Less than four years later the young heiress moved out of Roussel's home to live in Brussels. She also subsequently renewed her Greek passport which her mother had obtained for her , dropped out of school, and began preparing a legal case against her father to revoke a power-of-attorney document that he had persuaded her to sign. Athina had become increasingly passionate about riding, and when she was 17 she enrolled in an equestrian school, Haras de Ligny, in Fleurus, Belgium, run by Nelson Pessoa, a former Olympic rider from Brazil.
One of the first things Pessoa did was introduce her to another student, Alvaro de Miranda Neto. The romance proceeded swiftly despite the fact that Doda had a two-year-old daughter, Viviane, with his longtime girlfriend, Cibele Dorsa.
The child's mother, a model and actress, had just left Brussels to audition for television roles back in Brazil. On January 29, , a few months after meeting Doda, Athina turned Soon afterward, she traveled with him to Brazil to meet his family. Athina is not extravagant when it comes to clothes or jewelry, but she is willing to pay towering amounts for prize horses and cattle.
Meanwhile, a heartbroken Cibele gave interviews asserting that "Doda exchanged me for Athina's money" and "he always told me he found her fat and ugly. Roussel opposed Athina's romance with Doda from the beginning, which exacerbated the rift in his relationship with his daughter. Then, in , Athina initiated legal proceedings to take full control of her fortune, some of which Roussel had allegedly hidden.
It was the last time she ever heard from Athina. The new couple made another big decision in They got engaged. One of the first people they told was Konstantinos Kotronakis, the honorary Greek consul in Recife, Brazil, whom they asked to be best man.
One thousand guests were mailed magnetic cards granting access through tight security at the outer gates. Sheets of plastic were hung around the open-air structure, so while a crowd of photographers gathered outside the property, the images they managed to shoot through the curtain were blurry.
There were two ceremonies—first a Catholic mass and then a Greek Orthodox liturgy. Rodrigo Pessoa, the son of Athina's riding instructor, Nelson Pessoa, was best man for the Catholic service. Kotronakis was the koumbaros , or best man, for the Greek ceremony.
Ricardo Miranda, the groom's father, walked the bride down the aisle. According to one account, "Athina didn't cry. Doda did. The buzz among guests was that Athina's father and stepmother weren't there, and while Kotronakis confirms that they were not invited, he adds that Athina's half-siblings—Erik, then 20, Sandrine, 18, and the youngest, Johanna, 14—did attend, despite press reports that only Sandrine came. I heard that Doda signed a prenuptial agreement, but I don't know what was in it.
The newlyweds and their guests danced to a piece orchestra, which played bossa nova until the sun came up. Guests consumed 1, bottles of Veuve Clicquot champagne, according to one local paper. The couple led a low-key life, rarely going out at night or turning up on the party scene. Instead they spent their days training and their free time traveling with their horses to competitions around the world. Before the wedding Athina joined Avlona, an Athenian equestrian club. In , Athina and Doda began participating in the Global Champions Tour, a new annual series of equestrian events with 15 rounds of competition held at locations around the world.
Top riders compete in show jumping for cash prizes that are among the largest in the sport. From the start the couple always appeared at GTC events together, but since Doda's alleged infidelity came to light, Athina has gone alone, often appearing downcast and conspicuously not wearing her wedding ring. An examination of GTC rankings suggests that marital troubles may have affected their performance. Athina was ranked 13th in and 88th in Doda was 24th in , 74th in As they began their married life together, the couple were joined by five-year-old Viviane, Doda's daughter with Cibele Dorsa, and then, about four years later, by Fernando, Cibele's year-old son from her first marriage.
The children's mother, beset by a drug problem and mental health issues, asked Athina and Doda to oversee their upbringing. Me, I like the tranquillity we have. She left despondent notes on her Twitter feed and sent a letter to the Brazilian magazine Caras with a message to Doda.
In the message exchange they would discuss if they would go to a swingers club or a sex cinema, or talk about the apartment they had found to meet secretly. In her account, Niki said that Doda would often receive phone-calls from Athina when he was with her and would always be annoyed.
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