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She was known best as the first wife of Aristotle Onassisbut she later married her older sister Eugenia's widower, Stavros Niarchos.

It was October 10, when Tina Livanos was found dead in a hotel suite in Paris. Her death was attributed to excessive use of barbiturates. In the next room, her husband Stavros Niarchos was sleeping unaware of the tragedy. Daughter of the patriarch of Greek shipowners Stavros Livanos, Tina was born in and grew up as a beautiful princess living between London and New York. 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. Gifted with stunning looks, Tina Livanos attracted the attention everywhere she went. Two of the men who were mesmerized by her beauty were shipping tycoons Aristotle Onassis and Stavros Niarchos.

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I met Athina Onassis Roussel, the last direct descendant of the shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis, on a hot day in July , when she was a tall, coltish, shy girl of Wearing a long-sleeved white jacket over a summer dress, Athina stayed close to her father, Thierry Roussel, all afternoon, speaking French in a soft, hesitant voice, never making eye contact with the distant relatives he introduced her to, always standing slightly behind him, as if he were a shield between her and the world. The next time I talked to Athina, five years later, she seemed a different person. She had separated herself from her father and moved out of his house, and she was immersed in a bitter legal battle with him to win control of her fortune. Hearing that I was writing an article about her, she called me at my hotel in Athens and peppered me with so many questions in fluent, nearly unaccented English that I hardly had an opportunity to ask her any of my own. My investigation into the battle between Athina and her father over the Onassis wealth has produced what may be the first clear picture of their complicated situation since Christina Onassis died in , leaving her three-year-old daughter as her only heir. On this issue, too, Athina has made a complete about-face. In the fall of she renewed the Greek passport her mother had obtained for her. This past January she joined an Athenian equestrian club called Avlona in the hope of riding in international competitions, including the Olympics, in Beijing, wearing the blue and white of the Greek flag. And when the former president of the Greek Equestrian Federation, Isidoros Kouvelos, enrolled her in the club under the name her mother used to register her birth—Athina Christina Roussel—a close friend of the young heiress asked him what she would have to do to change her name officially from Roussel to Onassis.

Tina livanos

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. Marriages and family Known as Tina, she was married three times. Her husbands were: Aristotle Onassis 28 December — ; with him she had two children, Alexander Onassis — and Christina Onassis — She divorced him upon her discovering that he was having an affair with the opera singer Maria Callas. After her divorce from Aristotle Onassis, Livanos dropped her married name and used her maiden name, until her marriage to the Marquess of Blandford.

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At the same time, Niarchos exalted the boredom of the very wealthy. Tools Tools. Toggle limited content width. ISBN Log In. When, however, she did the same and started an affair with the young Brazilian millionaire and playboy Reinaldo Herrera, Onassis was furious. Article Talk. The two men, who were now related by marriage, started an insane competition. Already have an account? Email address. John Spencer-Churchill, Marquess of Blandford. Retrieved 22 June She is found dead in a hotel suite in Paris, dead from barbiturates overdose. The Onassis family On April 30, , Tina Livanos brought to life in a New York clinic a boy to be named Alexandros, and two years later, on December 11, , a girl to be named Christina. Marchioness of Blandford.

She was known best as the first wife of Aristotle Onassis , but she later married her older sister Eugenia's widower, Stavros Niarchos.

Less than two years later, though, the unlikely marriage was overshadowed by a great tragedy. It was October 10, when Tina Livanos was found dead in a hotel suite in Paris. Onassis married the widower of her sister and arch rival of her former husband, Stavros Niarchos. However, Onassis and her son Alexandros openly opposed her choice. Gifted with stunning looks, Tina Livanos attracted the attention everywhere she went. For Niarchos himself the marriage was the fulfillment of a decades-long wish and a response to Onassis. Was Eugenia killed or murdered? Her death was attributed to excessive use of barbiturates. She is found dead in a hotel suite in Paris, dead from barbiturates overdose. Register Already have an account? Finally, in , with Tina only 17, Stavros Livanos gave Onassis his blessing. By the end of the cruise, Onassis could no longer hide his love for Maria, something that made his wife leave the yacht in a hurry. The former Mrs. Log In.