Reclusive Athina Onassis, heiress to $2.7 billion fortune, is unrecognisable as she makes first public appearance in 3 years at charity event in Paris

A notoriously reclusive heiress who has not been seen successful nationalist for 3 years has made a astonishing quality astatine a foundation gala - and appears to person opted for a caller look.

French-Greek socialite Athina Onassis, who reportedly splits her clip betwixt a tiny municipality successful the Netherlands and Belgium, was snapped astatine an creation lawsuit hosted by the Amis du Centre Pompidou successful Paris past month.  

The 40 year-old equestrian is the girl of French businessman Thierry Roussel and socialite Christina Onassis, whose begetter was Aristotle Onassis, proprietor of 1 of the largest shipping fleets successful the world.

However, contempt inheriting a billion-dollar luck arsenic a subordinate of the dynasty, tragedies successful Athina's beingness person led to suggestions she's a unfortunate of the 'Onassis curse' which has befallen respective members of her highly affluent family. 

When Athina was conscionable 3 years aged her parent Christina, 37, was recovered dormant successful the bath tub. On her 18th birthday, Athina was fixed entree to her precocious mother's $2.7billion fortune.

In her big years Athina has ne'er been a instrumentality of the spotlight and mostly kept her idiosyncratic beingness nether wraps. 

However, aft the breakdown of her ten-year matrimony to 'Doda' Álvaro de Miranda Neto successful 2016, she astir wholly withdrew from nationalist beingness altogether.

A keen showjumper, the sportswoman was past snapped successful June 2022, erstwhile she competed astatine the Longines Paris Eiffel Jumping amusement astatine Champ de Mars.

Athina - who does not person immoderate children - is often photographed sporting a solemn expression, her signature bleached hairsbreadth and her riding cogwheel - however, she looks astir unrecognisable aft re-appearing connected the precocious nine scene. 

In the representation - which was taken connected March 11 - she has switched retired her aureate tresses for cocoa brownish strands, which she wore successful an elegant blow-dry.

Although she is often seen with small to-no-makeup, the secretive socialite wore a glamorous afloat look of cosmetics, including blush, contour, mascara and eyeshadow, with her lips looking fuller than successful erstwhile years. 

Athina donned a sheer achromatic lace dress, on with a glitzy sequin blazer and wore a metallic jewelled crucifix astir her neck. She posed for a representation with Ines de Cominges, the only girl of Count and Countess Rafael de Cominges of Madrid, and creator Arnaud Cabri-Wiltzer.

She has lone been seen a fistful of times since her ex-husband was reportedly recovered successful furniture with a one-night basal successful the $2million location that Athina bought successful Wellington, Florida successful 2016. 

DailyMail.com learnt that 'Doda' Miranda, who was formerly portion of Brazil's Olympic showjumping team, was discovered successful furniture with the pistillate by his wife's information team.

A well-connected subordinate of the planetary amusement jumping circuit told the Mail that Athina's information team busted him 'having enactment with different woman'.

'He begged them not to accidental anything, but 1 of them went consecutive to Athina. She instantly packed her bags and went disconnected to Europe,' the root said. 

'It was seemingly a one-night stand, determination was thing superior going connected betwixt them.' 

Miranda spoke to Brazilian mag Epoca astatine the clip and said: 'I americium truly successful the midst of a storm. But I volition not springiness up connected my love.

'It won't beryllium casual but I volition combat until the end.'

Miranda has since gone connected to wed different woman, writer Denize Severo, and has welcomed 2 children.

Athina's matrimony breakdown is not the archetypal heartbreak she has endured - aft tragically losing her parent astatine the property of three. 

In her aboriginal childhood, Christina bonded with her girl and gave Athina her ain flock of sheep, implicit with a shepherd, erstwhile she learned the nursery rhyme Baa Baa Black Sheep. She besides gave her a backstage zoo. 

It was antecedently reported that Christina had died of a bosom onslaught brought connected by years of eating disorders.

Athina was reportedly the richest teenage miss successful the satellite erstwhile she inherited her mother's $2.7billion luck erstwhile she turned 18.

However, her luck has been severely managed implicit the years, experts say, and she sold Aristotle's backstage Greek island, Skorpios, to Russian billionairess Ekaterina Rybolovleva successful 2013 for an estimated $100million.

Despite being 1 of the wealthiest families successful the world, the Onassis dynasty has famously been plagued by tragedy. 

A decennary and a fractional earlier, Christina had mislaid her full household successful small much than 2 years. Her 24-year-old member Alexander was killed successful a level clang successful January, 1973, and their mother, besides called Athina, died of a cause overdose the pursuing year.

Aristotle, who ne'er recovered from his lad and heir's death, past passed distant from bronchial pneumonia successful March 1975.

Christina had 4 marriages, nary of them lasting much than 3 years. Athina (whose begetter was Christina's last husband, French pharmaceutical heir Thierry Roussel) was her lone child.

Athina is present the lone surviving Onassis grandchild of Aristotle.

Thierry Roussel fathered a lad with Swedish exemplary Gaby Landhage portion Christina was pregnant, and the mates divided soon aft Athina was born.

After Christina's death, Athina went to unrecorded with Roussel and Gaby.

Athina is believed to person nary interaction with her begetter and has adjacent dropped his past name. 

Thierry was besides not among the 1,300 guests invited to her December 2005 matrimony to Miranda successful a specially constructed Roman Catholic religion astatine a edifice successful Sao Paulo. Instead, Miranda's begetter Ricardo led her down the aisle.

Miranda told a Brazilian mag successful 2011 that they intended to commencement a household wrong a fewer years.

'Athina is inactive precise young,' helium said, adding that having a babe would interrupt her budding showjumping career.

'I besides person a precise engaged life,' helium said. 'When a babe comes I privation to trim the fig of competitions to beryllium much present.'

Athina reportedly became large successful 2013 but suffered a miscarriage. 

Miranda said that Athina spent overmuch of her clip looking aft Vivienne, his girl with exemplary Cibele Dorsa, who killed herself successful 2011.