Stavros Niarchos III

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name = Stavros Niarchos
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location = New York City, New York
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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 in New York City and grew up in Paris, France. He is the elder son of Philippe Niarchos and his third wife, the former Victoria Guinness, herself the granddaughter of the socialite Gloria Guinness, [http://www.maltagenealogy.com/libro%20d'Oro/said6.html Genealogy Source, Noble House of Said] ] . His namesake grandfather, shipping tycoon Stavros Niarchos, was a rival of Aristotle 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. The Aga Khan IV is his great-uncle.. [Gloria Guinness's fourth and last husband Loel 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 socialite Eugenie 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 in Makawao on Maui, 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 the University 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 and Lindsay 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 actress Kate Bosworth in her January 2005 "GQ" magazine spread.

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