents. But because it could be surprising that an affair could begin between him and Christina? However, we remind the reader that in those still harsh times, any contacts of Soviet citizens with foreigners were strictly controlled. And there was no question that a fellow employee, a party member, could meet with a foreigner on his own initiative and without the knowledge of his superiors.
Christina immediately liked Kauzov. He was a little shorter than her and was already beginning to go bald, but Christina herself was by no means Marilyn Monroe. This is how one of her then acquaintances described her appearance: “I would not call a Greek beauty a beauty: above average height, thin, with underdeveloped breasts, short hair. Only the big dark eyes attracted attention.”
Kauzov was already married and had a daughter. Which is not surprising: in those days unmarried people were not allowed to go on business trips abroad at all. What attracted the billionaire to Kauzov? After all, he couldn’t be called handsome either. One of his eyes was slightly squinted, and his mouth was full of metal teeth. Sharp-tongued Western newspapermen dubbed him “a KGB agent with a glass eye.” However, the Moscow employee probably had some special masculine charm that attracted women. Even experienced ones and even people like the Greek billionaire, who already had two husbands before Kauzov.
They say that Kauzova finally managed to win the heart of the wayward Kristina when, having signed a successful contract with Sovfracht, she offered Sergei Danilovich a large sum of bonuses, but he categorically refused. “What nobility!” - Christina decided and fell head over heels in love. Naive billionaire! If she had known that any Soviet foreign worker would have done the same in those days: for receiving currency from foreigners “on an especially large scale” in the USSR they could have been shot...
After their first meeting in Paris, their meetings became constant, sometimes, as reporters from Western tabloid newspapers excitedly wrote, they spent whole days and nights together. Of course, since the newspapers wrote about this, Kauzov’s superiors were well aware of such meetings. At that time, just one such “unauthorized” rendezvous in a Paris hotel was enough for a Soviet employee to be immediately sent home and never appear abroad again. However, for some reason this did not happen with Kauzov. Not only did he continue to date Christina, but he was even allowed to marry her.
This could be explained at that time in only two ways. Either Kauzov was a KGB officer specially assigned to Kristina, or the KGB, having noticed an affair between a fellow employee and a billionaire, decided to “develop” this connection in the “interests of the state.” At least, that’s how the CIA regarded this marriage - as an attempt by the KGB to establish control over the Onassis shipping empire.
As the newspapers wrote, agents of French intelligence and the CIA were constantly on duty near Christina Onassis’s apartment in Paris and the hotels where the lovers spent their nights. They tried to put pressure on the Greek woman through her friends to prevent the marriage. But Christina inherited from her father his stubborn character and complete disregard for the opinions of others. She herself laughingly explained her extraordinary passion to her friends: “Russian, communist, KGB representative - so many forbidden fruits in one basket, who could resist?”
Kauzov divorced his wife and in August 1978 a sensational marriage was registered in the central wedding palace of Moscow. There were only a few people present at the ceremony from the groom's side, and no one from the bride's side.
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There was also a small scandal. Western paparazzi, who specially arrived in Moscow for this purpose, managed to photograph Kauzov at the moment when, having approached the registry office, he removed the windshield wipers from his brand new Volga, as all car owners in Moscow did then. Imagine: a man marries a billionaire and a few minutes before the wedding does not forget about the “janitors”!
After a honeymoon spent on Lake Baikal, the young couple settled in Moscow. How did Onassis’s daughter, accustomed to luxury, feel there? “Yes, it was not the Winter Palace,” Christina later admitted to her Western friends. Of course, she did not stay long in the capital of “mature socialism”, but soon returned to Paris. For some time, the husband and wife continued to meet and made plans for the future. Kauzov even began working in the Paris office of her company.
However, Christina Onassis did not feel so bad in Moscow, despite the unobtrusive Soviet service. For example, she really liked the Moscow markets and especially liked Russian cottage cheese. In addition, she was pleased that no one would recognize her on the Moscow streets. However, soon there was a cooling between the spouses and they separated without living together for even a year and a half.
