Doda Miranda

Álvaro Affonso de Miranda Neto (born 5 February 1973), more commonly known as Álvaro de Miranda or "Doda" Miranda, is an Olympic-class Brazilian show jumping rider. He was married to Athina Onassis. He is president of the organizing committee behind the Athina Onassis International Horse Show, which debuted in 2007 as the fifth stage of the Global Champions Tour in São Paulo. In 2008, the AOIHS-São Paulo event was the final phase of the tour. For the tour in 2009, the host city of the AOIHS was Rio de Janeiro.

Early life and family Miranda is the son of businessman Ricardo Miranda and his first wife, psychologist Elizabeth "Beth" Pires de Castro Miranda. Miranda has a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Rio Branco College. He studied for one year at a university in Brussels, and again at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

In June 2009, Miranda ranked #2 in the Monte Carlo grand prix of the Global Champions Tour. He ranked 18th, with 32 points, leading into the GCT final in Doha, Qatar, in November 2009. His performance in Doha ( 11–14 November 2009) was unremarkable at first, but he gained third place in the final, an event with a purse of €300,000.

In November 2009, Miranda (on AD Picolien Zeldenrust) was the third-place winner of the Global Champions Tour final in Doha. He actually had the fastest time, but his penalty placed him behind Michel Robert (first place) and Jos Lansink (second place).

In December 2009, Miranda (riding AD Peanuts) won the Salon du Cheval – Ceneca Trophy at the Gucci Masters in Villepinte, just north of Paris.

Horses With his ex-wife, Athina Onassis de Miranda, he owns the AD Sport Horses company, which breeds and trains horses and is based at Haras de Ligny, the compound owned by the father-son team of Nelson and Rodrigo Pessoa in Fleurus, Belgium. In December 2009, at the Gucci Masters, Miranda confirmed that the company was moving to his and his wife's new property in the Netherlands early in 2010.

List of horses AD Picolien Zeldenrust (b. 1997, Dutch Warmblood chestnut mare); AD Chatwin (b. 1993, bay gelding, Holsteiner, retired after leg injury in July 2008); AD Ornella (b. 1999, sold in December 2009 to Hernan Crespo via Jan Tops); AD Norson (b. 2001, chestnut stallion); AD Como II (b. 1997, bay gelding, Holsteiner); AD Peanuts (b. 1994, chestnut mare); AD Untouchable (b. 2001, grey stallion); AD Ashleigh Drossel Dan (b. 1998 grey gelding, Hannoverian)Australian bred.

Personal life His first relationship with Cibele Dorsa, a fashion model, produced daughter Viviane on 1 January 2000.

Cibele Dorsa committed suicide on 26 March 2011 at 36. Her suicide-note publication in Brazil's gossip magazine Caras was forbidden by Miranda's attorneys due to mentions relating him to Dorsa's suicide.

His marriage to Athina Onassis ended in 2016, following a legal separation. By the beginning of 2018, their divorce was finalized.

In September 2018, he married Denize Severo, with whom he has two children: Dodinha and Giulia Severo de Miranda.