ONASSIS GIRL DIES - Tragic heiress Christina drops dead at 38.

Sunday Mirror
20th November 1988

SUPER-RICH shipping heiress Christina Onassis died of a heart attack in Argentina last night. 
 She collapsed in her bath-room while preparing to go swimming at a country club outside Buenos Aires. 
 The 38-year-old daughter of the golden Greek Aristotle Onassis was flown 25 miles by helicopter to hospital in Beunos Aires, but was pronounced dead on arrival. 
 Christina had frequent problems with obesity and weighed 14st, but it is not known if she was having treatment at the time of her death. 
 She was a frequent visitor to Argentina, staying at the country club home of her friends Marina Dodero and her husband Alberto, administrator of her father's estate. 
 Her death was immediately reported to her stepmother Jackie. Widow of assassinated President John Kennedy. 

 As one of the world's richest women, life should have been a bed of roses for Christina. But the millions she inherited from her father brought her little happiness. 
 She fell into four doomed marriages. The fourth, to French business man Thierry Roussel in 1984, finally produced the child she craved. 

Affair

 But even her beloved daughter Athena, now heir to the family's billion-pound fortune, could not save her marriage. 
 Her husband was having an affair with a Swedish beauty and finally Christina gave in and agreed to a divorce. 

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