Remaining in the West after his divorce from Christina, Sergei Danilovich settled permanently in London and married for the third time. This time on the Englishwoman Alison Harkes, the former mistress of the British Minister of Defense. Ladies, as we see, with very specific connections. Need I say that this marriage also did not last long?
A secret note from KGB head Viktor Chebrikov to Mikhail Gorbachev was published: “Using the financial assistance and influence of K. Onassis, S.D. Kauzov founded several of his own companies, taking ownership of ten ships in whole or in part, and concentrated in his hands a capital of 25 million dollars, of which he deposited 3 million in accounts in Swiss and London banks. Since July 1982, S.D. Kauzov, in accordance with the agreement concluded with him, transferred a large amount of foreign currency as his party contribution, which allowed him to remain in the ranks of the CPSU. So far he has transferred $450,000.”
The fate of Christina Onassis was tragic. In November 1988, sad news did not come from Buenos Aires. Newspapers wrote that the billionaire died of a drug overdose.
Christina was quietly buried in the family crypt along with her father and brother Alexander, who died in a plane crash, on the island of Skorpios in the Aegean Sea, which her father gave her.
Sergei Kauzov did not lay claim to her inheritance and did not even come to the funeral.
During her marriage to Kauzov, Kristina transferred about $500 thousand to the CPSU funds.
Mr. Kauzov lives in Switzerland. His mother also lives there.
Having married for the first time in 1978, I financially supported a student family in a fairly common way at that time - by sweeping two janitors' plots along Bezbozhny (now Protopopovsky Lane). Fortunately, we lived a hundred meters from him in an old, pre-revolutionary house.
Not long before this, the construction of 4 fourteen-story residential buildings of the CPSU Central Committee was completed in the alley. The audience there was varied - artists, athletes, and, of course, bosses.
The most extravagant was the tenant from the 14th house - the general secretary of the Communist Party of Chile, Luis Corvalan, exchanged for the dissident Bukovsky. There was a well-known indecent couplet about him rumored to be attributed to Vysotsky:
They exchanged Corvalan for a simple hooligan,
Where can I find such a b...d to replace Brezhnev?
Corvalan often walked around the area with his daughters and a small motley group of women. Fortunately, behind the TsEK houses there was the botanical garden of Moscow State University (the former apothecary garden of Peter I).
The life of big bosses back then was little different from the life of the director of any store. Not like today. There were few cars in the yards, and there were no garages. Those who were in office rode on official ones.
The Kauzov-Onassis also decided not to stand out and traveled in a Volga. Of course, the housing office knew who was staying, but the janitors always know everything.
On the Internet you come across information about Christina’s life in the Khrushchev. It must be said that there was no better housing than the TsEK houses in Moscow at that time! The old buildings, now once again luxury mansions, were horribly maintained. And often they consisted of only communal apartments.
Bulat Okudzhava, who lived with the Kauzovs in the same house, wrote:
I was evicted from Arbat, an Arbat emigrant.
In Bezbozhny Lane my talent is withering away.
There are strange faces and hostile places all around.
Although the sauna is opposite, the fauna is not the same.
I was evicted from Arbat and deprived of my past,
and my face is not scary to strangers, but funny...
but he moved to Bezbozhny not under duress, but to improve his living conditions, as they wrote then in applications for a new apartment.
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After Athena's birth, it became known that her father continued to date his former flame, Swedish model Gabi Landhange. Moreover, Gabi entered into a contract with Roussel, according to which, even being married to someone else, Thierry is obliged to continue his relationship with this Swede, and at the same time with Athena, another child of Thierry was born in Switzerland. Christina could not stand such a nightmare and left, taking her daughter, and began taking drugs again. And in 1988, when Aristotle Onassis’s granddaughter Athena was three years old, Christina committed suicide by swallowing diet pills. And the two-faced Roussel took his daughter to his place in Switzerland and began to seek the opportunity to become Athena’s guardian and, accordingly, the manager of the fortune awaiting her.
Athena spent her childhood and adolescence in the company of dozens of bodyguards in well-guarded fortified houses and armored cars; they tried to kidnap her more than once for ransom.
