Scavenging through rubbish bins, how desperate times have pushed Olga Onassis from riches to poverty | Mail Online
German newspaper Bild spoke with her this week as her debt ridden nation lurched into violence and chaos once more.
She looks like any old bag lady scavenging for cast-offs in the rubbish as the world looks the other way.
But this is no ordinary woman - she is Olga Onassis, 90, a woman linked by marriage to one of the richest dynasties in the world.
She has now fallen, like her country, on desperate times. She is a regular at a church soup kitchen in the Greek capital Athens and roots around in the overflowing garbage containers of the city for clothes.
Riches to rags: Olga Onassis, 90, has become a
symbol of the modern Greek tragedy that is playing out with the eurozone
as she rummages through rubbish for anything of use
Olga Onassis' husband Georgios was the cousin of Aristotle Onassis, the fabulously wealthy Greek shipping tycoon who married President John F. Kennedy's widow Jackie in 1968.
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