A file image of Athina Onassis left, with her former husband, Brazilian, Alvaro de Miranda Neto, at show jumping event in Switzerland in After 11 years of marriage and more than a year of legal wrangling over claims worth hundreds of millions of dollars, Athina Onassis has finally divorced her Brazilian husband Alvaro de Miranda Neto Doda. The Greek tabloid newspaper Espresso reported that the divorce was finalised in a Belgian court after the two parties reached an agreement which leaves the year-old granddaughter of Aristotle Onassis with her fortune largely intact.
Neither party attended the proceedings, and they were represented by their lawyers. Ms Onassis, also a competitive show jumper, married Mr De Miranda in Meanwhile, a heartbroken Cibele gave interviews asserting that "Doda exchanged me for Athina's money" and "he always told me he found her fat and ugly.
Roussel opposed Athina's romance with Doda from the beginning, which exacerbated the rift in his relationship with his daughter. Then, in , Athina initiated legal proceedings to take full control of her fortune, some of which Roussel had allegedly hidden. It was the last time she ever heard from Athina. The new couple made another big decision in They got engaged.
One of the first people they told was Konstantinos Kotronakis, the honorary Greek consul in Recife, Brazil, whom they asked to be best man. One thousand guests were mailed magnetic cards granting access through tight security at the outer gates.
Sheets of plastic were hung around the open-air structure, so while a crowd of photographers gathered outside the property, the images they managed to shoot through the curtain were blurry. There were two ceremonies—first a Catholic mass and then a Greek Orthodox liturgy. Rodrigo Pessoa, the son of Athina's riding instructor, Nelson Pessoa, was best man for the Catholic service.
Kotronakis was the koumbaros , or best man, for the Greek ceremony. Ricardo Miranda, the groom's father, walked the bride down the aisle. According to one account, "Athina didn't cry. Doda did. The buzz among guests was that Athina's father and stepmother weren't there, and while Kotronakis confirms that they were not invited, he adds that Athina's half-siblings—Erik, then 20, Sandrine, 18, and the youngest, Johanna, 14—did attend, despite press reports that only Sandrine came.
I heard that Doda signed a prenuptial agreement, but I don't know what was in it. The newlyweds and their guests danced to a piece orchestra, which played bossa nova until the sun came up. Guests consumed 1, bottles of Veuve Clicquot champagne, according to one local paper. The couple led a low-key life, rarely going out at night or turning up on the party scene. Instead they spent their days training and their free time traveling with their horses to competitions around the world. Before the wedding Athina joined Avlona, an Athenian equestrian club.
In , Athina and Doda began participating in the Global Champions Tour, a new annual series of equestrian events with 15 rounds of competition held at locations around the world. Top riders compete in show jumping for cash prizes that are among the largest in the sport. From the start the couple always appeared at GTC events together, but since Doda's alleged infidelity came to light, Athina has gone alone, often appearing downcast and conspicuously not wearing her wedding ring.
An examination of GTC rankings suggests that marital troubles may have affected their performance. Athina was ranked 13th in and 88th in Doda was 24th in , 74th in As they began their married life together, the couple were joined by five-year-old Viviane, Doda's daughter with Cibele Dorsa, and then, about four years later, by Fernando, Cibele's year-old son from her first marriage. The children's mother, beset by a drug problem and mental health issues, asked Athina and Doda to oversee their upbringing.
Me, I like the tranquillity we have. She left despondent notes on her Twitter feed and sent a letter to the Brazilian magazine Caras with a message to Doda. It was just the first in a series of catastrophes for Athina and Doda, a pattern that would bring back talk of the Onassis curse and ultimately result in the end of their marriage. A year after Cibele's death Athina fell from her horse and broke two vertebrae, an injury that kept her from competing for several months.
In December , a year and a half after Athina returned to the ring, her beloved mount, AD Camille Z, failed to clear a jump and fell. Athina was competing in the Credit Suisse Grand Prix event in Geneva, when the year-old gray horse crashed into an oxer—a show jumping obstacle—and broke a back leg.
It took 45 minutes to tranquilize the mare and transport her by crane to a veterinary facility. Heartbreaking photos show Athina weeping as she learns the horse had to be put down. Athina took another break from competing, spending much of the winter in Wellington, a wealthy enclave in southern Florida where the peripatetic equestrian crowd gathers from late winter until mid- spring.
The new residence offered access to horses and to the riding community. Unfortunately, it is also where Doda allegedly ended up in bed with one of the couple's acquaintances. See all the latest news from Greece and the world at Greekreporter. Contact our newsroom to report an update or send your story, photos and videos. Follow GR on Google News and subscribe here to our daily email!
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