Rich as a stone but dead unhappy

Of course you knew that not all that glitters is gold, even when everything is just glittering gold. Two sad examples: Mireille Gram and Athina Onassis.

Mireille Gram is the daughter of the founder of the Kipling empire. Indeed, of those bags with a cheerful little monkey hanging from them. Well, that has not brought him any financial windfalls, but also a daughter who felt chronically neglected.

For Mireille, life was so dark that stepping out with her twin daughters seemed the only way out. She wrote five farewell letters and would cut her daughters' throats with a firm motion while they slept. That didn't work. The daughters woke up and managed to overpower her. In the end, Mireille received – only – five years in prison due to her psychologically unstable condition.

Meanwhile, her fortune seems to be helping her not at all. While she is in the Bruges prison, her ‘beloved’ first removed the entire contents of one of her houses. He is said to have taken 700,000 euros worth of jewelry and art. It wasn't enough, so not long ago he went to the prison to have Mireille sign a document giving him permission to sell her house for far below its value. Instead of the 1.4 million it is worth, he sold it for 700,000 euros. Little in relation to the value of the property, but enough for Mo to buy a new Porsche and a new set of teeth and to spray champagne with it. Father angry, daughters disappointed, and whether her beloved will now offer a shoulder to cry on...

Athina Onassis
How did it go again? You had the fabulously wealthy Aristotle Onassis, the second husband of Jackie Kennedy. He had two children: Alexander and Christina. Alexander died in a plane crash, Christina had a daughter, Athina, with her fourth (!) husband Thierry Roussel. She divorced Roussel because he had fathered two children with his mistress and died when Athina was three.

Her father married his mistress and they took Athina to Switzerland. Apparently, she did not have a happy childhood and there was much interest in her fortune, as Athina was set to inherit a fortune of two and a half billion in the form of houses, art, jewelry, the island of Skorpios, and a private jet. Her distrustful mother had assembled a board that had to approve every expenditure of Athina's fortune. This greatly irritated her father.

Anyway. Athina found her happiness in horses and was a very good show jumper. There she met her husband: Álvaro Affonso de Miranda Neto.

From the fact that her father and his wife were not allowed to be at her wedding and that she changed her name to Athina Onassis de Miranda, we can conclude that they were not exactly on speaking terms.

Unfortunately, history also repeated itself in Athina's life. Her husband cheated on her frequently, leading to a divorce, eleven years after their marriage. He demanded, of course, alimony and they fought over certain horses they owned together.

And oh yes, that board that approved all her expenses had little good to say about the spoiled Athina. No education, no affinity with Greek culture, and no work experience made her, in their eyes, no memorable successor to her grandfather.

Poor Athina, at least she still has her horses. They don't care how much money you have or don't have.