Richest Little Girl in the World (2024)

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A profile of Athina Onassis Roussel, the teenage heiress of a $5 billion fortune left to her by grandfather Aristotle Onassis, the late Greek shipping tycoon. The documentary recounts the troubled life of Athina's mother, Christina Onassis, and clashes over the management of Athina's assets.

Onassis willed her fortune, worth an estimated $250 million (equivalent to $644 million in 2023), to her only child, Athina. Raised in Switzerland by her father, Thierry Roussel, and his wife, Marianne "Gaby" Landhage, Athina gained control of half of the estate on her 18th birthday.

French-Greek heiress Athina Onassis de Miranda and her handsome husband Alvado "Doda" de Miranda Neto have separated, the Brazilian Olympian's spokeswoman confirms to PEOPLE.

Athina Hélène Onassis (Greek: Αθηνά Ωνάση; born Athina Hélène Roussel (Greek: Αθηνά Ρουσσέλ), 29 January 1985) 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.

After Onassis died, she was UNABLE to inherit his fortune due to GREEK LAW, her being foreign! He left it to his nearest GREEK next of kin, his daughter Christina. As his widow she was entitled to a portion and received $26 million plus a share of the private Island, Skorpios, and the yacht Christina.

But soaring taxes and maintenance costs – largely as a result of the Greek economic crisis – have prompted Athina Onassis, heir to the oil tanker and business empire built by her grandfather and the sole surviving inheritor of one of the world's biggest shipping fortunes, to sell the family's private island, Skorpios, ...

Aristotle Onassis was a Greek-Argentine shipping magnate who had a net worth of $500 million at the time of his death which is the inflation-adjusted equivalent of $2.3 billion. Aristotle Onassis was born in Karatas, Smyrna, Ottoman Empire in January 1906 and passed away in March 1975.

Her marriage to Onassis was for safety, security and wealth. They both knew this. They were essentially living separate lives at the time of Ari's death.

Athina Livanos and her husband Aristotle Onassis, with their children Alexander and Christina, attending the launch of the biggest tanker in the... Alexander Onassis son of the Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle, with his mother Athina Livanos Onassis , on board the family's luxury yacht 'Christina'...

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AP A security guard blocks the entrance of the Maria Luisa and Oscar Americano Foundation where Brazilian equestrian show jumper Alvaro "Doda" Affonso de Miranda Neto and billionaire heiress Athina Roussel Onassis were married in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Dec. 3, 2005. This photo was taken Nov. 30.

Skorpios, once Aristotle Onassis' private island in the Ionian Sea, and now owned by Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev, is turning into an ultra-luxury VIP resort. The once near-mythical paradise and playground of the world's elite from the 1960s to the 1980s is poised to enter a new era.

Despite the hardships in her life, Athina has become successful in her own right. The last surviving Onassis is a seasoned show jumper, and her devotion to expensive horses means that much of her fortune and energy has been devoted to the animals over the years.

The look on her husband's face after he was shot would haunt Jackie for the rest of her life, revealed Christopher Anderson's These Few Precious Days: The Final Year of Jack with Jackie. He looked puzzled, as The Mirror describes it. The last words she ever got to say to him were, “I love you, Jack.

Athina moved into a rented apartment in São Paulo and began to study Portuguese, in which she soon became fluent. (The heiress, who also speaks French, English, and Swedish, is said to have the same facility for languages that her grandfather had. Aristotle Onassis spoke six.)

Athina Livanos and her husband Aristotle Onassis, with their children Alexander and Christina, attending the launch of the biggest tanker in the... Alexander Onassis son of the Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle, with his mother Athina Livanos Onassis , on board the family's luxury yacht 'Christina'...

Skorpios, the 200-acre island off the western coast of Greece, is the same island where former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy married Aristotle Onassis in 1968. Rybolovlev, who's worth an estimated $6.7 billion, bought the island from Aristotle Onassis' granddaughter for $153 million in 2013.

How wealthy was Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis? Immediately after Jackie's death it was reported that her estate was worth between $100 million and $200 million, but her executors later reported that the total was actually $43.7 million.