Philip Niarchos was born on 1952 and is a Greek billionaire, the eldest son of the Greek shipping magnate Stavros Niarchos and Eugenia Livanos, herself the elder daughter of Stavros Niarchos' business rival Stavros G Livanos, the founder of the Livanos shipping empire.
13 Facts About Philip Niarchos
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In 2008, Philip Niarchos was reported to be 54 years old when The Sunday Times estimated his net worth at GBP 850 million, approximately $1.687 billion US at the exchange rate of that time.
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Philip Niarchos is a member of the board of trustees at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and an international council member of London's Tate Gallery.
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Philip Niarchos was educated at the College Stanislas de Paris and Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland.
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Together with his younger brother, Spyros, Niarchos serves as co-president and member of the board of directors at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
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Philip Niarchos has made numerous additions to his father's art collection.
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Philip Niarchos was suspected as being the anonymous buyer of Vincent van Gogh's "Self-Portrait", at a November 1998 Christie's auction; it sold for $71.5 million.
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Philip Niarchos was revealed to be the anonymous buyer of Jean-Michel Basquiat's 1982 Self-Portrait, which closed at $3.3 million.
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Warhol completed these works in 1985, using silkscreens made from CAT-scan films of the skull of Philip Niarchos, who commissioned the artist to paint his portrait.
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Warhol shares details of the dysfunctional relationship Philip Niarchos had with the divorced and widowed socialite Barbara de Kwiatkowski.
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Philip Niarchos's married name was Barbara Allen at the time of her relationship with Niarchos; now she is the widow of Henryk de Kwiatkowski.
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Philip Niarchos was a first cousin, and step-brother, of the late heiress Christina Onassis whose mother Athina Livanos was a younger sister of his own mother and later became his father's last wife.
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Philip Niarchos is a first cousin once removed of Athina Onassis.