Today Athena lives in Belgium, where she trains with her husband, Brazilian show jumper Alvaro Miranda Neto (nicknamed Doda), winner of the Sydney Olympic bronze in the team event. Together with their two children, they come every day to the stables of their mutual friends, the Pessoa family, and ride the best horses owned by Athena, AD SportHorses.
In January 2003, 18-year-old Athena Onassis-Rousselle was overtaken by the family's fabulous funds: the first 600 million from her grandfather's fabulous inheritance were transferred to her account. Young Athena, who in her youth zealously rejected this condition, changed her mind and not only entered into inheritance rights, but through the courts won them from the management of the Onassis Foundation.
Athena dreamed so much of finding simple female happiness and a strong shoulder that for the wedding she lost 20 kg and lightened her hair. She even purchased the horse-breeding company AD SportHorses so that her lover could show his talents on the best horses.
The abandoned wife of her lover, in a fit of frenzy, sent her two children to Belgium to live with her ex-husband, justifying herself by the lack of time to raise them. But even such a burden that suddenly fell on Athena’s shoulders did not become a burden. She knew from her own example how difficult it was to live without parents, and what was even worse - to be the subject of controversy and scandals. She accepted the children and is raising them as family, taking the boy to football training every day and introducing the girl to equestrian sports.
Athena Onassis married Alvaro de Miranda Neto in 2005 in the garden of the Museum of Art in San Paolo. Before formalizing the relationship, the young people lived together for two years. The wedding ceremony was as luxurious as it was secret, and the only reporter who entered the celebration as a waiter was caught and stripped of his equipment.
The famous billionaire once spent years on the island, his wedding to Jacqueline Kennedy took place there, and now he rests in a small local chapel.
Athena is the sole heiress of the Onassis family and, according to some estimates, the amount of her fortune is equal to 2.5 billion euros, invested in business, real estate, shops, art collections and private jets.
Now the island is empty, no one lives there (the local inhabitants were evicted half a century ago), and a special security service ensures that strangers do not enter the territory of Skorpios. It seems that the Mediterranean paradise has lost its romantic appeal for the 24-year-old heiress when annual payments for its maintenance increased to 1.5 million euros. According to another version, Athena decided to sell the island after the Greek authorities denied her husband, Brazilian Alvaro de Miranda, Greek citizenship. After all, the world is full of billionaires who dream and dream of how to take possession of the legendary island and thereby enter the cohort of not just the richest people on Earth, but also aristocrats in the eyes of history. The price announced for Skorpios - 120 million euros - did not frighten, but attracted, as FashionTravel learned, at least three potential buyers.
The proposal is being seriously considered by Microsoft founder Bill Gates, our domestic capitalist Roman Abramovich and Madonna. The singer is not as concerned about the status of the owner of such pretentious real estate as the opportunity to get closer to the beautiful love story that happened in 1968 between Aristotle and John F. Kennedy’s widow, Jacqueline Kennedy. After all, the story developed precisely on this picturesque island, although it ended prosaically - in marriage. Meanwhile, the main contender for Skorpios is still considered Bill Gates, who was the first to voice his plans.
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"The sensation of the century! The richest woman in the world is marrying a one-eyed communist! Moscow wants to control Onassis' billions!" In August 1978, the covers of all the leading newspapers on the planet were full of such headlines. Yes, Sergei Danilovich Kauzov was not a handsome man at all - he was short and even somewhat bald. Moreover, one of his eyes was glass, he lost it as a result of some kind of injury. However, the modest Soviet employee exuded a special masculine charm and the strength of a self-confident person.
The world community was in shock: during the harsh years of the Cold War, representatives of not even two polar political systems, but two completely different worlds, entered into legal marriage. Christina Onassis, a multimillionaire, daughter and heiress of the legendary Greek tycoon Aristotle Onassis, and Sergei Kauzov, a member of the CPSU, an employee of the Soviet Ministry of Marine Fleet.
The incredible rise of an inconspicuous and modest Soviet official is still the subject of speculation and gossip. What was it? Love at first sight? The whim of an eccentric rich woman? The Forbidden fruit? A masterly KGB operation?
