Why the richest Greek woman could not become happy: Billions of a father, 4 husbands and the curse of the Onassis clan

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

She got everything she wanted and grew up, as befits a real princess. But most of all she wanted love. At first she searched in vain for her from her parents, and then from men. Alas, her husbands were attracted by her father's money much more than personal qualities. Confirming the notorious "happiness is not in money", she lived a rich, but short life, never being able to find what she was sincerely striving for.

The girl, who has billions as an inheritance, not only managed to be married four times, but also lived in many countries: the USA, Argentina, Greece, France and even in the USSR. Her short biography is still, even three decades after her death, shrouded in secrets, intrigues and conjectures. And there are reasons for that - her life was full of passions and disappointments, love and hate. Suicide attempts, divorce and depression - all this haunted her. Christina died when she was a little over 30 years old.

Childhood and parents' unhappy marriage

The girl was born in New York in December 1950. About people like her they say: "was born with a silver spoon in her mouth." Her father was a famous Greek businessman, by that time already billionaire Aristotle Onassis. He was engaged in shipbuilding and managed to make his fortune on it. The girl's mother, Athena Livanos, was also not an ordinary person and came from a wealthy family.

In this marriage, two children were born: the eldest son Alexander and daughter Christina. Unfortunately, the adults were unable to maintain a relationship with each other and divorced. The girl was going through the separation of her parents very hard, besides, the father, not being embarrassed by the children, brought new women into the house, the mother was depressed. Even Jacqueline Kennedy, the widow of John Kennedy, a famous beauty of those times, is called one of her father's mistresses. Children turned out to be of no use to anyone, while both parents independently arranged their lives, Christina tried drugs for the first time.

A luxurious life - the family lived on a huge yacht, rather reminiscent of a floating palace, toys worth a fortune, but at the same time complete indifference on the part of parents, lack of attention and mental anguish - this was the life of Christina. After the divorce, my mother went to live in Paris and the children chose to live with her. But this did not stop her from taking potent drugs, ostensibly to treat depression.

The father continued to participate in the lives of the children, but, as a rule, this was limited to money and gifts. The girl was deeply offended by her father, who deleted the children from his life (as it seemed to her) and did not feel remorse.

It was during this period that the legend of the curse of the family was born, Aristotle Onassis became the cause of the broken heart of Maria Callas, the famous opera diva. However, their relationship did not last long, he soon exchanged her for another, and Callas, a woman with insane energy, cursed him and all his lovers - former and future.

Aristotle himself, who is often called the "golden Greek", owns the words that without women all the money in the world would mean absolutely nothing. What did he love more than women or money? In any case, he had enough of both. It is possible that his truly beloved women - his daughter and granddaughter - are now responsible for his untidiness in love affairs.

Escape from dislike

Father's money and an idle lifestyle, coupled with a lack of attention and mental pain, led him along a crooked path - Christina began to constantly disappear at dubious parties and make ambiguous acquaintances. Then drugs appeared, romances with guys from the same parties, but the gaping wound in the soul did not heal, rather, it only became deeper, and the psychological problems were becoming more serious.

The intra-family conflict and the oppressive feeling of loneliness pushed the girl to a rather stupid step - earlier marriage. And her chosen one was the American developer Joseph Bulker. On top of that, he was 48 years old, and the wealthy heiress was 18 years old at that time. Father's anger is hard to imagine. But Christina achieved the main thing - all her father's attention was drawn to her person, albeit in a negative way.

The father threatened to leave the girl without an inheritance if she did not divorce. Christina, having played enough on her dad's nerves, divorced 9 months after the wedding. And then a suicide attempt followed. It is not known whether this was a real desire to end his life or another attempt to attract the attention of his parents. However, after her recovery, she began to lead an even more idle lifestyle, practically did not get out of clubs, made a series of new acquaintances, used alcohol and drugs.

She began to buy herself love, trying to fill the void with expensive things and jewelry. However, subsequent events broke her completely. In a plane crash, Christina's older brother, who at that time was only 25 years old, crashed, and literally a year later, his mother died. It is believed that the death of Athena is not an accident at all, but a suicide, but the official version tends to the first option.

The girl stays with her father, but this turned out to be not for long, a series of deaths also takes her only close person - her father. Oncology became the cause of his death. All family members are buried in one place on a personal island, while Christina is left alone at the head of a huge empire.

The capricious girl has grown

Considering the fact that Christina did not have a stable psyche before, it is scary to imagine what happened to her after a series of such tests. In addition, the enormous fortune of her father, whose sovereign mistress she became, made her a very attractive party, and fortune hunters gathered around her in an instant.

By this time, the second husband, Alexander Andreadis, arrived in time - wealthy enough to be considered a person of her circle, but also rather greedy to be interested not in Christina herself, but in her condition. It is said that their marriage was doomed from the start and the divorce that followed shortly after the wedding was inevitable.

However, after the second divorce, Christina began to look for consolation not at parties and acquaintances, as she usually did, but began to closely engage in the family business and even managed to prove herself as a talented leader. Apparently, the girl went to her father with intelligence and flexibility in solving strategic problems, because she felt confident in this field. Despite everything, she managed to build her business reputation and she was brilliant. The business developed, new prospects opened up, she was sure that her father would be proud of her and this spurred her even more.

