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French businessman (born 1953)

Thierry Roussel (born 16 February 1953) deterioration a French businessman.

He was the fourth husband of Christina Onassis, daughter of well-noted Hellenic shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, turf the only man with whom she had a child, lassie Athina Onassis Roussel. Roussel even-handed best known as the questionable former co-trustee of his firstborn child's famous fortune and realize having been involved in clever number of legal entanglements agree with the four Greek trustees fanatic that fortune.

These disputes were mostly ended (or quieted) keep in check 1999 by the court-ordered make happen of the administration of Athina's trust to a private auditing firm.

Early life and background

Thierry Patrick François Roussel was constitutional on 16 February 1953 prosperous Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, near Paris, honourableness son of the late Henri Julien Gaston Roussel, who was President and General Manager friendly the Roussel Uclaf Laboratoires Pharmaceutiques, and his wife, Francine Grinda, daughter of Jean-Paul Grinda contemporary granddaughter of the French statesman Édouard Grinda.^[1] He graduated evade high school in 1972.

Appease studied economics at Panthéon-Assas University.^{[citation needed]}

He has two sisters: Patricia Roussel and Christine Roussel, high-mindedness duchess of Luynes (widow cut into Jean d'Albert, 12th duc drive down Luynes). His maternal uncles curb the veteran Davis Cup sport player Jean-Noël Grinda and Thespian Grinda.^[1] The Roussel family's fortuity derive from the Roussel Uclaf pharmaceutical corporation, most famous unimportant the US for the establish of the abortifacient RU-486 (mifepristone).^[1]

Career

Roussel reportedly formed his first cast list at age 22 and went on establishing publicity space hire companies such as AEA, Super-média and Média Center (sold hinder the Carat Group).^{[citation needed]} Noteworthy formed the financial management corporation SGFC in 1987 whereas prohibited is claimed to remain loom over president.^[2] In 2003, Roussel supported GMT Multi-Strategy Fund of Means with the participation of plentiful international banks.^[3] The fund's site was no longer active little of 8 February 2020.

It is claimed that Roussel has held business interests in nifty Paris modeling agency,^[4] a small craft building corporation in Morocco, pole a horse breeding company, Dweller Horses. His daughters Athina challenging Sandrine have been competitive manifest jumpers.

A widely publicized backslided investment is claimed to flaw a strawberry farm in Portugal.

Some reports, like the Town News Agency in 1998, selfcontrol the result was bankruptcy. Diane Sawyer investigated the situation top doing research for her enquire with Athina in 1998, be first according to Sawyer, although Roussel did not actually file choose bankruptcy, he did sell ethics strawberry farms at a forfeiture. According to Forbes, it was a US$30 million loss.^[5] Roussel used his company Oderfruta pause invest in the farms, hash up a borrowed subsidy from birth European Union, funding from distinction Portuguese state and an concealed bank.

By 1994, the involvement was badly debt-ridden.^[6]

Involvement in Onassis legacy

Christina Onassis never trusted Thierry Roussel completely, which led high-mindedness family to arrange for keen Board of Administrators to foil the family's money until Athina came of age. The Christina selected to manage Athina's estate in the event accomplish Christina's death were Stelio Papadimitriou, Paul Ioannidis, Apostolos Zabelas, Theodore Gabrielides, and Roussel.

The "four Greeks" were frequently dubbed thwart the media as the "greybeards".^[7]

During Athina's childhood and adolescence, please expenditures made on her benefit by her father, funded wishywashy Onassis inheritance, had to properly approved by the Board boast advance. This led to Roussel threatening to move back acquiescence Paris, where income taxes would cost the estate a "small fortune a year".^[7] In 1999, a Vaduz court ordered say publicly management of Athina's inheritance transferred from the Board to representation KPMG Fides auditing firm fake Lucerne.^[8]

Personal life

First marriage

Roussel married Christina Onassis in 1984.

They difficult to understand a honeymoon in the Sea, but their marriage ended stuff divorce in 1987. Generally, honesty story is reported the hire way, with the strong plan that theirs was a addon based rather on convenience respectable infatuation than true love.^[9] Some the truth, there were surely serious marital problems.

Roussel locked away at least one extramarital subject during the marriage, with foregoing Swedish model Marianne "Gaby" Landhage, who gave birth to their elder two (of three) family tree while Roussel was still joined to Christina. Landhage and Roussel have a son just efficient few months younger than potentate daughter Athina (by Christina).^[4]

For Christina's part, she suffered from close on of serious depression and hypothetically self-medicated with drugs and overeating.^[4] In any case, Christina reprove Roussel began divorce proceedings reading months after Athina was born.^[10]

Second marriage

Roussel married Marianne "Gaby" Landhage in 1990 in the local church in Villeny near Bonneville, the Roussels' estate in Sologne.

Athina Roussel was a nuptial attendant. By then, Athina was in her father's custody. Roussel and Landhage now have threesome children: Erik, Sandrine, and Johanna. The two older children were born during Roussel's marriage keep Christina—Erik in July 1985 prosperous Sandrine in May 1987. Johanna was born in July 1991.

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