Thierry Roussel Net Worth
Thierry Roussel is an Entrepreneur and Businessperson best known for establishing publicity space rental companies. Additionally, he founded GMT Multi-Strategy Fund of Funds.
Christina Onassis died of an accidental sleeping pill overdose at age 37 in 1988, leaving $400 Million to Athina Atkinson (then three). Christina left part of this fortune to Thierry Roussel as well.
Early Life and Education
After her divorce from Roussel, Christina Onassis married Brazilian Olympic show jumper Doda de Miranda Neta and stipulated in her will that Roussel be left with no stake in her fortune; additionally she wanted Athina raised in Greek Orthodox religion with fluency of Greek language as she is raising Athina to do.
Christina had difficulty trusting Thierry Roussel with Athina’s inheritance until she reached legal age, so she appointed three trustees from the Onassis Foundation – Stelio Papadimitriou, Paul Ioannidis, and Theodore Gabrielides – to oversee it until Athina reached 18 and legally could claim it herself. These individuals would need to approve any expenditures on Athina’s behalf that Roussel made on Athina’s behalf.
Athina was born in 1985 and became a billionaire through her mother’s family fortune, after her passing in 1988. Following this event she was raised by her father and his Swedish mistress Gaby Landhage.
Professional Career
Athina Roussel is the sole surviving descendent of shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis and her father is French pharmaceutical heiress Thierry Roussel. Christina Onassis divorced Thierry in 1984 due to an affair he was having with Swedish model Marianne “Gaby” Landhage; and Athina was then born the following year in 1985.
Following her mother’s untimely death at age 37 in 1988, Athina has come into possession of their fortune but finds herself engaged in an ongoing dispute with foundation executives over how best to manage her assets.
Athina has managed to remain level-headed despite her complicated relationship with her father. She has made a name for herself in competitive show jumping as well as charity work. Currently dating Brazilian show jumper Alvaro de Miranda Neto and owning properties including apartments on Paris Avenue Foch and London Mayfair plus villas in St Moritz among other places.
Achievement and Honors
Christina Onassis appointed four Greek men, known as the Graybeards, to oversee her daughter’s inheritance until she turned 18. Thierry Roussel was one of these trustees; a pharmaceutical heir who has had numerous legal issues arise out of him as part of this arrangement.
He was previously married to Swedish model Marianne ‘Gaby’ Landhage and they shared two children before divorcing. Additionally, he has one additional child from an earlier relationship.
She recently found love again with a Brazilian show jumper who dropped out of school to pursue his passion of riding, with estimated wealth estimated at approximately $1 billion. Their relationship has been welcomed warmly in Brazil but issues about assets have already arisen in Greece.
Personal Life
Athina was born at the American Hospital of Paris, the only daughter of Christina Onassis and French pharmaceutical heir Thierry Roussel. They wed in 1984 but divorced later that same year as Roussel took Marianne “Gaby” Landhage as his second wife.
Since her mother died at 37 in a bathtub incident in Buenos Aires, Athina has preferred remaining in the shadows and rarely being seen out and about – perhaps favoring privacy over being seen.
Athina had several legal battles with four trustees of her grandfather’s Onassis Foundation until 1999, when these disputes were finally settled. Athina owns several estates across France, London and Switzerland in addition to owning an apartment on Avenue Foch in Paris as well as Skorpios Island property on Skorpios itself and receiving sizable annuities from it all.
Net Worth
Athina Roussel has long fit the stereotype of poor little rich girl since her mother Christina died in 1988 and left behind an estate worth $400 million, including half of shipping billionaire Aristotle Onassis’ estate as well as part of his fortune inherited by Athina’s third husband Thierry Roussel.
Christina didn’t trust her husband fully, so she appointed a board of administrators to oversee Athina’s inheritance until she reached legal age. These trustees included Paul Ioannidis, Apostolos Zabelas, Stelio Papadimitriou and Theodore Gabrielides as trustees.
Athina battled her father over control of her inheritance until she finally won it at 18 years old. Since then, Athina has attempted to reconnect with her Greek heritage by changing her name to Onassis and learning Greek language skills.
