HEIRESS :: The Story of CHRISTINA ONASSIS

• Hardback book with Dust Jacket by Nigel Dempster
• First Edition 1989
• Copyright © 1989 by Nigel Dempster/Pinebray Limited and Peter Evans

" She was King Midas's golden daughter, the crown princess of a shimmering world of privilege, adventure and passion, and heiress to one of the largest fortunes in the world.
She was Christina Onassis. "

" Filled with the intrigue and glamour of Christina's exotic world, and echoing with names like Maria Callas, Jacqueline Kennedy, and Stavros Niarchos, Heiress is the story of one of the richest and most publicized women ever.
It is also the story of a woman trying to gain love and approval from her father, the powerful Aristotle Onassis, whom Christina alternately battled and adored until his death in 1975 left her the world's richest woman at twenty-four. "

" Despite her gilded existence, Christina's life was haunted by tragedy:
shortly after her beloved aunt died from a mysterious overdose, her mother married her sister's widower.
Within a year of each other, her brother and mother died untimely and shattering deaths.
Then her stepfather, her father's archrival, cruelly exposed an attempt by Christina to commit suicide, claiming it has caused her mother's death.
And each of her four marriages ended as abruptly and impulsively as they began.
When Christina herself died mysteriously and suddenly in Argentina in 1988, the story made headlines all over the world. "

" In Heiress, the noted journalist Nigel Dempster, a longtime Onassis observer, tells Christina's story - one of money, sex and drama among the very rich - revealing for the first time how she came to be a woman so desperate for love and acceptance but so unable to find either. "

Contents includes:

" List of Illustrations

1 All heiresses are beautiful

2 The days before we just had to sign for whatever we desired

3 Children begin by loving their parents ...

4 Society is a hospital of incurables

5 For this is the sort of engagement, you see ...

6 Anything may be expected and anything may be supposed of a
woman who is in love

7 Blessed is the wooing that is not long a-doing

8 And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of the past is due

9 I am all the daughters of my father's house ...

10 To say that you can love one person all your life ...

11 I like you, I love you. I want you all the time ...

12 Love lasteth as long as the money endureth

13 A love without indiscretion is no love at all

14 While your friend holds you affectionately by both hands
you are safe

15 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending ...

16 It might make one in love with death, to think ...

Index "

Both the book and dust jacket are in good condition with minor wear.
No torn or ripped pages.
No markings or writing.
There are a few pages with bent edges.

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