New home for Madame Onassis de Miranda (translation/summary)

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Athina has bought a villa in the Belgian province of Antwerpen, says the Belgian De Standaard. She has bought the villa for 2.4 million euros. The newspaper estimated her total fortune at 2.5 billion euros. Media sources are forever over-and-underestimating her fortune, so I always take their estimates with a grain of salt. The paper goes on to say that Athina and Doda have purchased this villa, which is in the residential district of Lint, from project developer Hans Lauwerysen. They quoted the security guard who is stationed at the gate of the villa. He said that his is only the security guard, "to keep an eye on things," and he cannot tell anything!" Good man!!!!! The journalists from the paper questioned the immediate neighbors. They were disappointed. None of the neighbors have seen the couple. They have seen a Rolls Royce going in, but nothing else to indicate the couple. A lady who lives directly opposite to Athina's newest residence, one Sylvia Campbell, told the reporters that Athina and Doda have chosen well, that it is a blessing to live in this area, and the properties are priceless. However, said the lady, if she had as much money as Athina supposedly has, she would have bought a place nearer the water!!!! Sylvia said she will be nice to them if they are nice to her! She said she might even light a grill for the couple! She said she previously had neighbors from the oil industry, who "swam in money" with private planes and classic cars.
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The new Onassis-Miranda home lies about midway between two places where the couple necessarily spend much time. That is, about an hour each way between Stal Tops-Valkenswaard (Netherlands) and Haras de Ligny in Fleurus, Belgium. The couple have made Belgium their home for many years. They met in 2002 when the teenaged Athina joined the jumping school of Nelson Pessoa (at Haras de Ligny) where Doda was already longtime trainee. In the years prior to their marriage (in December 2005) the couple spent much of time in Brazil. However, after the start of 2006, and their return to the European jumping circuit, they resettled semi-permanently in Belgium, where they have been raising Doda's daughter and stepson.