Vicky Karayiannis Biography

Paris-based American publicist Vicky Karayiannis rose to stardom after marrying the late musician, Chris Cornell. Furthermore, Vicky Karayiannis is also a philanthropist. She received even more media attention after her husband Cornell committed suicide in 2017.

Vicky Karayiannis age and career

Vicky Karayiannis was born on August 13, 1987 in the United States under the birth sign Leo. As far as her nationality is concerned, she is American and belongs to the white ethnicity. He was born to mother Toni Karayiannis and grew up with her brother, Nicolás Karayiannis .

His brother Nicholas, also known as “DJ Nick Blast”, is an executive at a New York restaurant. Vicky follows conservative Greek values ​​because her parents also had Greek roots. Her ancestors were also in the field of music.

Talking abou her career, she is a publicist and philanthropist. Additionally, Karayiannis along with her late husband created the Chris and Vicky Cornell Foundation in 2012. The organization helps raise awareness and support for children experiencing homelessness, abuse and poverty.

She continues to work actively for the foundation even after the death of her husband and founding member Cornell. Furthermore, sources reported that Karayiannis wants to continue the good cause that Karayiannis and her late husband started together

Vicky Karayiannis net worth

Vicky Karayiannis has worked as a publicist and philanthropist for years and could have earned an impressive sum of money from her publicist career, however there is no information about her income and net worth.

On the other hand, her late husband Chris Cornell had an estimated net worth of $60 million at the time of his death. Additionally, Karayiannis and her then-husband purchased a home in Beverly Hills, California for $5.4 million. . The house was initially owned by the rock star, however it was turned over to Karayiannis after her death.

After Cornell’s death, Karayiannis donated $100,000 to the Seattle-based nonprofit Childhaven, which established the Chris Cornell Music Therapy Program to mark the musician’s 53rd birthday.

V the personal life of icky karayiannis

Vicky Karayiannis was married to Chris Cornell, an American musician, singer, and songwriter. They met at the Hotel Plaza Athénée in Paris in January 2003, when Vicky attended the rock group Audioslave’s after-show party.

They met again in London, where the pair ended up as an item. Later, he proposed to his beloved to be his wife with a silver ring at the Beverly Hills Hotel, West Hollywood. The couple married in 2004 in Paris. The couple had two children; Toni Cornell , born September 2004, and Christopher Nicholas Cornell , born December 2005, in their 13 years of married life.

The couple had been together until Chris’s death on May 18, 2017, at the age of 52.

Chris was previously married to music manager Susan Silver from 1990 to 2004. Silver also has a daughter, Lillian Jean Cornell was born on June 28, 2000 to her ex-husband, Cornell.

V The death legacy of icky Karayiannis’s husband, Chris Cornell

Rock legend Chris was found dead in the bathroom of his MGM Grand hotel room on May 18, 2017. At the time of his death, he was on a music tour.

The Wayne County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed Cornell did not die due to drug-related problems and ruled his death a suicide by hanging.

Cornell’s wife, Karayiannis, reportedly contacted her insurance attorney, Kirk Pasich, to manage the publicity shortly after hearing the news of her husband’s death. Later, Pasich, on behalf of Vicky Karayiannis, blamed a drug gang, ‘Ativan’, for Chris’s death.

On July 11, 2017, the Detroit police released the final report on the singer’s death which revealed that Vicky was the last person to speak to Chris before his death. As previously reported, she had spoken to him on the phone the night before he died.

Vicky also said that her husband was not okay with her over the phone. She also claimed that her speech was not clear and said that he was repeatedly tired. After her conversation, she immediately contacted Chris’s bodyguard to see how she was doing. After that, he was found unconscious in his hotel room and he was pronounced dead around 1:30 am. Days after his death, the police revealed the scene of the singer’s death in some media images.

It took Vicky a few months to recover from the great loss. Later, she blamed her husband’s doctor, Dr. Robert Koblin, for her death. Meanwhile, in November 2018, she and her children filed a case in the ‘Los Angeles Superior Court’ against Dr. Koblin. In court documents, she claimed the doctor had prescribed medication for shoulder pain that she claimed was the main cause of her death. Vicky believed that the doctor should not have prescribed this medication.

In addition, he rejected the postmortem report suggesting that Cornell died by suicide. He accused the doctor of negligently and repeatedly ‘prescribing’ him ‘dangerous mind-altering controlled substances’.

The lawsuit also claimed that Dr. Koblin had been recommending lorazepam, a benzodiazepine medication, to Chris for nearly 20 months without checking on his health.

Later, in an interview with Good Morning America , Vicky said that the late singer had a problem with his torn shoulder and couldn’t sleep well due to severe pain.

Later, he did some research on the prescribed medication and found that the dosage of the medication was not supposed to be continued for more than two weeks. In addition, he discovered that the use of the drug should have been continuously monitored.

The latest investigative reports into Cornell’s death stated that Chris had also taken the prescribed medication on the night of his death. But a drug was not the reason for his death.

Watch the short video of Vicky Karayiannis where she talks about her husband’s addiction before his suicide.