little poor rich girl

Rumors say that in 2008 Athina Roussel de Miranda and her Brazilian husband Alvaro de Miranda Netta were seriously considering of moving to Greece.

Among their plans was to built a beautiful house in the land Athina inherited by her grandfather Aristotelis Onassis in the south of Athens and invest money on horse-riding. All they asked was the greek nationality for Alvaro.

The greek part though was negative. The law says that, before getting the nationality, one should either already be living in Greece for a certain time period or have honored the country in anyway. Alvaro's connection to Greece was only his rich French-Greek wife.

After getting a negative answer that wouldn't allow Alvaro to participate to the Beijing Olympics with the greek national team, Athina sold her grandfather's land in Glyfada. She then tried to sell the Scorpios island to Turks businessmen for 500 million euros, despite the sensitive relations between Greece and Turkey.

Her attempts to sell the Skorpios island started in 2004. The price was 300 million euros and among the interested buyers it is rumored to be Madonna and Bill Gates. Athina recently succeeded to sell it despite her grandfather's will.

Ekaterina Rybolovleva, daughter of the Russian tycoon Dmitry Rybolovlev, is the new owner of one of the greatest symbols of status in the world after paying 130 million euros.

Athina finally got rid of what her grandfather and mother loved. Christina Onassis visited Scorpios every summer and her beach parties were famous. She preferred the East Beach, which was created by Onassis who brought sand from Salamis island for this purpose.

Aristotelis Onassis bought the island in 1963 for 3.5 million drachmas (about 10.000 euros) from Philippa family who lived in Chicago permanently. They had bought it six years earlier from the Mavroudis family whose members were the owners since the 17th century.

Scorpios has 800 acres that are heavily forested featuring a rich variety of trees and plants. Onassis also ordered the construction of a standalone water-system.

On the island there are three villas, a chapel, a small marina and a stone jetty.

For five whole years 200 builders, gardeners, mechanics etc worked every single day on the island where Aristotelis Onassis married Jackie Kennedy in 1968.

At the same chapel which stands in the middle of a 30-acres-land, there are the graves of Aristotelis, Alexandros and Christina Onassis.

In his will Aristotelis Onassis made clear his wish for his beloved private paradise: his inheritants couldn't sell it and in case they were not able to keep it they should give it to the greek public.

Even in this case though, the 30-acres-land where his and his children graves are, should never be given away.

Athina managed to find the way to break her grandfather's will and give away the place that he and her mother loved most.

Hopefully, Ekaterina will appreciate more what her father gave to her and respect the history of this legendary piece of land in the Ionian Sea more than Athina Roussel de Miranda.