Onassis planned to remarry

Press, 23 November 1988, Page 10

Onassis planned to remarry

NZPA-Reuter Buenos Aires Christina Onassis’s fourth husband arrived in Buenos Aires yesterday to transport her body back to Greece as a newspaper reported the multi-millionairess had been planning within 15 days to marry for a fifth time.

Thierry Roussel, the French pharmaceuticals millionaire who was divorced from Ms Onassis last year, went to the Greek Orthodox Archbishopric in central Buenos Aires where the embalmed body,

dressed in a white gown, was lying in a glass-topped coffin. Mr Roussel is the father of Ms Onassis’s only child and sole heiress, three-year-old Athina, who is in Switzerland. He flew in from Geneva on a Swissair flight to arrange to transport his former wife’s body to her native Greece. The “Clarin” newspaper reported yesterday that Ms Onassis, who was 37, was planning to marry the brother of one of her best friends, Marina Dodero, who found Ms Onassis’s unconscious body at her

home outside the capital on Saturday morning. Quoting sources within the Buenos Aires Greek community, the newspaper said Ms Onassis had planned to marry Ms Dodero’s brother, Jorge Tchomielkgjoglou, of the shipping family within the next 15 days. An Argentinian judge said earlier yesterday the cause of Ms Onassis’s death was acute pulmonary oedema, a large amount of fluid in the lungs, possibly caused by a heart attack.