Yet, Onassis’ obsession with beautiful women was not over with Tina. On April 30, 1948, Tina Livanos brought to life in a New York clinic a boy to be named Alexandros, and two years later, on December 11, 1950, a girl to be named Christina. Onassis built his own paradise in his private Scorpios island. Onassis’s yacht “Christina” was a floating palace. The two men, who were now related by marriage, started an insane competition. Niarchos’ answer to Onassis’ wedding was unexpected and added a new dimension to the hatred between the two men: A year later he married the equally sought-after, but less beautiful, sister of Tina, Eugenia.
The marriage was also the beginning of an epic rivalry between the two richest Greeks of the time, Aristotle Onassis and Stavros Niarchos. It was the event of the year in the circles of the rich and famous. The lavish wedding took place in New York in 1946, with shipowner Andreas Embirikos as best man. Finally, in 1946, with Tina only 17, Stavros Livanos gave Onassis his blessing. It took many expensive gifts, countless days sailing on his yacht and barbecues. The courting lasted three years, as Onassis was infatuated with the young girl. Now he had another strong motive to beat his rival in marrying the beautiful princess. Livanos gave the same answer he had given to Niarchos. Onassis came second in asking to marry Tina. The father advised him to be patient because there was his other daughter, Eugenia, who had to marry first because she was three years older. Niarchos approached Stavros Livanos first and asked for the hand of young Tina, who was 14 at the time. At the same time, Niarchos exalted the boredom of the very wealthy. Even in the most expensive suit, Onassis looked like a poor man trying to impress, Evans wrote. Two of the men who were mesmerized by her beauty were shipping tycoons Aristotle Onassis and Stavros Niarchos.Īccording to Onassis’ biographer Peter Evans, Onassis was jealous of Niarchos because of his elegance, his aristocratic air, his cosmopolitan finesse. Gifted with stunning looks, Tina Livanos attracted the attention everywhere she went. Tina Livanos (right) with her sister Eugenia She studied in the best colleges, spent holidays in the most cosmopolitan resorts around the world and was associating with princes and kings, famous actors and international celebrities since she was a child. In the next room, her husband Stavros Niarchos was sleeping unaware of the tragedy.ĭaughter of the patriarch of Greek shipowners Stavros Livanos, Tina was born in 1929 and grew up as a beautiful princess living between London and New York. Her death was attributed to excessive use of barbiturates. It was the end of a life that was the stuff of legend, as the beautiful aristocratic woman had married Greece’s biggest shipping magnates: Aristotle Onassis and Stavros Niarchos. Her only living descendant is her namesake granddaughter, Athina Onassis, Christina's daughter.It was Octowhen Tina Livanos was found dead in a hotel suite in Paris. 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.
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. She was buried next to her sister at the Bois-de-Vaux Cemetery in Lausanne, Switzerland. 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. Īthina Niarchos died on 10 October 1974 in the Hôtel de Chanaleilles, the Parisian mansion that she shared with her husband. 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. In October 1971 she married her third husband, Stavros Niarchos, her sister's widower. Her husbands were:Īfter her divorce from Aristotle Onassis, she dropped her married name and resumed her maiden name, Livanos, until her marriage to Spencer-Churchill. Known as Tina, she was married three times. She was older sister to George Stavros Livanos. She was best known as the first wife of Aristotle Onassis, but she later married her older sister Eugenia's widower, Stavros Niarchos. Athina Mary " Tina" Onassis Niarchos ( née Livanos Greek: Αθηνά (Τίνα) Λιβανού, pronounced 19 March 1929 – 10 October 1974) was an English-born Greek socialite and shipping heiress, the second daughter of the Greek shipping magnate Stavros Livanos and Arietta Zafiraki.
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