Kill Bill? This pair would rather kill each other

In the new Quentin Tarantino film Kill Bill Vol 2 there is an

extraordinary catfight between Daryl Hannah and Uma Thurman. I hear

that in real life, too, these two fine actresses have a positively poisonous

dislike for each other, which certainly led to some tension when they were

both in London for the film's premiere.

The two were furious when they found the movie company had booked them into

the same hotel, the Dorchester. And when the time came for both to head off

to the premiere in Leicester Square, Miss Thurman would not leave her room

until she was told by Miss Hannah's assistant that Daryl was downstairs

waiting.

'Uma was seething when she arrived downstairs and had to wait several

minutes for Daryl, who had apparently been delayed in her room,' says one of

the film's lesser stars.

'When Daryl finally did come down, Uma snapped "typical" at her, and they

ignored each other all night. It's an ego thing.'

My disclosure last week that the world's wealthiest teenager, Athina

Onassis, is planning a summer wedding with her Brazilian lover has led to an

extraordinary outburst of condemnation from her fiance's enraged ex-wife,

actress Sibele Dorsa.

Miss Dorsa, 29, who was dumped by showjumper Alvara Alfonso de Miranda Neto

- known as Doda - shortly after he met Athina, has branded her ex-husband a

gold-digger and is threatening to start an ugly battle for custody of their

threeyearold daughter, Viviane.

From her home in Brazil she tells me: 'Athina threw herself at Doda because

she was in search of a father figure. Her worst fear growing up was that her

father (Thierry Roussel) would take all her money.

She fears the money (the

£8million annual allowance he had from an Onassis trust for bringing her up)

was the only reason he took care of her.' She revealed that a judge has

awarded temporary custody of Viviane to Doda, 31, who has moved her into his

flat in Brussels where he is living with Athina.

'My daughter has a very strong personality for her age and whenever I speak

to her on the phone she says she wants to stay with me. I'm determined to win

her back. I'm very worried that Viviane is being exposed to the curse of the

Onassis fortune. My advice to Athina is to have her own child.'

Doda's

embittered ex also claimed that if Athina goes through with her plan for the

wedding she may follow in the tragic footsteps of her mother, Christina

Onassis, marrying a 'virtually penniless' man who loves her 'only' for her

money.

She claims that Doda admitted to her that when he first met the heiress he

thought she was 'ugly and fat'. But since their romance began, Athina has

been undergoing a strict diet and exercise regime supervised by Doda, who

also arranged for her to have liposuction surgery at a clinic in Sao Paulo.

A lawyer for 19-year-old Athina, who last year inherited the first

£600million of her family's Greek shipping fortune, confirms my story that

the horse-mad heiress, who has ambitions to ride in the Athens Olympics, is

intending to marry Doda in the summer.

Speaking from his office in Rio de Janeiro, Dr Roberto Halbouti adds that an

Onassis family employee, Alexis Mantheakis, had been instructed to prepare a

picture book about Athina's life which will be published in Brazil and the US

to celebrate her nuptials.

'The idea is that the book will end with the story of how she fell in love

with a Brazilian man who has made her very happy,' says Dr Halbouti.

Meanwhile, friends of Athina's father, Thierry Roussel, claim that he is

also furious about her plans to marry Doda.

But, inevitably, there are comparisons between Doda and Thierry himself, who

was branded a fortune-seeking playboy when he pursued Aristotle Onassis's

only daughter Christina, who had to pay him a £22 million dowry before he

would marry her.

The trauma suffered by

novelist Joanna Trollope after her divorce from dramatist Ian Curteis three

years ago led her to a nervous breakdown. So I am heartened to hear her faith

in men has been restored to the extent she now enjoys the company of FOUR

boyfriends.

'I'm happy to say I can call on four lovely chaps to entertain me,' the

elegant Miss Trollope, right, told me at the Authors of the Year reception at

Hatchards bookshop in Piccadilly.

'There's one I go out to dinner with, one to go for long walks with and

another for the theatre. But my favourite is a classical musician.' Vicar's

daughter Joanna, 61, who has made millions from her Aga sagas, declines to name

her escorts, but does not rule out marrying again.

'I'm very happy as I am,

but I suppose one should never say never.' After her acrimonious divorce she

is back on civil terms with Curteis - now married to the late Earl of

Listowel's daughter, Deirdre - although their conversation is mostly

restricted to dogs.

'When we parted we had two labradors so we had one each,' she explains. 'I

kept Max, who has been my most loyal male companion for 11 years.'