A trivial proverb says that the children of the poor have dreams, and the children of the rich - nightmares. There hardly is any other fate than that of Christina Onassis, to demonstrate more convincingly the veracity of this saying. One of the richest women in the world throughout her whole life feels depressed and unwanted, and pursues happiness by all means. To go from the world right at the moment when it seems that the joy and warmth are finally knocking on her door. Exactly 19 years ago.

            When on the 11^th of December, 1950 in a luxury maternity hospital in New York Hristina was born, her father, Aristotle Onassis sighs with a relief that his second child was a girl. When a few months earlier his wife Tina Livanou said she was expecting a baby again, Aristotle was unpleasantly surprised - the family already had one son and an heir of the empire, the two year old Alexander. A second child would only complicate the situation and he constantly convinced her to terminate the pregnancy.

            In her early childhood Hristina felt no special affection from her family - her father was constantly busy with his business, her mother didn’t care much for the upbringing of the children, she and her brother Alexander were left to the care of a nanny. As it was fashionable in those days in Greece wealthy heirs to be educated in Swiss boarding schools, so Hristina and Alexander also went soon to live in the foothills of the Alps. Unlike the other children, however, whose parents often visited them and had to spend major holidays in a family environment, the children of Onassis were rarely visited by anybody. When their father visited them, he usually spoke to them about the importance of preserving the family wealth and what a responsibility it was to bear the name Onassis. These were not words that some lonely children expected from their father.

            Christina was 8, and Alexander was 10 years old when they found that things between their mother and their father did not go well. Tina Livanou would remarry an English marquess and although her children were accepted and loved as their own in the castle Bladford, they did not have the same feelings. In the life of Aristotle also appeared a new woman – the opera diva Maria Callas, who also tried to win if not the love, at least the endears of the two children. They, however called her until the last moment with the contemptuous name The singer.

            Meanwhile, children grew up. Alexander very early became aware of his irresistible charm among the women, and Hristina at the age of 17 made the first two plastic surgeries in her life to improve her appearance. With the first she removes the huge black circles under her eyes, which she had since her birth, and with the second she changed her nose. Nevertheless, she did not have great success among her peers. Then in the life of her father appeared on another woman - Jacqueline Kennedy. For all the Americans Jacqueline Kennedy might have been a fashion icon and a role model, but for the children of Onassis she was another nightmare which they had to survive. They gave her the derisive nickname The widow and were horrified by the fact that their father got wed to her.

            Shortly after the wedding of her father upon the advice Hristina got engaged to Petros Goulandri, an heir to the famous shipping family. The girl, however could not agree to a marriage without love, if only to merge the two resources into one and outrageously breaks her engagement. It was now clear that the only thing she wanted from life was true love and embarked on a pursue of it with all means. At the age of 21 she met her first husband - Joseph Bolkar, a 48-year-old American who was engaged in real estate. They met by the side of the pool in the hotel where both were staying in Monte Carlo. Hristina was especially fascinated by the fact that he liked her before he found out her family name. From the moment he learned it to the wedding ceremony in Los Angeles it was only a matter of time. Joseph Bolkar, however could not take for a long the varying moods, depression and whimper of Hristina and 7 months after the marriage they divorced.

            The true Greek tragedy for the Onassis family, however began in January 1973 when Alexander crashed in a plane flown by himself and after a few days he died in hospital in Athens. Aristotle was crushed with grief, and so is Hristina, who loved her brother. At the funeral was also the mother Tina, the next tragic image of the family. Eighteen months after losing her brother, Hristina learned about her mother's death caused by excessive use of sleeping pills. Her father did not attend the funeral due to his own failing health. After a year and a half more Hristina must also attend his funeral. Jackie Onassis was trying to show before the photojournalists her truce with the last Onassis, but Hristina was not a person of pretense.

            In the next years followed three failed marriages. First with the rich Greek heir Alexandros Andreadis, which lasted two years. According to some people it breaks because of the failure of the couple to give birth to an heir, according to others - because of the unwillingness of Hristina to consolidate the wealth of the two families. Somewhere in this period started her relationship with pills, alcohol and round the clock drinking. To everyone's surprise, however, at the times when she was sober Hristina was a true daughter of her father. She was good with business, she took the right decisions, and was truly fascinated by shipping.

            Thus she came to her third marriage with the head of tankers department in the state shipyards of the former Soviet Union at the time Sergei Kauzov. This time the wedding was not in a church, but in the Moscow ritual house followed by a reception at the Greek Embassy in Moscow. If she had a sense of humor and looked positively at life, Hristina would have been amused by the fact that once again she was on the front page of Western, and Eastern newspapers. This marriage also did not last long.

            The daughter of Onassis was once again in the grip of alcohol when she accidentally remembered her old flirt with the handsome Swiss Thierry Roussel. She quickly gave up the alcohol, she lost 11 kilograms, regained her good mood and went to present herself before him. This time the wedding was arranged and thus Thierry Roussel gave Hristina the largest gift in her life – he gave her a daughter Athena. Hristina had never been so happy, she closed her eyes to the frequent infidelities of her husband and insisted on a second child. He, however was no longer interested even in the money of Hristina because he met the Swedish model Gaby Landaz who stole his heart. Although Hristina was paying him 100,000 dollars every time he slept with her, once again the divorce became a fact soon enough.

            As after every one of her divorces, this time again on the agenda came the alcohol, chocolate, feasts and she regained her lost weight. This time a plastic surgery came to help. After liposuction in a Swedish clinic Hristina met George Tsomlektsoglou – an Argentinean of Greek origin and follows him to Buenos Aires. The difference this time was that Hristina already valued the lives of ordinary people. In Argentina, she got involved into the problems of the Greek immigrant society and was determined to help them with the Orthodox Bishop of Argentina she discussed the details of her future wedding. Until one night after a relaxing bath her closest person found her - her governess from her childhood to note the end of the woman who rarely smiled.