Third husband from the USSR

It was the business that brought her to her third husband, the Soviet civil servant Sergei Kauzov. She met him by phone when she negotiated the supply of tankers for grain transportation. Young people, even on the phone, during a business conversation, were able to charm each other so much that a whirlwind romance began between them, very soon they were able to meet in person, the meeting took place in Paris and the young people finally fell in love with each other.

A fly in the ointment was brought in by the fact that Sergei was married, and the intelligence services, and not only the USSR, immediately became interested in the novel of a Greek billionaire and a Soviet official. However, these circumstances did not become obstacles for the lovers, in 1978 they officially became husband and wife. For this, Sergei left his first wife, and Christina, as befits a faithful wife, moved to her husband in Moscow.

Why the billionaire from Greece had to move to Moscow is not clear, apparently the spirit of adventurism was still preserved in it. They settled in an apartment that was allocated to the newlyweds by the Soviet state. This house was occupied entirely by officials and artists, but the billionaire was disturbed by the noise of trams - paths passed nearby. She honestly tried to get used to the new circumstances, but it was not easy for a woman who always lived in luxury and abundance.

Very soon she left the USSR, and Sergei remained in Moscow, from time to time the couple saw each other somewhere in Europe, but they no longer lived together. True, his wife offered him to move to Europe and work in her company. Sergei hesitated, but agreed, so from an ordinary official he became a rather famous millionaire in Europe. Moreover, Sergei transported his mother to Europe, Christina presented him with two tankers, which helped him to his feet. Kristina later called her marriage to Sergei the best period in her life.

Despite the unconditional love and support of each other, the marriage of Christina and Sergey broke up after just two years.

Attempt # 4

To lick her wounds, the girl returned to the island where her loved ones were buried. Gradually, the quiet Skorpios turned into a place of social gatherings, which any party lover dreamed of getting to. Celebrities have often been here. In fact, she again began to seek salvation in parties and entertainment, except that now they were not the same as before, when she was completely not selective in people.

It was during one of these parties that she met the Frenchman Thierry Roussel. He was a self-sufficient person, he had a serious business in France. He had a great influence on Christina and it was for him that she ended her idle lifestyle, underwent addiction treatment, stopped drinking alcohol and became an exemplary wife.

It was from this relationship that Christina's only daughter was born, whom she named after her mother Athena. She finally stopped being tormented, believed that she was able to build a strong family, find the main man in her life, because she really loved him very much, so much so that she even gave birth to him a child. Alas, this man could not live up to her expectations and just love her herself, without being tied to her enormous fortune.

After a while, it turned out that her husband was leading a double life and did not end the relationship with his former love. Moreover, it turned out that they even have a joint child, who was born after the beginning of a relationship with Christina. The woman is not a pier to accept such a deception, which was not even a betrayal, but a real betrayal. She felt used, and worst of all, her former emptiness and loneliness had returned. The parties began again, alcohol and strong drugs.

However, she was no stranger to starting everything from scratch, at least now she had a daughter. In 1988, she moved to Buenos Aires and plans to live a quiet and measured life without parties and drugs. At that time, there was already a man next to her, who, according to rumors, had been prophesied to her as a fifth husband. This time it was her friend's brother whom she had known since childhood. But even if it was in the plans, they did not have time to register the relationship, even if they planned to do it.

In the same 1988 she was found in her room with no signs of life. The investigation established that there were no violent signs, the girl died of pulmonary edema, which happened due to an overdose of strong drugs that she took on a regular basis. Christina was buried in the family crypt on the island, next to her family.

The only heir to the fortune was the daughter Athena, whom her father took under his care. According to the will, he could only spend money on the maintenance of the girl. The girl was brought up in a complete family, and she developed warm and friendly relations with her stepmother. In total, the family had four children and Athena was raised in the same way as the rest of the children. However, she had to be cherished like the apple of an eye; in childhood, they tried to steal her for ransom 7 times! While Athena was a teenager, she heard a lot about the curse of the family and money of her late grandfather and expected to spend everything on charity. However, after receiving the first dividends, she changed her mind, studied Greek and graduated in order to be able to lead the fund.

The history of the family is shocking with the number of unfortunate coincidences, is there really a curse that threatens everyone who touches the wealth of Onassis? While Athena repeats the fate of her kind, at least with regard to misfortunes in love. Her main love was and remains equestrian sports, while at the hippodrome she met her husband, whom, by the way, she took away from the playboy star. And this is despite the rather modest appearance. Well, what can you do, beauty goes away, but grandfather's millions are only accumulating.

Athena even took her husband from her first marriage to raise her children, but no matter how hard she tried, the script was painfully similar to her mother's marriages. She was tired of enduring endless betrayal of her husband and filed for divorce after 11 years of marriage. She leads a reclusive lifestyle, wishing that the curse of her kind would end on her. She is engaged in horses and even sold the island on which her closest relatives are buried. It seemed to her that this should deprive her of her connection to the family.

All her life, Athena fears the curse of her grandfather's money and spends a lot on charity, however, she already has one unsuccessful marriage behind her. It is possible that she will not repeat the bitter mistakes of her mother and, sooner or later, will be truly happy.