A trivial proverb says that the children of the poor have dreams, and the children of the rich - nightmares. There hardly is any other fate than that of Christina Onassis, to demonstrate more convincingly the veracity of this saying. One of the richest women in the world throughout her whole life feels depressed and unwanted, and pursues happiness by all means. To go from the world right at the moment when it seems that the joy and warmth are finally knocking on her door. Exactly 19 years ago.

            When on the 11^th of December, 1950 in a luxury maternity hospital in New York Hristina was born, her father, Aristotle Onassis sighs with a relief that his second child was a girl. When a few months earlier his wife Tina Livanou said she was expecting a baby again, Aristotle was unpleasantly surprised - the family already had one son and an heir of the empire, the two year old Alexander. A second child would only complicate the situation and he constantly convinced her to terminate the pregnancy.

            In her early childhood Hristina felt no special affection from her family - her father was constantly busy with his business, her mother didn’t care much for the upbringing of the children, she and her brother Alexander were left to the care of a nanny. As it was fashionable in those days in Greece wealthy heirs to be educated in Swiss boarding schools, so Hristina and Alexander also went soon to live in the foothills of the Alps. Unlike the other children, however, whose parents often visited them and had to spend major holidays in a family environment, the children of Onassis were rarely visited by anybody. When their father visited them, he usually spoke to them about the importance of preserving the family wealth and what a responsibility it was to bear the name Onassis. These were not words that some lonely children expected from their father.

            Christina was 8, and Alexander was 10 years old when they found that things between their mother and their father did not go well. Tina Livanou would remarry an English marquess and although her children were accepted and loved as their own in the castle Bladford, they did not have the same feelings. In the life of Aristotle also appeared a new woman – the opera diva Maria Callas, who also tried to win if not the love, at least the endears of the two children. They, however called her until the last moment with the contemptuous name The singer.

            Meanwhile, children grew up. Alexander very early became aware of his irresistible charm among the women, and Hristina at the age of 17 made the first two plastic surgeries in her life to improve her appearance. With the first she removes the huge black circles under her eyes, which she had since her birth, and with the second she changed her nose. Nevertheless, she did not have great success among her peers. Then in the life of her father appeared on another woman - Jacqueline Kennedy. For all the Americans Jacqueline Kennedy might have been a fashion icon and a role model, but for the children of Onassis she was another nightmare which they had to survive. They gave her the derisive nickname The widow and were horrified by the fact that their father got wed to her.

            Shortly after the wedding of her father upon the advice Hristina got engaged to Petros Goulandri, an heir to the famous shipping family. The girl, however could not agree to a marriage without love, if only to merge the two resources into one and outrageously breaks her engagement. It was now clear that the only thing she wanted from life was true love and embarked on a pursue of it with all means. At the age of 21 she met her first husband - Joseph Bolkar, a 48-year-old American who was engaged in real estate. They met by the side of the pool in the hotel where both were staying in Monte Carlo. Hristina was especially fascinated by the fact that he liked her before he found out her family name. From the moment he learned it to the wedding ceremony in Los Angeles it was only a matter of time. Joseph Bolkar, however could not take for a long the varying moods, depression and whimper of Hristina and 7 months after the marriage they divorced.

            The true Greek tragedy for the Onassis family, however began in January 1973 when Alexander crashed in a plane flown by himself and after a few days he died in hospital in Athens. Aristotle was crushed with grief, and so is Hristina, who loved her brother. At the funeral was also the mother Tina, the next tragic image of the family. Eighteen months after losing her brother, Hristina learned about her mother's death caused by excessive use of sleeping pills. Her father did not attend the funeral due to his own failing health. After a year and a half more Hristina must also attend his funeral. Jackie Onassis was trying to show before the photojournalists her truce with the last Onassis, but Hristina was not a person of pretense.