Athina roussel inherit which island

Contact us. All external sites will open in a new browser. Home Page. World Business. World Sport. Special Reports. What's on. Business Traveller. Although once known as the "poor little rich girl", the heir in recent years has also sold off a considerable number of Greek assets.

To the surprise of friends and family, she recently auctioned the entire collection of her mother's jewellery and a plot of land on the Athenian Riviera where the dynasty's ancestral home once stood. While partly attributed to the Greek crisis, her decision to distance herself from her roots may also have as much to do with the notoriously bad relations she has with officials who run the Onassis Foundation — the other half of her grandfather's legendary estate in Athens.

A charitable organisation bequeathed by the shipowner to commemorate his son Alexandros, who died in a plane crash, the foundation cut ties with Athina after its board of trustees criticised her lack of spoken Greek and poor knowledge of the country and its customs. She was raised speaking Swedish to her stepmother and French to her father Roussel, the heir to a pharmaceutical empire. Famously reclusive, the heir has remained tight-lipped about the latest sale. 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.

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