Tina Onassis Niarchos
| Tina Onassis Niarchos | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Athina Mary Livanos 19 March 1929 Kensington, London, England |
| Died | 10 October 1974 (aged 45) Paris, France |
| Spouse(s) |
Aristotle Onassis (m. 1946; div. 1960) John Spencer-Churchill, Marquess of Blandford (m. 1961; div. 1971) Stavros Niarchos (m. 1971) |
| Children |
Alexander Onassis (1948–1973) Christina Onassis (1950–1988) |
Athina Mary "Tina" Onassis Niarchos (Greek: Αθηνά (Τίνα) Λιβανού, pronounced [aθiˌna ˌtina livaˈnu], née Livanos; 19 March 1929 – 10 October 1974) was the second daughter of the Greek shipping magnate Stavros Livanos and Arietta Zafirakis. She was best known as the first wife of Aristotle Onassis, but she later married her older sister Eugenia's widower, Stavros Niarchos. She was older sister to her parents' only son, George Stavros Livanos.
Known as Tina, she was married three times. Her husbands were:
After her divorce from Aristotle Onassis, she dropped her married name and resumed her maiden name, Livanos, until her marriage to Spencer-Churchill.
In October 1971 she married her third husband, Stavros Niarchos, her sister's widower. Her son with Onassis, Alexander Onassis, died at the age of 24 in January 1973 as a result of injuries sustained during an airplane crash in Athens. Her daughter, Christina Onassis, sued Stavros Niarchos, her mother's widower, for her mother's estimated US$250 million (in 1974 dollars) estate claiming the marriage should be annulled under Greek law. Christina later dropped the lawsuit and Niarchos returned all of his wife's money as well as her jewelry, artwork and other personal effects to Christina.
Athina Niarchos died on 10 October 1974 in the Hôtel de Chanaleilles, the Parisian mansion that she shared with her husband. Her death was officially ruled by pathologists as having resulted from an acute edema of the lung, but has also been attributed to her suffering a drug overdose. She was buried next to her sister at the Bois-de-Vaux cemetery in Lausanne, Switzerland. Her only living descendant is her namesake granddaughter, Athina Onassis, Christina's daughter.
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