Tina Onassis Niarchos Family and Marriage Life
Tina Onassis Niarchos was a shipping heiress and socialite. She was the second daughter of Stavros Livanos, a Greek shipping businessman, and Arietta Zafrikakis who came from a prominent Greek family. Tina grew up in a privileged and influential environment with her family legacy and power exposing her to well off people in society. She married Stavros Niarchos and Aristotle Onassis, two Greek millionaires, and shipowners who thrived in the shipping business. She was considered as one of the most beautiful women. Tina died in 1974 at the age of 45 in her home in Paris from a blood clot in her leg that moved to her heart blocking the circulation of blood in the body.
Family Life of Tina Onassis Niarchos
Athina Maria Onassis Niarchos popularly known as Tina was born on March 1929 to Stavros Livanos and Arietta Zafirakis. She grew up in London and New York. Her parents were well off and took her to the best schools, learned Greek, English, and French, and traveled a lot interacting with men and women of influence all over the world. She had two siblings George Stavros and Eugenia. Tina was beautiful and always attracted wealthy men into her life.
Details of Tina Onassis Niarchos’s Marriage Life
She was married to Aristotle Onassis in 1946 and had two children, Christina born in 1950, and Alexander Onassis in 1948. Tina was 17 and Onassis 40 when he married her after courting for three years. He sailed on his yacht for many days and sent expensive gifts to win her over and had a social wedding of the year among the rich and famous in 1946. Her marriage brought rivalry between Onassis and Niarchos. They separated in 1960 due to his infidelity with Maria Callas an opera singer and won the custody of her children.
In 1961, she married John Spencer, the 11th Duke of Marlborough, and after ten years they separated. Tina’s sister Eugenia passed away in 1970 under mysterious circumstances and the family officially said she died from excessive use of barbiturates.
In 1971, she then married her sister’s widower, Stavros Niarchos, in a beautiful wedding with the approval of her family, and stayed together till the time of her death in 1974. Niarchos had an elegant wealthy aura, superior energy, and cultural diversity. He approached Tina for her hand din marriage when she was 14 but her father refused as he had an elder daughter Eugenia and wanted to marry her off first.
Tina’s son Alexander was involved in a plane crash in Athens and unfortunately died in 1973 at the age of 24 from injuries. In 1975, Onassis passed away with people close to him thinking he was troubled and never recovered from the death of his son.
Tina’s daughter Christina sued her stepfather Stavros Niarchos wanting their marriage to be nullified as he was taking over her mother’s property. They later came to an agreement and she dropped the case and Niarcho returned Tina’s estates worth around $250 million, artwork and jewelry.
