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Christina, whose 1971 marriage to Los Angeles Realtor Joseph Bolker, now 51, enraged Papa Ari and ended in divorce after nine months, did have some matrimonial guidance this time around...
...time-honored Greek tradition of mixing business with bloodlines, overseers of the Onassis empire had selected Andreadis as a good prospect, say friends of the family. Artemis Garofalidou, Ari's sister and Christina's closest confidante, set up the first meeting between the two-a chat over coffee at the Athens Hilton, a hotel owned by the Andreadis family. "The girls in my past? They were young things," pronounced Alexander four weeks later. "Christina is a woman, a serious woman. Ours is a serious marriage...
Moreover, Alexander's conservative, family-oriented life-style may seem especially appealing to the long unsettled heiress. After her mother, Tina Livanos, divorced Ari in 1960 because of his affair with Opera Singer Maria Callas, Christina quickly grew into a child of the jetset. "She was given far too much money-a bad mistake. All she had to do was spend," observes Baron Arnaud de Rosnay, who has known Christina since she was eleven. "She has one of the strongest personalities I have encountered in a woman. She wanted to be someone on her own and couldn...
Beginning in 1970, a series of personal tragedies began to overshadow Christina's playgirl path. First her maternal aunt, Eugenie Niarchos, wife of Ari's longtime shipping rival, Stavros Niarchos, died from an overdose of sleeping pills. The following year Christina suffered through her own first marriage, divorce and a brief stay at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles. Rumors of an attempted suicide began to circulate, but were vehemently denied by her family...
Sandwiched between Na Na on belmbau and Moulay Ari Hafid on dumbeg on the old Gato Barbleri albums is the fine print name of planist Lonnie Liston Smith. Occasionally in those early takes, between Gato's blasts and the percussionists' meanderings, you could make out what sounded like some pretty sweet music coming from Smith's direction. Apparently the word got to Gato that Smith was doing good things with the plano and it wasn't long before the saxophonist boosted him to "featuring" status on his latest albums. The logical extension of all this is happening this weekend...