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A private Greek Orthodox funeral was held for her on 20 November at a chapel on the Onassis-owned island of Skorpios, where she was buried in the Onassis family plot alongside her father and brother. [11] Onassis willed her fortune, worth an estimated $250 million (equivalent to $644 million in 2023), to her only child, Athina. [8]
Alexander Socrates Onassis was born at the Columbia University Medical Center in New York City. [2] He was the elder child of the Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis (1906 –1975) and his first wife, Athina Livanos (1929 –1974), herself a daughter of the Greek shipping magnate Stavros G. Livanos.
Livanos was 17 at the time of their marriage; Onassis was 40. Onassis and Livanos had two children, both born in New York City: a son, Alexander (1948–1973), and a daughter, Christina (1950–1988). Onassis named his legendary super-yacht after his daughter. To Onassis, his marriage to Athina was more than the fulfillment of his ambitions.
When Aristotle Onassis, the Greek shipping magnate, met Maria Callas, the great opera diva, in 1957 they were both married to others.But that didn’t stop them from falling in love and having an ...
Kennedy believed that Onassis' money and power could provide her family protection. Her first husband, President John F. Kennedy, was assassinated in 1963, followed by her brother-in-law, Robert ...
Funeral home to the stars Frank E. Campbell allows the families of celebrities to bring in their famous loved ones' own makeup artists, hairdressers and stylists to make A-Listers look their best ...
Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, and his state funeral took place on November 25, 1963, in Washington, D.C. As President Kennedy lay in state, foreign dignitaries—including heads of state and government and members of royal families—started to arrive in Washington to attend the state funeral on Monday. [1]
Athina Maria "Tina" Onassis Niarchos (née Livanos; Greek: Αθηνά (Τίνα) Λιβανού, pronounced [aθiˈna ˈtina livaˈnu]; 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 Zafirakis.