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Fine unread condition white boards/blue cloth spine/silver spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by William Wright; Author Dedication; Preface; Index; and About the Author. Illustrated with two sections of black-and-white photographic plates. "The sudden death of Christina Onassis, at age thirty-seven, shocked the world. Not only was it the tragic culmination of an extraordinary life, but it also marked the end of the legendary empire created by Christina's flamboyant, wily father, Aristotle Onassis. With her dark Greek looks and melancholy eyes, Christina has come to be seen as an epic sufferer, her life representative of the almost inevitable failure of extremely rich heiresses to find happiness and emotional satisfaction. In this revealing biography, best-selling author William Wright delves behind the headlines that chronicled Christina's life to explore her privileged but peril-filled world. Drawing on interviews with more than 100 friends, associates, and family members, many of whom have never before spoken publicly about Christina -- including her stepsister, her fiance and last lover, and her closest woman friend during the final years -- the author offers an intimate portrait of this enigmatic young woman that far surpasses anything previously written about her. Here is the compelling story of a childhood spent in incredible luxury, with an overbearing but rarely present father, and a mother preoccupied by her social life. Christina witnessed her father's blatant affair with Maria Callas, hated his marriage to Jackie Kennedy, and endured his meddling into her own personal life. Within a two-year period, she lost her brother in a fluke plane crash, her mother to a suspected drug overdose, and her father to a fatal illness. Alone at twenty-four, Christina became the sole heir to the Onassis fortune and one of the richest young women in the world. Christina had a reported tax-free income of $1 million a week, but she was beset with problems. She suffered from a chronic weight problem and violent mood swings, and was unwise in her choice of men. All four of her marriages failed, the last being her unique relationship with the handsome Frenchman Thierry Roussel, who fathered her only child, Athina. A bright, strong-spirited woman, she struggled to overcome the staggering jolts that life dealt her and to extract some happiness from her fortune. As William Wright reminds us, Christina had many positive and solid accomplishments, notably her remarkable success with her shipping company at a time when all other shippers were failing, and her shrewd deflection of Jackie's greed after her father's death. She was generous with her friends and lovers, and enthusiastic about her unlimited resources, treating herself to the fast-paced life and luxuries her riches permitted -- taking her private helicopter to go skiing, flying to La Jolla because she missed the surf, living like a queen on her Greek island of Skorpios. But Christina was never able to buy anything more than fleeting happiness. Her short and turbulent life was unlike any other -- a life that, with all its jewels, jets, and yachts, reads like a modern-day equivalent of a Greek tragedy. Written with compassion and insight, All the Pain That Money Can Buy is a t once a fascinating study of the world of the extremely rich and a riveting drama of one woman's life." -- from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 006620
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