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Aristotle Onassis

Greek-Argentine shipping magnate who built the world's largest private fleet.

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Onassis died at age 69 on 15 March 1975 of pneumonia following gall bladder surgery.[1] A Greek and Argentine business magnate and shipping tycoon, Aristotle Socrates Onassis built the largest privately-owned shipping fleet globally.[2] His spouses included Athina Mary Livanos and, later, American former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; he also had a lengthy romantic involvement with opera singer Maria Callas.[2]

Key facts and history

When he graduated from the local Evangelical Greek School at age 16, he spoke four languages: Greek, Turkish, Spanish, and English.[3] He married Athina Mary Livanos, daughter of shipping magnate Stavros G. Livanos, on 28 December 1946 when she was 17 and he was 40.[4] Onassis arrived in Monaco in 1953 and took control of Société des bains de mer de Monaco, which owned the Monte Carlo Casino and other major assets.[5] He founded the privatized Olympic Airways in 1957.[6]

Onassis died at the American Hospital of Paris in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, of pneumonia exacerbated by cortisone he was taking for myasthenia gravis.[1] Born in 1906 to Greek parents Socrates Onassis and Penelope Dologlou, Aristotle Socrates Onassis came into the world in Karataş, a suburb of the Ottoman port city of Smyrna.[7] Following the Great Fire of Smyrna in 1922, the Onassis family lost their property and were forced to flee as refugees to Greece.[8] Two children were born to Onassis and Livanos: a son named Alexander and a daughter named Christina.[4]

What the cited sources add

Fulsom further reports that after a meeting with Maheu, Nixon whispered, "if it turns out we have to kill the bastard don't do it on American soil"[9] An India Today article states that Jackie Kennedy was one of the world's most expensive women, estimated to have spent nearly 500,000 on clothes in one year.[10]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Aristotle Onassis" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Aristotle Onassis Is Dead Of Pneumonia in France", The New York Times, 1975-03-16; "Aristotle Onassis", www.onassis.org (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Aristotle Onassis" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Onassis". Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.; "Aristotle Socrates Onassis", 29 March 2024; "Biografia de Onassis Aristóteles Millonario Griego Armador de Barcos", historiaybiografias.com; "La Argentina de Onassis.", La Terminal, ida y vuelta a la realidad, 7 December 2008; Herald, "Remembering Greek shipping magnate, Aristotle Onassis", The Greek Herald, 2021-03-15; Hoenig, Gary (16 March 1975) "Headliners, Aristotle Onassis is Dead". New York Times; "22 iconic photos of life at sea", Boat International (we also read that en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Aristotle Onassis" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Cafarakis, "Ari: O Fabuloso Onassis", Editora Expressão e Cultura, 1972; Gerald A. Carroll. Project Seek: Onassis, Kennedy, and the Gemstone thesis. Bridger House, 1994, , p. 50 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Aristotle Onassis" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Evans 1987, p. 113 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Aristotle Onassis" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Evans 1987, p. 113; Evans 1987, p. 113; Evans 1987, p. 113 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Aristotle Onassis" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Onasis.gr – Everything about Aristotelis Onasis", onasis.gr (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Aristotle Onassis" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Harlaftis, "Chapter 1 The Onassis Family: Family and Business Network"; "Aristotle Onassis", İzmir Life (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Aristotle Onassis" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Hussein, Waris (1988) Onassis, the richest man in the world, TV movie. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  9. Nixon’s Bay of Pigs Secrets//Excerpted from Nixon’s Darkest Secrets: The Inside Story of America’s Most Troubled PresidentNixons Darkest Secrets by Don Fulsom. facts only, no text reused. thehistoryreader.com
  10. "Jackie Kennedy: One of the world's most expensive women", 30 November 1977. facts only, no text reused. indiatoday.in

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