1. Athina Helene Onassis is a French-Greek heiress and equestrian, the only surviving descendant of Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, and the only child of Aristotle's daughter Christina Onassis.
16 Facts About Athina Onassis
1. 2.
Athina Onassis was baptized on the island of Skorpios, owned by the Onassis family at the time.
3.
Christina Onassis died of pulmonary edema in November 1988, when Athina was three years old.
4.
Athina Onassis is a competitive show jumper in select events of the Global Champions Tour.
5.
Athina Onassis began riding as a child, and finished second in an event in Jerez, Spain in 2001.
6.
Athina Onassis later chose to compete as a Greek citizen for the Avlona Riding Club in Athens, under the name Athina Onassis.
7.
In November 2012, Athina Onassis suffered a spinal injury in a fall from her horse, but represented Greece in the 2013 European Show Jumping Championships and the 2014 World Championships.
8.
In February 2014, Athina Onassis paid $12 million for a 2.3-hectare estate and barn in Wellington, Florida.
9.
Athina Onassis sold the estate in April 2017 for $12.75 million.
10.
Athina Onassis began dating Brazilian professional showjumper and two-time Olympic medalist Alvaro de Miranda Neto in March 2003 and moved to Sao Paulo.
11.
Athina Onassis bought a 10,600-square-foot duplex overlooking Ibirapuera Park for $8.6 million.
12.
Divorce negotiations began almost immediately, with Athina Onassis hiring high-profile divorce lawyer Robert Stephan Cohen.
13.
The divorce caused complicated legal issues in the courts of Antwerp, Belgium, where Athina Onassis had been living.
14.
Onassis' mother Christina never trusted Thierry Roussel completely, which led the family to arrange for a board of administrators to control the family's money until Athina came of age.
15.
At that time, aged 13, Athina Onassis stated that she felt "great aversion to anything Greek".
16.
On her 18th birthday, Athina Onassis took control of her mother's inheritance.