# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/aristotle-onassis
# Generated: 2026-09-01T03:32:57.136Z

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name: "Aristotle Onassis"
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description: "He built the world's largest private shipping empire, bedded an opera diva, and married a president's widow — but the Greek refugee who turned war into fortune and Monaco into his chessboard couldn't outrun the loss that broke him."
tagline: "Greek shipping magnate (1906–1975)"
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birthDate: "1906-01-15"
deathDate: "1975-03-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Smyrna in 1906, Onassis fled with his family to Greece after the city burned in 1922. He landed in Argentina the following year with little and made his first fortune trading tobacco, then pivoted to ships during the Second World War when others were too frightened to buy. By the 1950s he'd moved to Monaco and locked horns with Prince Rainier III over control of the country's economy through his stake in SBM and the Monte Carlo Casino, while chasing oil contracts with Saudi Arabia and launching whaling ventures. He founded Olympic Airways in 1957, sold it in the '60s, and tried to lock down Project Omega — a massive investment deal with Greece's military junta. His long affair with Maria Callas made headlines; his 1968 marriage to Jacqueline Kennedy made more. When his son Alexander died in a plane crash in 1973, the man who had outmaneuvered princes and parliaments came apart, and he followed two years later.