These disputes were mostly ended (or quieted) in 1999 by the court-ordered transfer of the administration of Athina's trust to a private auditing firm.
[citation needed] He formed the financial management company SGFC in 1987 whereas he is claimed to remain its president.
[5] Roussel used his company Oderfruta to invest in the farms, with a borrowed subsidy from the European Union, funding from the Portuguese state and an unknown bank.
[7] During Athina's childhood and adolescence, all expenditures made on her behalf by her father, funded by Onassis inheritance, had to be approved by the Board in advance.
This led to Roussel threatening to move back to Paris, where income taxes would cost the estate a "small fortune a year".
[7] In 1999, a Vaduz court ordered the management of Athina's inheritance transferred from the Board to the KPMG Fides auditing firm in Lucerne.
Generally, the story is reported the same way, with the strong suggestion that theirs was a marriage based rather on convenience or infatuation than true love.
[4] In any case, Christina and Roussel began divorce proceedings eight months after Athina was born.