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document  exclusive Dimitris Liberopoulos book "NIARCHOS'

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 I first encountered Stavros Niarchos face to face four months before I got to know Aristotle Onassis, the man who defined my career as a journalist, and whose shadow | I NIARXegobecame for years to come. I met Niarchos in mid-May 1959 when the Creole was moored in the Bay of Vouliagmeni, outside of Athens. It was the most elegant and expensive yacht in the whole world at that time, a three-masted ebony masterpiece. I was | an avid hunter of front-page news, and as always I stalked my game with a photographer beside me. This particular day we decided to lay in wait on the beach, hoping for a few words from Niarchos, and maybe a picture of the already world-famous shipowner. I remember hoping that he would be entertaining some young beauty on his ship, in which case a place on the front page would be a sure thing. In Greek we call a shipping magnate a Stolarchos, meaning the commander of a fleet, something much more than a shipowner. In truth many of these mercantile fleet owners, these Greek shipping magnates, were more powerful than navy admirals.What was Niarchos at that time, thirteen years after his acquisition of his first Liberty ship? He was a famous fifty-year-old opulent, Greek Stolarchos. He owned his own private island, Spetsopoula, and he privately entertained kings, assorted bluebloods and nobility, heads of government and celebrated artists. He was also renowned for his passion to enrich his private collection of great impressionist painting. Along with Aristotle Onassis and Stavros Livanos (the father-stolarxoi3in-law of both Niarchos and Onassis), they represented the most famous and powerful triumvirate of "Golden Greeks," who governed seas and oceans with their fleets. Not that there weren't other Greek sea-rulers, for | example, the families of Laimos, Goulandris, Embeirikos, Pateras and Hatzipateras, Kouloukountos, and others. But the two brothers-in-law with their wives, the two fashionable and beautiful daughters of Livanos, the great shipowner from Chios, occupied the social columns of the foreign press almost daily. It was time of great public interest in all kinds of blue bloods - stars and legends of Hollywood, of the opera and the ballet, and rising political leaders who made up the new aristocracy.

Onassis, the most flamboyant of the great shipowners, had at his service the pen of Hollywood's arch-gossip-columnist, Elsa Maxwell, and he often entertained on his yacht, the Christina, Winston Churchill the veteran Father of Victory of World War II. So from the beginning, Onassis was the front-runner, as they say at the races. He led the field in the race to gain the attention of prominent personalities. Already Kennedy, Greta Garbo, Elizabeth | Taylor and Richard Burton, but also heads of state had visited his yacht at Monte Carlo, (over which he ruled for some time) to pay their respects to Churchill. The kings of Greece and Belgium, whom Niarchos entertained, did not measure up to the stature of Churchill. So the fifty-year-old collector of paintings was envious | and on the lookout for a counterattack to win the first prize of prominence from his brother-in-law. 

The rivalry between Niarchos, the man from Piraeus, and Onassis, the man from Smyrna, had begun after World War II, in New York City, when both acquired a Liberty ship and coveted the same woman, none other than the youngest daughter of the great shipowner Stavros Livanos. The beautiful Athena, finally married Onassis. The unyielding Niarchos asked in marriage Athena's oldest sister, Eugenia, so the two brothers-in-law sharpened their swords during the holiday and Sunday afternoon dinners their father-in-law held at the Plaza Hotel in New York, or | at his estate in London.

Twelve years had passed since that time, but the rivalry of the two (who were becoming even richer year-by-year) continued. They competed over who get the biggest tanker, the most luxurious yacht, the most private island, the most blue-blooded and super-star guests, the most expensive houses and villas at the | farthest reaches of the earth; and finally, who would accumulate the most wealth....

During all those years of abundant harvests and successes, had children and gave the impression of being exemplary family men, but, as they were most healthy and robust (as Costas Gratsos  told me), they clandestinely fooled around with models, starlets, social courtesans and whores, the women most well-known for their beauty and social standing. Both of them had first tasted sex and had proved their virility in common brothels: Aristos in those of Smyrna, and Stavros in those of Piraeus. Consequently, the whole idea of purchased sex was a standard habit of theirs, with the difference that, after their marriage, they used their yachts as | bachelor flats. Then Greta Garbo, Elizabeth Taylor and some NIARXnixtaFrench actresses [to drink them in a glass] came on the "Christina" at Monte Carlo, and Niarchos (who saw the pictures | in newspapers and magazines) was furious with envy.As a journalist always on the hunt for the amorous escapades of | the notorious rich and famous, I was pricked by the suspicion that the one of the two rival brothers-in-law who decided to create an erotic scandal would become front-page news and would surpass the other in the battle for publicity.

PHOTO: 1. Ocean Guardian (300.000) 2. Niarchos - Liberopoulos - Theotokis 3. Stavros Livanos - St. Niarchos - Ar. Onasis 4. Stavros Niarchos

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Rudy Nureyev

( photo: file Dimitris Liberopoulos )

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Eugenia and Stavros Niarchos (Herodian theatre)  *** Stavros-Rudy kiss russian style

Niarchos rejoiced as he had the time he seduced Nureyev away from Onassis's close group of friends; Nureyev, that god of dance, who, nevertheless, almost caused problems for Niarchos with his two sons. It was the time when Rudy developed a close friendship with his sons, Philip and Spyros, and, accompanied by that handsome young man, Mario Tarta, and that fantastic doll, Matoula (who danced on the tables for Onassis), they scared the hell of him.

The old man recalled all this and got furious retroactively; on the one hand, Rudy pursued that handsome son, Philip, and on the other, Matoula got together with Spyros. He had asked to see his sons and reprimanded them heavily. Both excused themselves: "But dad, what are you saying ... if we don't play around now when we are young, we run the risk of doing so when we are old, like uncle Aris."

skertsoThe cunning birds, he had thought, they tell the mother-in-law so the bride hears it.... They are right. I'll let them have fun now in Mykonos, and in the winter, I'll tie them up. So, there they were, free, loose, on the island of gays, along with Mario and Matoula. The things they conceived, the scandalous babes, as Tsiforos would say; they introduced a gorgeous dame, named Pilar, to Spyros, telling him she was royalty; Niarchos's second son went crazy over this girl. They spent days and nights together, drinking champagne and eating caviar; all this for the princess. Meanwhile, Matoula Nureyefwas a free bird to enjoy herself, Mario became an item with Helmut Berger (Visconti's gay protagonist - another pan-hedonist!), and Philip was flattered by Nureyev's desire for him. The Russian drank a load, one FIX beer after another, a habit he had acquired at The Katina's of Paleo Faliro, accompanied by Odysseus and Maria Pahos, Alkis Giannakas, and Scalindo.        

If Matoula or Maria Pahos were to talk, a book could be written, drawing a picture of Sodom and Gomorrah behind the glamorous veneer of resounding names of wealth and art. Recently, someone asked Matoula why she does not write a book; she responded: But why, Kolonaki and Mykonos will become empty places!

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R. Nureyev: self-love * Marios Tartas-Helmut Berger: disire *  Rhilippos Niarchos: young-beautiful-millionaire * Rudy: before the end

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* reportage and frendship: R.Nureyev-D.Liberopoulos-Margo Fontein  * D.Liberopoulos-Margy Tarsoulis-R.Nureyev

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