Their romance began unexpectedly. Once Christina spoke on the phone with Moscow about transporting grain to the USSR by its ships under a contract with the Sovfracht company, the then monopolist in this area in the Soviet Union. The pleasant voice of the interlocutor, speaking impeccable English, attracted her attention. It turned out that his name is Sergei Kauzov, he is an employee of Sovfracht, who is entrusted with conducting business with Greece. Soon the business partners met in Paris. The deal turned out to be so profitable for Onassis that she offered Kauzov a large bonus. He refused and, as they say, it was with this selflessness that he conquered the young woman.
Kristina and Sergey Kauzov
Until the very last moment, no one from the close circle had any idea about this strange romance. The news that Christina was marrying a Russian KGB official took everyone by surprise. Moreover, Sergei had a wife, Natalya, and a daughter, who was seriously ill. Christina allocated a large sum of money to Sergei’s wife, and her daughter a monthly allowance until she came of age. After which Kauzov quickly filed for divorce.
Christina Onassis was born in 1950. Her father, Greek shipowner Aristotle Onassis, was known not only for his fabulous fortune, but also for his affairs with the most famous and beautiful women on the planet. What made the most noise was his love affair with the legendary opera diva Maria Callas, as well as his marriage to the widow of the 35th US President John Kennedy, Jacqueline.
Onassis with his wife Tina and children Christina and Alexander.
Maria Callas and Aristotle Onassis
Jacqueline and Onassis.
According to legend, it was Callas who cursed Onassis’s children when he married Jacqueline Kennedy. Maria Callas loved him madly and sacrificed everything for him: she divorced her husband, quit singing and had an abortion at the insistence of Onassis. But Onassis never married her.
Christina took after her father in her love of love and in the early 70s, against his will, she married the twice-divorced 48-year-old playboy and entrepreneur Joe Bolker. Nevertheless, Aristotle had the most tender feelings for his daughter, named his favorite yacht in her honor, but bequeathed almost all of his fortune to his son Alexander. However, on January 22, 1973, Alexander died in a plane crash. And two years later, Aristotle himself died of a heart attack. According to the will, half a billion dollars of his father's fortune were divided between Christina and the charitable foundation that Aristotle Onassis created in memory of his deceased son Alexander. Jacqueline Kennedy tried to claim the inheritance and, in order to get rid of her stepmother once and for all, Christina gave Jacqueline 25 million dollars.
Christina's second husband was the Greek banker Andreadis. Their marriage was also short-lived.
And here is the third husband - Sergei Kauzov.
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev personally approved of their marriage, and in August 1978 they went on their honeymoon to Lake Baikal.
Christina's life in Moscow was very secret - she spent most of her time in an isolated room at Intourist, specially equipped for her, under the supervision of a bodyguard. Sometimes she visited a modest two-room apartment on Mosfilmovskaya Street - the mother of his new husband lived there, almost the only person who supported this marriage. The couple traveled around Moscow in Sergei's Volga.
At their wedding in the Griboyedovsky registry office, only relatives from the groom’s side were present - not a single acquaintance or friend of Christina showed up - but the doors of the registry office were besieged by Western journalists.
Shortly before the wedding, Sergei was expelled from the party. Christina honestly tried to arrange her and Sergei’s life in Moscow. For example, she bought two floors of a building that she liked in the center of Moscow and even began negotiations with the city authorities about moving the tram line that ran near the building, since she was very annoyed by the noise and rumble. And yet, there were too many problems and Christina gave up.
A couple of weeks later, she escaped from the unusual reality back to Europe. Separation from Sergei exacerbated their feelings and for some time they continued to meet in hotels. But they never had a real family, although in total their marriage lasted about two years.
At one time, she and Kauzov lived on an island in the Aegean Sea, from where Onassis, according to some sources, transferred about 500 thousand dollars to the funds of the CPSU.
The board of directors of the company owned by Christina opposed Kauzov, as a husband, entering the holy of holies of the Onassis empire. Therefore, Christina could only open a bank account in his name.
