Onassis returns to her husband

Press, 16 August 1978, Page 8

Onassis returns to her husband

NZPA-Reuter Moscow The shipping millionairess, Christina Onassis, back with her new Russian husband, Sergei Kauzov after a flurry of divorce rumours. is expected to go flat hunting with him in Moscow today. The couple were reunited «n Monday night nine days after the 27-year-old Christina suddenly put off a Siberian honeymoon and flew alone to Athens. After flying into Moscow, she issued a statement saying she had only been away on business and could be making other business trips from time to time. Her sudden departure, four days after her Moscow wedding, sparked speculation that the marriage was in trouble and Greek newspapers said that relatives were pressing Christina to give up Mr Kauzov, her third husband. Mr Kauzov, a former Soviet shipping official who met her while working in

Paris, was not at the airport to meet his bride. They were reunited at the two-room suburban flat of his mother, Mariya Sergeyevna, and later drove together to the airport to pick up her luggage. Of the divorce rumours, Mrs Sergeyevna said, “Only for people who do not understand love should there be any questions.” Mr Kauzov said at the! week-end that he was searching for a flat — a hard task in Moscow where the State controls nearly all homes — and hoped Christina would help v.’hen she returned. It was thought that the ) couple, who were apparently spared the delays usual when I Soviet citizens marry foreigners, might get clearance: to buy a co-operative flat. Meanwhile, Miss Onassis, one of the world's richest women, will live in her mother-in-law’s modest home in a south-west Moscow I suburb. '