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...Athina Roussel opened her eyes to a world filled with opportunity and excitement. It was her 21st birthday, fresh cause to celebrate only eight weeks after her wedding to a dashing Brazilian equestrian, Alvaro Alfonso de Miranda Neto, known to his bride and the world's press as "Doda." On the face of it, everything was finally turning rosy for the young woman whose early life had been scarred by the tragic death of her mother, Christina Onassis, and circumscribed by the pressures of enormous wealth - an estimated $600 million she picked up as sole heiress to her mother...
...foundation surprised some observers. Athina has already shown signs of her mother's chutzpah and a willingness to go her own way. She dropped out of high school at 17, but became a talented horsewoman and linguist. She renounced the Onassis name at the urging of her father, Thierry Roussel, at the age of 13, telling judges that she felt "great aversion" to all things Greek, but she later shook off Roussel's influence. A French playboy who married and then divorced Christina, Roussel used to manage Athina's fortune in concert with the foundation, though his own relations with...
Rosenblum’s guide on his European adventures is Chloe Doutre-Roussel, a French chocoholic who once scaled the wall of Valrhona’s Rhone Valley factory in order to catch a glimpse of production at her nation’s most secretive chocolatier...
...Doutre-Roussel succeeds in her attempt to penetrate Valrhona’s closely-guarded headquarters, but she fails in her later mission. As the chocolate buyer at the London department store Fortnum & Mason, she undertakes a quixotic bid to introduce the British to fine chocolate. But she quits in frustration at her customers’ persistent desire to buy violet creams...
...Skorpios, Athina Roussel's 2,965-acre Greek island (asking price: $360 million...