Later, Sergei Kauzov became a millionaire - Christina gave him several tankers and in the 80s he worked for Interoceanic factore agency Inc in London, part of a group of companies owned by Christina. Sergei married for the third time - to an Englishwoman, Alison Harkes. Sergei’s mother, Maria Sergeevna, also did not stay in Moscow - she sold her apartment and left for France.
The fate of Christina herself was much more tragic. After a series of new novels, in 1983 she married for the fourth time - to the Frenchman Thierry Roussel, and two years later gave birth to a daughter, Athena. Two years later, the couple divorced. And on November 19, 1988, Cristina was found dead in the apartment of her school friend in Buenos Aires. The doctors' conclusion is a heart attack. However, Christina's friend claimed that she died from a drug overdose.
Her daughter and heiress Athena became the owner of a billion-dollar fortune in 2003. She hasn't had much luck in her personal life yet either.
And the famous Soviet son-in-law of the Greek billionaire Aristotle Onassis still has Russian registration. In any “city certificate” you can find out that Sergey Danilovich Kauzov lives in the capital’s Protopopovsky Lane, at house 16. It was in these three-room apartments that he spent his honeymoon with Christina.
Now this apartment is an office.
Sergey Kauzov currently lives in Switzerland. Often happens on Mastic. This is a tiny island of the Caribbean archipelago with a length of only eight kilometers.
A Russian shipowner bought a plot owned by Lord Glenconner, the husband of a lady-in-waiting, Princess Margaret, Queen Elizabeth's younger sister. Kauzov's neighbors are David Bowie and Mick Jagger.
Kauzov settled his daughters from his marriages with Natalya and Alison nearby. Only Christina Onassis was unable to give him a child - and they say that if this had happened, they would never have divorced.
Kauzov did not and does not give interviews to anyone.
FavoritesAthena Onassis is the only surviving descendant of the Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis and the only heir-daughter of Christina Onassis. Athena received 55% of the family's wealth, while the remaining 45%, with the exception of $26 million that went to Aristotle's widow, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, went straight to the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation. founded in honor of Aristotle's late son.
Athena Onassis Roussel, also known as Athena Onassis de Miranda, was born on January 29, 1985, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Athena is the daughter of Christina Onassis and her fourth husband, Thierry Roussel, heir to a pharmaceutical empire. The parents were married from 1984 to 1986. They divorced after Roussel's mistress, Swedish model Marianne "Gabi" Landage, became pregnant for the second time. Athena was three when her mother died of lung cancer in November 1988. The girl was raised by her father and Gabi, who later became Thierry’s wife.
The value of Athena's inherited fortune remains a matter of debate to this day, but she has been dubbed the "billionaire heiress" in the media. Among other things, Onassis got the small island of Skorpios off the west coast of Greece, which was sold to an unnamed Russian billionaire in 2013.
Athena's mother never fully trusted Thierry, which led to an agreement with the Council of Administrators, obligated to control the family savings until Athena turned eighteen. Christina chose four Greeks and Thierry Roussel as trustees who were to manage her daughter’s fortune. In the press the four were often called "Greybeards".
In 1999, when Athena was thirteen, she stated that she felt “a great dislike for anything Greek,” despite her mother being Greek. In one of her few public interviews, published in the Italian magazine Oggi, the heiress blamed the Onassis name for “all the problems.” Moreover, her stepmother Gabi stated in the program “20/20” that Athena once said that if she could burn all the money of the Onassis dynasty, she would do it.
During the grandiose legal battles on the part of Thierry and Christine's attorneys, 65 hearings took place. Both sides accused each other of embezzlement, mismanagement of assets, slander and organizing kidnappings. Athena's father stated that Greek proxies organized at least seven operations aimed at capturing his daughter. One of the attempts allegedly involved current and former employees of the Mossad, Israel's political intelligence agency.
On her eighteenth birthday, Athena began to control half of the family's inheritance. On her 21st birthday, in January 2006, she was unable to take control of the second half of the family fortune or become president of the Onassis Foundation, as originally expected. The foundation's board said it would not hand over its assets to Athena, who they claimed lacked the necessary skills. Her lawyers fought unsuccessfully for Athena's right to sit in the foundation's presidential chair.
