Athina Roussel Onassis´s fabulous inheritance.
 
The richest youth in the world, about to manage 1.622 million dollars.  Appeared in Clarín.

It's the fortune she has inherited from her mother and grandfather, Aristotle. She will be able to make use of it as from January 29th, when she turns 18. She has already said she'll give most of it for charity.

"I'd burn that money", Athina Roussel Onassis said not long ago to the American television. Greek magnate Aristotle Onassis' granddaughter was talking about the 1.622 million dollars she will manage at will since January 29th, when she turns 18. For the time being, she seems more interested in horse riding, a sport in which she's already an international promise, and that has allowed her to meet her boyfriend, a 29-year-old Brazilian who has won several medals for his country.

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Young Athina finds her family's past almost as heavy as her inheritance, in spite of the fact that it had already decreased when Aristotle made Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy a second-time widow, having been the wife of the US President murdered in 1963. Greek tragedy and wealth will accompany her again when she turns 21 and has to take care of the 600 millions of the Alexander Onassis Foundation, created by her grandfather in 1975, when his only son died in an accident with his light aircraft.

Perhaps the hardest for her to overcome is her mother's four frustrated marriages. She was born of the last one, with drug industry magnate Thierry Roussel. She was one year old when her parents got divorced, because Thierry had just had his second child with the Swedish former model Gaby Landhage, a ten-year relationship that hadn't been interrupted even by the marriage.

Athina went to live with them when her mother died. She adapted well to the new family, that continue to grew. Her father intended her to live a normal life. He established in Lussy-sur-Morges, a charming little Swedish town on the shore of the Leman Lake, far enough from curious people and paparazzi. He moved into a more than comfortable, but not opulent house, and sent his eldest daughter to a state primary school.

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How much money will Athina have when she's 21? Nobody really knows. Some say 5.000 million dollars. Only a few days away from beginning to manage 1.622 millions, she's studying how to get rid of them by donating them to a charity organization. She plans to keep "only" 20 millions to develop a horse breeding place. She confesses she would like to "forget the name Onassis: it's the source of all the
trouble ".



   January 12, 2003.

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