Greek shipping magnate (1906–1975)
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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.
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…
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Five tankers—and the only time I had to put my hand in my pocket was to scratch my balls.
I guess the kid had everything but the luck.
I consider a good reputation is a great part of the human happiness. Some people, if they are very, very rich can permit themselves certain negligence to their reputations.
Millions do not always add up to what a man needs out of life.
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
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