The head of the foundation, Stelios Papadimitriou, said: "We are not going to hand over the Onassis Foundation to someone who has no connection with our culture, our religion, our language or our shared experiences, and who has never gone to college or worked a day in "She can do whatever she wants with what she inherited from her mother, but not with the legacy of the Onassis dynasty, donated to the Greek people in memory of Alexander Onassis."
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Athena began dating Brazilian professional show jumper Álvaro de Miranda Neto in March 2003. They got married on December 3, 2005. Neither the bride's father nor stepmother was present at the ceremony. The wife herself began to compete in equestrian competitions, using the name Athena Onassis de Miranda. Now the couple lives in São Paulo, where Athena purchased a duplex with an area of 980 square meters for $8.6 million. m, overlooking Ibirapuera Park, with space for 15 cars.
Athena began her equestrian career in her teenage years. More recently, in an attempt to reconnect with her maternal roots, she expressed her interest in learning Greek and reapplied for a Greek passport. Onassis also decided to compete in all equestrian competitions not for France, but for Greece.
Athena and Alvaro travel a lot every year when the World Champions Tour (jumping) takes place, in which Onassis has the status of official patron. One of the stages of the competition, in Rio de Janeiro, is named after Athena - “Athina Onassis International Horse Show”. The stage was first held in 2007, first in Sao Paulo. In 2009, competitions began to be held in a renovated center in Rio de Janeiro. Together with her husband, Athena owns the company "AD Sport Horses", based in Fleurus.
January 8, 2010, 20:11Christina Onassis was one of the richest women in the world, her fortune was estimated at one billion dollars. But, unfortunately, the huge inheritance left by the Greek shipowner Aristotle Onassis to his daughter did not bring her much happiness. In November 1988, Christina Onassis died under mysterious circumstances at her friend's villa near Buenos Aires. And the heir to the fabulous fortune was her very young daughter Athena. What could have forced Christina Onassis to give up a life that was far from the worst, especially to leave her very little daughter, whom she loved so dearly, alone? An inquisitive psychologist would certainly have found the root causes of her depressive state, which ended in suicide, back in her distant childhood. Aristotle Onassis married 17-year-old Tina Livanos out of great love in 1946. And at first, their marriage really presented an ideal picture of a happy married life. But soon the euphoria passed, and its place was taken by a completely inexplicable melancholy, which gradually took complete possession of Tina. It seemed to her that her husband was suppressing her and, not having come up with anything better, she began to take drugs out of protest and, as if out of spite. Even the children - by this time the family already had a son, Alexander and a daughter, Christina - could not influence the mood of their beloved mother. But the family still continued to exist. True, Tina, completely absorbed in numerous personal problems, did not pay due attention to the children (which, by the way, further intensified her suffering), and Aristotle, or, as his relatives called him, Aris, was too busy with work, so there was no time for family joys there wasn't much left. But still, the Onassis undertook sea voyages. They went sailing on a huge luxurious yacht, which Aristotle gave to his beloved Christina as a baby, or spent several days together in some European city, staying in the best hotel rooms, apartments or villas. Christina grew up like a princess, even her dolls were dressed in outfits specially tailored by Christian Dior himself. But, as you know, no intricate gifts or curiosities can replace parental love, affection, attention and warmth. The older the children became, the more often violent quarrels occurred between the Onassis spouses, which were often witnessed by Alexander and Christina. Finally, after Aristotle’s next affair with the famous Greek singer Maria Callas, the already fragile marriage broke up. And in 1968, Aristotle remarried, and to the famous American widow Jacqueline Kennedy.
