Tina Onassis Niarchos

Birthday March 19, 1929

Birth Sign Pisces

Birthplace Kensington, London, England

DEATH DATE 1974-10-10, Paris, France (45 years old)

Nationality London, England

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1929

Athina Maria "Tina" Onassis Niarchos (Αθηνά (Τίνα) Λιβανού, ; 19 March 1929 – 10 October 1974) was an English-born Greek-French socialite and shipping heiress, the second daughter of the Greek shipping magnate Stavros Livanos and Arietta Zafiraki.

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

She was also the elder sister of George Stavros Livanos.

She was married three times.

Her husbands were:

After her divorce from Aristotle Onassis, she resumed using her maiden name, Livanos, until her marriage to Spencer-Churchill.

1973

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.

1974

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 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 by Greek law.

Christina later ended the lawsuit and Niarchos returned all of his wife's money as well as her jewelry, artwork and other personal effects to Christina.

Her only living descendant is her namesake granddaughter, Athina Onassis, Christina's daughter.