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  Teen becomes one of world's richest people
Updated 29 January 2003, 10.35

Athina Roussel with her father Thierry Roussel
A teenager has just become one of the richest people in the world.

Athina Roussel has just turned 18 and can now have the £2.5 billion left to her by her family.

The Onassis family owned a huge shipping business in Greece and have been famous since the 1960s.

Fact File
What else she'll get
A priceless art collection
Houses in England, France, Switzerland and Argentina
Her own Greek island, Skorpios
Athina's grandfather Aristotle set up the business.

He died two years after a 1973 plane crash that killed his son Alexander.

Tragic family

When Athina was three her mum Christina died, apparently from a drugs overdose.

Her dad Thierry Roussel and his Swedish wife brought up Athina.

Her step-grandmother was Jackie Kennedy, the wife of assassinated US president John F Kennedy.

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