The lovely Livanos sisters, Eugenia Niarchos and Athina Onassis, 1956
At the time, the sisters were married to two of the world's richest shipping magnates, Stavros Niarchos and Aristotle Onassis
Stavros and Eugenia Niarchos
Tina and Aristotle Onassis
In 1960, Athina divorced Onassis after discovering that he was having an affair with the opera singer Maria Callas
The following year she married John Spencer-Churchill, Marquis of Blandford, and were together for ten years before divorcing in 1971, just a year before Spencer-Churchill became the Duke of Marlborough.
She might have lost out on becoming a ‘Duchess’ but consoled herself by quickly marrying for a third time. In what would be considered a scandalous twist, just a year after her sister Eugenia was found dead from an overdose at home on the Niarchos family's private island Spetsopoula, Athina married her late sister’s widower, Stavros Niarchos in 1971
Athina Livanos Niarchos died on October 10th, 1974, at the Parisian mansion that she shared with her husband Stavros.
Her death was officially ruled as being a result of acute edema of the lung, but it has been long believed that she suffered a drug overdose after being despondent over her son Alexander’s death in a plane crash in 1973.
She was buried next to her sister at the Bois-de-Vaux Cemetery in Lowzawn, Switzerland.
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