Aristotle Onassis
Greek shipping magnate (1906-1975) · Greece · Founders · Died at 69 · also Argentina
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Something wrong?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.
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Aankomst Patriarch Athenagoras op Schiphol samen met Griekse reder Onassis. Numm, Bestanddeelnr 920-8104
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Contract signing between Olympic Airways and Aristotelis Onassis
Filmmaker Parvin Ansari with Greek magnate Aristotle OnassisIn their own words 5
, 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.
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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.
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