Editing Athina Onassis (section)

===Disputes over Onassis estate===
Onassis' mother Christina never trusted Thierry Roussel completely, which led the family to arrange for a board of administrators to control the family's money until Athina came of age.<ref name="mantheakis" /><ref name="nicholasgage" /> The trustees Christina selected to manage the estate were Stelio Papadimitriou, [[Paul Ioannidis]], Apostolos Zabelas, and Theodore Gabrielides.<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.greeknewsonline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4126 |title= Stelio Papadimitriou's obituary| website= greeknewsonline.com| publisher= | date= |access-date= }}{{Dead link| date=September 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name= "klein">{{cite news|last= Klein| first= Edward |title= The Battle Over the Golden Girl| work= Vanity Fair |date=November 1997}}</ref> During Athina's childhood and adolescence, all expenditures made on her behalf by her father (using money from the inheritance) had to be approved by the board, which led to her father threatening to move back to France, where the estate would have had to pay much higher income tax.<ref name="klein"/>

In 1999, a [[Vaduz]] court ordered the management of Athina's inheritance to be transferred to the [[KPMG]] Fides auditing firm in [[Lucerne]], Switzerland.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hri.org/news/greek/apeen/1999/99-08-12.apeen.html |title=Onassis Foundation not to appeal Swiss court ruling| website= hri.org | publisher= |agency= Athens News Agency|date= December 8, 1999}}</ref> At that time, aged 13, Onassis stated that she felt "great aversion to anything Greek". In one of her few interviews, published in ''Oggi'', an Italian magazine, she later stated that she blamed "all the problems" on the Onassis name. Similarly, her stepmother, Gaby Landhage, stated on American television show ''[[20/20 (US television show)|20/20]]'' that Athina had told her "if she could burn all the Onassis money, she would do it."<ref>{{cite news| url= https://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/01/24/1042911547123.html?oneclick=true |title= Hostage to fortune| website= smh.com| date= January 25, 2003| access-date= }}</ref>

On her 18th birthday, Athina took control of her mother's inheritance.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/lt/date/2003-01-29/segment/08 |title=Heiress Comes of Age (Daryn Kagan interviewing Alexis Mantheakis)|work=CNN.com |author= |date= January 29, 2003<!--, 10.55-->|access-date=May 28, 2022}}</ref> After her 21st birthday in 2006, her lawyers unsuccessfully fought to instate her as President of the Onassis Foundation, as the board claimed she was unqualified and denied that she was an heir to the estate of Aristotle Onassis.<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.onassis.gr/english/estate/index.php |title= The Foundation Estate |website= onassis.gr}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| last= Smith| first= Helena| title= Legal row taints special day for Onassis heiress Athina| work= The Guardian| date= 28 January 2006}}</ref> Invoking her grandfather's legacy in memory of Alexander Onassis, the board's representatives stated that she had no connection with the Greek culture, religion, language or shared experience, that she never went to college, and had no work experience.<ref name="nicholasgage" />