- Stavros Niarchos III
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name = Stavros Niarchos
birthdate = birth date and age|1985|4|17
location =New York City, New York
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occupation = Kiteboarder
notable role =Stavros Niarchos III (born
17 April 1985 ) is a professional kiteboarder and an heir to a Greek shipping fortune.Family
Niarchos is of Greek, Irish, Austrian, and
Mexican ancestry, Niarchos was born inNew York City and grew up inParis ,France . He is the elder son ofPhilippe Niarchos and his third wife, the former Victoria Guinness, herself the granddaughter of the socialiteGloria Guinness , [http://www.maltagenealogy.com/libro%20d'Oro/said6.html Genealogy Source, Noble House of Said] ] . His namesake grandfather, shipping tycoonStavros Niarchos , was a rival ofAristotle Onassis .Niarchos is a first cousin, once removed of
Athina Onassis , whose maternal grandmother, Tina Onassis, was Niarchos's great-aunt as well as the fifth wife of his paternal grandfather. TheAga Khan IV is his great-uncle.. [Gloria Guinness's fourth and last husbandLoel Guinness (1906-1988) was married firstly to the Aga Khan's mother, the former Hon Joan Yarde-Buller. Their son Patrick Benjamin Guinness (an elder half-brother to the present Aga Khan IV) married his step-sister Freiien (Baroness) Dolores von Fürstenberg-Herdringen, daughter of Gloria and her second husband Franz-Egon, Count von Fürstenberg-Hedringen.] His sister is the jewelry designer and socialiteEugenie Niarchos (born 1986).Education
Stavros Niarchos was a student in the Collège Stanislas in Paris. His senior year of high school was spent at
Seabury Hall , a college preparatory school located inMakawao onMaui, Hawaii . [ [http://www.ikointl.com/articles_kids.php?menu_id=5 TEACHING - Kids and kiteboard] ; June 2003 article on youth kiteboard training on Maui] After high school, Niarchos attended theUniversity of Southern California Film School where he graduated and received his diploma in May 2007. Foster, Alistair (5 May 2006) "Billionaires who loved and lost Paris." [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4153/is_20060505/ai_n16357109 Evening Standard (London)] ]Celebrity
A tall, athletic, brown haired person, Niarchos is best-known for dating
Paris Hilton [ [http://www.nypost.com/seven/05152007/gossip/pagesix/petra_at_play_pagesix_.htm "Petra At Play"] , "New York Post", May 15, 2007] ,Mary-Kate Olsen andLindsay Lohan [Walls, Jeannette (3 May 2006 ) [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12583653 "Did Lindsay Lohan steal Paris Hilton’s man?"] , MSNBC via MSN, 'The Scoop' Column.] . He also appeared with actressKate Bosworth in her January 2005 "GQ" magazine spread.Footnotes
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