First marriage
Roussel married Christina Onassis in 1984. They had a honeymoon in the Caribbean, but their marriage ended in divorce in 1988. Generally, the story is reported the same way: a deeply-in-love (and three-times divorced, disturbed, and drug-addicted) Christina taken advantage of by Roussel, though he was certainly not poor as he had been raised in a very wealthy French family.[3] Whatever the truth, there were certainly serious marital problems. Roussel had at least one extramarital affair during the marriage, with former Swedish model Marianne "Gaby" Landhage, who gave birth to their elder two (of three total) children while Roussel was still married to Christina. Christina and Roussel began divorce proceedings eight months after Athina was born.[4]


Second marriage
Roussel married Gaby Landhage in 1990 in the village church near the Roussels` Bonneville estate. Athina Roussel was a bridal attendant. By then Athina was in her father`s custody and was being raised by the motherly Landhage, whose care of her stepdaughter has been widely praised. Gaby and Athina enjoy a warm relationship to this day. Roussel and Gaby now have three children: Erik, Sandrine, and Johanna. The two older children were born during Roussel`s marriage to Christina -- Erik in July, 1985, and Sandrine in May, 1987. Johanna was born in July 1991. Roussel and Gaby raised all four children in Lussy-sur-Morges, near Lausanne Switzerland, with ski trips to Saint Moritz and summers on Ibiza or Mustique. To silence critics who claimed that Athina was being isolated from her mother`s heritage, the Roussels spent some time on Skorpios and visiting historic places in Athens

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