Three years later, 18-year-old Christina ran away from home with 48-year-old Joseph Bolker. Bolker worked as a real estate salesman in Los Angeles, he was divorced and had four grown-up children from his first marriage. Of course, such details could hardly have pleased the father-in-law, especially since he was informed about his daughter’s marriage to this suspicious Jew (Aristotle especially disliked them) during a celebration organized in honor of Mrs. Onassis’s 42nd birthday. It is not surprising that he was furious and immediately announced that he was disinheriting his daughter. Talking to Christina on the phone, her father categorically stated that she would not receive a cent until she divorced Bolker. Even Jacqueline, who always fell silent when she saw her husband in anger, could not influence Aristotle’s decision, since it was simply useless to object to him, especially at such moments. Christina and Bolker lived together for only 9 months, after which the latter, under pressure from Onassis, nevertheless began divorce proceedings. Christina attempted suicide. She was so upset by her father's anger that she could not come to terms with the situation. Something similar had already happened in her life, when she was forced to part with one of her first lovers, Petros Goulandris. Then for the first time she met such fierce resistance from her father, who had never refused her anything before, and felt fully what it was like to argue with a strong personality. Christina lost this argument, just as her mother Tina always lost before, trying to prove her point in some way with the help of drugs. Later, Bolker recalled: “We lived in tension. She is still too young and could not bear the separation from her father.” Christina said, “He will cease to be my husband, but will forever remain my best friend.” Every time Christina came out of depression, she was overcome by an incredible thirst for life. She did not miss a single party, celebration or reception, and every time photographs appeared on the newspaper pages, indicating her rather dubious entertainment. In 1975, Aristotle Onassis died, and Christina was left completely alone; her brother crashed on a sports plane even earlier, and then her mother died. At the age of 24, she lost her only remaining close person, even if he was too despotic, but who loved her endlessly, and turned into the richest bride in the world. Moreover, now Christina was free to choose a spouse or just a partner. But her newfound freedom no longer pleased her, just like her father’s millions. Aristotle Onassis was buried on the family-owned island of Skorpios in the Aegean Sea. Immediately after the funeral, Christina gathered all the staff, her father’s business colleagues and his friends on her yacht. The invitees were in a depressed state, and the conversation could hardly be maintained. Aristotle Onassis rightfully enjoyed universal respect. Unexpectedly for everyone, Christina climbed onto a massive table installed in the center of the salon, and, looking around those present with a dull and for some reason enraged look, exclaimed, “From today, this island, this ship, everything that you see and that belongs to the Onassis family is mine.” . I will determine your destiny." After a short pause, with a broken voice, she shouted, “And you are all mine too.”
After some time, Christina got married. This time for the heir of prosperous entrepreneurs - Alexandros Andreadis. But a year later the couple divorced, and Christina was again left alone with her melancholy and ever-increasing depression. Then there was a third marriage, with a Russian official and KGB agent Sergei Kauzov. Their acquaintance happened completely by chance. One day, Christina was negotiating by phone with Moscow regarding the transportation of a shipment of oil on her tankers. The interlocutor seemed to her to be extremely nice and kind, and he spoke impeccable English. Gradually the conversation took on a completely non-business character. They met, exchanged pleasantries, and after a while Sergei came to Christina in Paris. This connection was hidden for a long time, and not only from the public, even Christina’s relatives had no idea about anything. Therefore, when she announced that she was marrying a Russian official, everyone was amazed to the extreme. Among other things, Christina was supposed to live with her husband in Moscow after marriage. But first, Sergei needed to divorce his first wife, who could not hold her husband back either with tears or curses. Only Sergei’s mother to some extent understood her son’s “madness,” and it was with her, in a modest Moscow apartment, that the happy lovers settled for the first time. At the wedding ceremony, which took place in a gloomy building on Griboyedov Street, some of Sergei’s relatives were present, but none of her close friends came to congratulate the bride. Of course, the daughter of a Greek billionaire would hardly ever be able to get used to the simple and unpretentious Russian way of life. As soon as she found herself back in the small apartment of Serezha’s mother, who couldn’t stop humming Russian folk songs with joy, she realized that she desperately wanted to go home. Closer to night, calls to friends began - in Paris, New York, London... And a few days later Christina left for Europe. Sergei