On Christmas Day 1988, on the island of Skolpios, the third grave was opened.
Christina Onassis is buried here, next to the tombs of Aristotle and Alexander Onassis.
Athena Onassis, who was not yet 4 years old, watched her mother buried, lonely and small;
But don't sympathize with her, when the bell rings at the age of 18, $800 million will automatically go into her pocket, and at the age of 21, the president of the Alexander Charity Association is waiting for her, which is another huge fortune.
However, perhaps her unfortunate life began with a huge fortune.
Athena's maternal grandfather's name was Aristotle Socrates Onassis, and he was not very familiar with literature and ink, but he was a good hand at discerning the direction of the wind and speculating in business.
When he was a teenager, because of the Greco-Turkish war, his family was in the middle of the road, and Onassis had to go to Argentina to work as a welder in a ** company to make a living. Working long hours and not making a lot of money, but he is keenly aware of business opportunities.
Argentines like to smoke, but only local and South American tobacco is sold here, and Greek tobacco, which is more mellow and cheaper, is not sold. Onassis resigned, returned to Greece to buy a batch of tobacco, and made his fortune by smuggling. By the early days of the Great Depression, he had become the largest importer of Greek products in Argentina.
Subsequently, the economic crisis that swept the world erupted, countless businesses went bankrupt, and shipping was in an unprecedented depression. Onassis, however, bought many ships at low prices when the old seafarers were selling their freighters, and after the economic recovery, he became the hegemon of the sea, completely stepping into the ranks of the world's richest people.
At the age of 40, Onassis married another shipyard, the young lady of the Rivanos family, 17-year-old Tina Rivanos. Tina is very beautiful, blonde, long-sleeved, and has a good dowry.
It seems to be a beautiful thing, but there are some abnormal changes inside. Tina gave birth to a son and a daughter successively, and all of them looked like their dark and strong old father, especially the daughter Christina, who was carved out of the same mold as Onassis. Onassis liked it very much, but his wife Tina was very upset.
The husband is promiscuous, and the two children still look like him, which is really terrible. Quarrels often broke out between the husband and wife, and in the end, neither of them wanted to continue, so they simply divorced. The father had another lover, and the mother soon remarried, and the children were caught in the middle of it.
The eldest son, Alexander, is still good, and his personality is more like his father, full of tenacity; Second, boys are always more valued by their parents. Daughter Christina is more miserable, suffering from "mutism" when she was 5 years old, and she doesn't say a word all day. After his parents divorced, he was "nomadic" between his parents and couldn't find a home.
On January 22, 1973, Onassis's only son, Alexander Onassis, died in a plane crash, leaving the rest of his family in a state of endless grief.
At this timeOnassis was 66 years old, and it was obviously unrealistic to create another heir, so he divided the family fortune into two parts, one part of which was established in the name of his son Alexander, and the other part was inherited by his only daughter, Christina.
The old Onassis is very worried about his daughter, perhaps because of the lack of love since childhood, the child is unusually attached to emotions. If the emotional road is not smooth, he resorts to drugs and alcohol, and his life is a mess. He took his daughter with him to teach him carefully, but unfortunately he was unable to return to heaven, and two years later, Onassis died, and Christina lost the last member of the family.
Christina inherited more than 400 ships, plus businesses and some real estate, worth about $800 million.
The already fragile girl was repeatedly hit, and her whole physical and mental state was terrible. She inherited dark circles and a hooked nose from her father, and her short and stout figure can become obese if she is not careful, so Christina has always longed for a man who does not want her beauty, does not want her money, and will treat her with a sincere heart.
The bad thing is that she is a piece of "fat meat", and most men come for her money. So they got married, divorced, remarried, and divorced, until the fourth time, and found their childhood friend, Thierry Russell, the heir to the French pharmaceutical company.
The blonde man looked at Christina's fat waist and said to her, "Dear Chris, if you can lose 80 pounds and stuff yourself into your wedding dress, we'll get married." ”
It's obviously not love, but Christina still plunged into itShe was successful and gave a gift worth $10 million to her new husband on the day of her wedding to Thierry.
In the second year of marriage, the two welcomed a daughter: Athena Onassis Russell de Miranda. But what Christina didn't know was that Thierry was a *** before marriage, and he had a long-term lover, Swedish model Marianne Gabi Lanhag. Shortly after the birth of his daughter, Thierry's lover also added him a son.
After learning the news, Christina kicked her husband out of the house and announced her divorce from Thierry, but her heart was broken by this relationship, except for taking care of little Athena, it was drunk and dreamed of death. Drugs and alcohol took her young life, and at the age of 37, she died in the bathtub of a mansion due to heart disease caused by acute pulmonary edema.
Christina died a hundred times, but left behind her 3-year-old daughter Athena.
When Christina was alive, she was very fond of her only daughter. The big-name baby clothes are all custom-made, and they give whatever they want, and even made a will early and left all their property to Athena.
If Christina is confused, it is not true, she has a special management committee in her will, and if she unfortunately dies before her daughter reaches adulthood, this committee will help to trust the inheritance until Athena reaches adulthood.
The only thing she didn't expect was that she would leave so early.
After the funeral, Athena, the "richest girl in the world", was taken back to France by her father Thierry to raise her, which is justified. When he picked it up, Thierry blew the sky, and he would definitely give his daughter the best life. In fact, he remarried soon after, and his new wife was his lover Mary Anne, who had already given birth to two children, both of whom were about the same age as Athena.
The father and stepmother and their children are all blonde, but Athena has brown hair and looks "alone" in this family. The love between father and daughter is naturally there, but because the wealth is moving, emotions account for a few points in the middle, and no one can say clearly.
