1/35Former Sydney underworld figure John Macris before he moved overseas to Greece. Picture: Supplied
Executed gangster John Macris’ life with TV model wife
Former underworld figure John Macris had a luxurious life in Greece where he and his wife, Viktoria Karida, raised their children. This is how it unfolded before he was murdered.
2/35Viktoria Karida winning the Miss Tourism beauty contest in Greece in 2003, years before she met John Macris. Picture: Supplied
3/35Viktoria Karida poses during a photo shoot after dying her hair blonde. She speaks English, Ukrainian, Russian and Greek. Picture: Supplied
4/35Viktoria Karida and John Macris at their 2016 wedding on the Greek island of Mykonos. Picture: Supplied
5/35Viktoria Karida, former Playboy model and partner of slain Australian gangster John Macris, on their wedding day in 2016. Picture: Instagram
6/35Viktoria Karida is now a popular reality TV star in Greece where she appears on the show My Style Rocks. Picture: Instagram
7/35TV star Viktoria Karida, a former Playboy model and partner of slain Australian gangster John Macris. Picture: Instagram
8/35John Macris’ luxury home in Athens, Greece. Picture: Angelos Christofilopoulos/ News Corp
9/35A side view of John Macris’ luxury home in Athens, where his pool can be seen. Picture: Angelos Christofilopoulos/ News Corp
10/35The back of John Macris house in Athens. Picture: Angelos Christofilopoulos/ News Corp
11/35The view from where John Macris lived in Athens. Picture: Angelos Christofilopoulos/ News Corp
12/35John Macris’ vespa, which he was using everyday while he lived in Athens. Picture: Angelos Christofilopoulos/News Corp
13/35Ukrainian-born Viktoria Karida appeared in many photo shoots like this as her career took off in Greece. Picture: Supplied
14/35Former Playboy model Viktoria Karida on the catwalk. Picture: Supplied
15/35Viktoria Karida is extremely successful in her work overseas as a model. Picture: Supplied
16/35Facebook image of Viktoria Karida, the wife of murdered Sydney gangster John Macris. Picture: Supplied
17/35Viktoria Karida, former Playboy model and partner of John Macris in happier times. Picture: Instagram
18/35Viktoria Karida has her own distinct sense of style, which her fans love. Picture: Instagram
19/35As a model, Viktoria Karida knows how to strike the right pose for the camera. Picture: Instagram
20/35Viktoria Karida walking on the catwalk at the Athens Xclusive Designers Week for Kathy Heyndels - the same night her husband Sydney gangster John Macris was gunned down in a street outside their home in Athens, Greece. Picture William Faithful
21/35The crime scene where former Sydney gangster John Macris was gunned down in the chest in a seaside suburb of Athens. He had just alunched a new security business. Picture: Proto Thema
22/35Bloodstains at the spot where John Macris was killed. Picture: Angelos Christofilopoulos/ News Corp
23/35The area across the road from John Macris’ house where he was killed in his car. Picture: Angelos Christofilopoulos/News Corp
24/35Viktoria Karida, John Macris wife, arrives at home days after her husband was killed. Picture: Angelos Christofilopoulos/News Corp
25/35John Macris’ vespa outside his house in Greece days after he was gunned down. Picture: Angelos Christofilopoulos/News Corp
26/35John Macris’ father arrives at his son’s home after he was gunned down. Picture: Angelos Christofilopoulos/News Corp
27/35Viktoria Karida, John Macris’ wife, arrives at the Macris residence after her husband was executed. Picture: News Corp.
28/35Viktoria Karida, wife arrives at an Orthodox church to attend John Macris’ funeral at Voula, a suburb south of Athens. Picture: AP
29/35Victoria Karida at her husband’s funeral. He was killed in Athens. Picture: Angelos Christofilopoulos/ News Corp
30/35Victoria Karida, wife of John Macris, is comforted at her husband’s funeral. Picture: Angelos Christofilopoulos/ News Corp
31/35Viktoria Karida after the funeral of her husband John Macris. Picture: Angelos Christofilopoulos/News Corp
32/35A closer view of John Macris’ casket at St Nektarios Church in Voula, Athens. Picture: Angelos Christofilopoulos/News Corp
33/35Victoria Karida , wife of John Macris, surrounded by friends and fmaily at the funeral of John Macris. Picture: Angelos Christofilopoulos/News Corp
34/35John Macris’ casket is taken out of the church at his funeral in Greece. Picture: Angelos Christofilopoulos/ News Corp
35/35John Macris’ mother holding a child’s hand at his funeral. Picture: Angelos Christofilopoulos/News Corp
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