rushed after her, and they met again, as if engaged, in hotels and hotel rooms... Apparently, this relationship, which so often went from one extreme to another, was already beginning to tire both of them. They did not see a future together, so the divorce was easy, and it finally put an end to a beautiful love story that lasted almost a year and a half. Christina gave her beloved two tankers as a last gift, and they parted. Sergei Kauzov then married the Englishwoman Alison Harkes, the former mistress of the British Minister of Defense. The couple had a daughter, but this marriage did not last long. Perhaps Sergei did not manage to forget about the delightful romance with the Greek woman. Today, 60-year-old Sergei Kauzov has become a fabulously wealthy entrepreneur. Some compatriots, not without envy, call this new multimillionaire one of the richest former KGB employees. Despite the ease of divorce from Sergei, Christina Onassis moved away from social life for some time. It was not easy to look like a cheerful lady in the eyes of society when the bitterness of new disappointment burned the soul. But after some time, she again began to appear at social events, hoping to convince everyone, and herself first of all, that life was not so bad. Christina moved to Paris. Here she met her old friend Thierry Roussel, a wealthy French businessman whom she met 10 years ago. Thierry, apparently noticing the decadent mood Christine was in, unexpectedly decided that from now on the goal of his life would be to save the young woman. He sincerely believed that he would be able to set her on the right path and save her from the bad habits that Christina had acquired by this time. At first she objected because she did not see anything wrong with pills and other drugs, at least she believed that this was her personal business. But gradually, realizing how much Thierry sincerely cared about her, Christine gave in. “Here is a person who finds me attractive, and of course not because of the money. Yes, Thierry is better than all my previous husbands, - this is what Christina believed in this, perhaps, the most wonderful period of her life. Thierry and Christina got married, soon their daughter Athena was born, and it seemed that happiness would last forever, but... Anonymous calls began, acquaintances allegedly with good intentions and in order to warn the young woman, they vying with each other to tell her some secret details from Thierry’s life. It turns out that he had an affair on the side, and what is most offensive, with his former lover - the Swede Gabi Landhange. Despite his marriage to Christina, Thierry did not break off relations with this woman, and she later had a child with him. It was rumored that a certain agreement was concluded between the lovers, which obliged Thierry to maintain this connection. Christina knew that her husband had once had an affair with Gabi, but she could not have imagined that this relationship would continue even after their marriage. Thierry, while remaining a caring, attentive and sensitive husband, still cheated on her from the very first day of a happy married life. Such a discovery can shock any, even the most courageous, woman, not to mention the completely unbalanced and somewhat hysterical Christina. The offense was too great to forget and forgive. Another divorce followed, although Thierry still tried to show his affection. He often came to visit his daughter and, of course, tried to regain Christina’s trust, but, however, without much zeal. Christina sought solace in church. According to those around her, she had become fanatically religious. Perhaps faith in God was the only thing that still kept her on the edge of the abyss, but, apparently, this was not enough to overcome the melancholy of loneliness. The day before her death, Cristina returned from a party late at night to a hotel in Buenos Aires. She quickly went up to her room, but after some time she reappeared in the hotel lobby. Christina looked a little strange, which surprised the hotel employees. She was barefoot, wearing “walkman” headphones and dressed too lightly for this time of year. She, not paying attention to anyone, walked to the exit and disappeared from view. Where she was and why she came out, no one ever found out. The next day, when her friend Marina Dodero came to pick her up, Christina was already in her room. Together with Helen Ciro, Marina’s inseparable companion, they went to a villa 37 km from the city. Towards evening, the company settled down for dinner near the pool, Christina, citing poor appetite and chills, said that she would go to bed. The next morning she was found dead. Naked, she lay in a cold bath. There were no signs of violence or signs of a struggle; she died of severe pulmonary edema. Then an empty bottle of sleeping pills was found. Thierry Roussel, having barely learned about what had happened, came to his former lover, but all he could now do for her was to take on the troubles associated with the funeral. Christina was buried on the island of Skorpios, which became the island-mausoleum of the Onassis family. The last scion of the noble family - Athena - became the only consolation for Thierry. From now on, he decided to devote himself entirely to this girl, still very young, in order to fully feel the irreparable loss. .