Thierry told Athena that she should live a normal life, so she was placed in a public school in Switzerland, and the transportation vehicle was very ordinary.
Thierry tells Athena that he loves every child equally, so everyone has the same amount of pocket money.
Seeing Athena in and out of public schools, there are people who decide to kidnap the "richest girl in the world" by taking a big vote. Despite the danger, Thierry threw the matter on the management committee, claiming that they were going to kidnap Athena.
Before Athena became an adult, Thierry cut her daughter off from the outside world in various ways, telling her that she was the only protector, that money didn't matter, and that all the pain you went through was because of it.
The Governing Council had a different view, arguing that Thierry had cut Athena off from her homeland, and that a girl far from Greece was worthy of inheriting the fortunes of the Greek shipholders.
Both parties want to be Athena's "guardians" and control the poor child and thus the large inheritance. The two sides have gone to court many times, and the management committee even revealed that Thierry has taken more than $80 million from the committee, and also asks the committee to pay $13 million a year as Athena's child support.
No one really cares about Athena's thoughts, Thierry only cares about making money useless, money will bring you danger, money is not a good thing, and other ideas are instilled in Athena's head, and the huge inheritance has become a fear in Athena's heart. Athena, who was young, said in frustration: "If I burn all that money, then there will be no problem, no money, no problem." ”
While most people in the world are worried about not having money, there are still people who are suffering from too much money.
The isolated environment, the complicated family, and the chaotic disputes that cut the unresolved disputes, Athena has no friends, and the only one who will never betray her is the horse.
Unlike other rich and famous ladies with fragrant sideburns and big names, Athena doesn't apply fat every time she appears, revealing a face with clear water and hibiscus. The clothes are also very simple, ordinary regular clothes or a sportswear.
In the family photos, her posture is never as casual as other half-siblings, always standing next to her father Thierry, and her arms and legs are showing a nervous taste. And Athena is most relaxed when she is next to the horse, which brings a relaxed smile to her face.
I like horses, I like to be with themAthena was fascinated by equestrian sports at a young age, and at the age of 17, she decided to move to Brussels to pursue her equestrian progress. In 2003, while studying at the prestigious Nelson Pessoa Equestrian Academy in Belgium, Athena saw her future husband, Brazilian equestrian Álvaro Alfonso de Miranda Neto, for the first time, and she immediately determined that this person was her love sustenance.
Álvaro's family is fairly wealthy in Brazil, his father is a well-known director, and Álvaro himself won an Olympic bronze medal. But this wealth is a drop in the bucket from the wealth that Athena will inherit. To make matters worse, Álvaro already has a wife, Rio de Janeiro supermodel Dosa, although the two divorced soon after, which has cast a shadow over the beginning of the relationship.
In 2003, at the age of 18, Athena officially inherited her mother's inheritance, about $800 million. She had no idea what to do with the money, except to make it clear that she would invest $20 million in a stud farm.
After Álvaro's divorce, Athena moved to São Paulo in order to be closer to her new boyfriend, a move that angered her elderly father. Thierry was worried about Álvaro's intentions and the fact that he was 12 years older than Athena, and felt that men were only in it for money.
"People tend to think of us at worst because of the huge wealth involved, but there are no problems between us anymore," Alvaro said. I don't want a penny from her. I think anyone in the world who approaches Athena with the exception of Bill Gates would be considered ill-intentioned. ”
Athena's father took steps to tighten control over her inheritance, but this time, the daughter did not compromise with her father. In 2005, 20-year-old Assia married Álvaro under pressure, settled in São Paulo, and gave birth to a daughter, Talita.
Since then, has Athena lived happily ever after with Álvaro?
Happiness is not so easy to obtain.
Athena's biological father, Thierry, filed a lawsuit, claiming that his daughter's property should be his own. Lawyers from both sides reached a settlement after arguing in court. Athena allegedly paid a total of £53 million worth of £53 million for this (10.6 billion U.S. dollars) of cash and real estate.
But when she wanted to inherit the other half of the fortune, something went wrong, and the management changed the constitution of the Alexander Society, canceling Athena's right to automatically become president on her 21st birthday. Because they believed that Athena knew little about Greek culture and did not speak Greek, she did not have the authority to lead such an important organization.
And that's not all, after breaking up with her father, she did live happily ever after 10 years with Álvaro, and with Álvaro's successive cheating incidents**, Athena's world collapsed again.
As if her mother's fate had reappeared, Athena found that her husband had a Belgian lover for eight years, and she was unwilling to endure this humiliation, so she spent 2 years letting her husband leave the house, and according to the prenuptial contract, Athena should have paid Alvaro $11 million.
After the divorce, Athena rekindled her passion for her mother's homeland. She reverted to the surname "Onassis", learned Greek and even represented Greece at an equestrian show competition outside Athens in 2019.
She is still not keen on appearing at banquets, and she doesn't like to swagger in front of the camera in expensive dresses, after the divorce, Athena pays more attention to privacy, seems to have eased her relationship with her father, and has a new boyfriend, everything is going in a good direction!
When ordinary people talk about intimacy, they will probably say: "We really love each other, she doesn't want me as a person, what else can she want from me?" ”
But when it comes to Athena, whether it is the family affection represented by her father or the love represented by her ex-husband, it is impossible to be pure at all. "Does he love me, or my money? ”
It's a tough puzzle.
For many years, Athena was firmly in the hands of her father, Thierry, who she loved dearly, but also feared the man who was often angry.
Then, because of love, she broke through the shackles put on her father's head, but in exchange for the betrayal of love.
Christina never learned to walk independently in her life, and did not understand that feelings are just a part of life, so she died early, hoping that her daughter could take another path, be happy and enjoy the moment.