Well, He Didn't Want A Ship

Illawarra Mercury

Thursday October 23, 2003

THE gift that Greek shipping heiress Athina Roussel, 18, chose for her Brazilian boyfriend might not match the elegance of the flawless gems her grandfather Aristotle Onassis poured on Jacqueline Kennedy.

But the price was quite high, for a cow.

The world's richest teenager has paid $464,000 for the prize cow Esperanca (Hope) at a cattle auction in Sao Paulo as a gift for her boyfriend - Olympic horseman Alvaro Affonso de Miranda Neto, known as Doda. Doda, 30, has a cattle farm. Local media said it was Ms Roussel's first major deal in Brazil although she had visited the country several times previously to see Doda.