Aristotle Socrates ONASSISAge: 691906–1975
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- Aristotle Socrates ONASSIS
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- Aristotle Socrates
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- ONASSIS
| Birth | 20 January 1906 Karataş, Izmir, Ottoman Empire |
| Common law marriage | Maria CALLAS - View family from 1957 (Age 50) Greece
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Text: Onassis and legendary opera soprano Maria Callas carried on an affair despite the fact that they were both married. They met in 1957 during a party in Venice promoted by Elsa Maxwell. After this first encounter, Onassis commented to Spyros Skouras: "There [was] just a natural curiosity; after all, we were the most famous Greeks alive in the world."
Callas and Onassis both divorced their spouses but did not marry each other, although their relationship continued for many years |
| Occupation | Shipping tycoon; businessman
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Aristotle Socrates ONASSIS (1906–1975) [Onassis in 1967] |
| Relationship 16-20 | Aristotle Socrates ONASSIS is your third great aunt's first cousin four times removed's wife's great uncle's wife's 2nd husband.
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Citation details: 19 connections Text: Shortest in-law relationship
You →Ruth ALTER COHEN your mother →Frieda DRUKARSH ALTER her mother →Raizel (Galia) BARANSKI DRUKARSH her mother →Avraham (Tzvi) Hersh BARANSKI her father →Szymon BARANSKI his brother →Hinda KLEJNMINTZ BARANSKI his wife →Tauba (Tybie) DRUCZJAN KLEJNMINTZ her mother →Liba DRACZANA SPIEGEL her sister →Chana Sura SPIEGEL CIESIELSKA her daughter →Jack CIESELSKI CHELSKY her son →Dr. Morris Bernard CHELSKY his son →<private> CHELSKY MCKEAN his daughter →<private> MCKEAN her son →Maeve KENNEDY MCKEAN his wife →Kathleen KENNEDY TOWNSEND her mother Robert F. KENNEDY, U.S. Attorney General her father John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the USA his brother →Jacqueline KENNEDY ONASSIS, 32nd First Lady of the United States his wife →Aristotle Socrates ONASSIS her husband |
| Married | Athina Mary "Tina" LIVANOS from 28 December 1946 to June 1960 (Age 40) Manhattan, New York, New York, USA
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Text: Onassis and Livanos had two children, both born in New York City: a son, Alexander (1948–1973), and a daughter Christina (1950–1988).
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| Marriage | Jacqueline Lee BOUVIER - View family 20 October 1968 (Age 62) Nisída Skorpiós, Ionian Islands, Greece
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Jacqueline Lee BOUVIER [20 Oct 1968 wedding day] |
| Death | 15 March 1975 (Age 69) Neuilly-sur-seine, Departement Des Hauts-de-seine, Île-de-france, France
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Text: Businessman. A Greek shipping magnate, he is best remembered as the second husband of former First Lady of the United States, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. During his lifetime, he was one of the richest and most famous men in the world, with his name becoming synonymous with extreme wealth. Born in Smyrna, in the Ottoman Empire (now Izmir, Turkey), to Socrates and Penelope Onassis. His father managed a fleet of ten ships, enabling him to send his children to prestigious private schools. By the age of 16, Aristotle spoke four languages: Greek, Turkish, English and Spanish. After being occupied by Greece for three years following World War I, Turkey and Greece went to war and Turkey recaptured the city of Smyrna; the Greek Onassis family was forced to flee the city and Onassis lost three uncles and an aunt who were murdered by Turkish forces. In 1923, Aristotle Onassis moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he obtained work with the British United River Plate Telephone Company, and began his own company, making cigarettes from imported Turkish tobacco. Within the next four years, he was a millionaire, due in part to many of his illegal doings, such as smuggling tobacco into Argentina to avoid paying duties, and manufacturing cigarettes under other brand names without paying royalties. Onassis would also use bribe government officials to obtain favorable consideration for his illegal activities. In 1925, he obtained dual Greek and Argentine citizenship. In 1931, he obtained Greek tax exemptions for his ships, and was given the title of Vice Consul to Argentina, which greatly increased his status in both countries. In 1938, Onassis built a 15,000 ton tanker, the Ariston, considered the largest tanker in the world at the time, and which became the forerunner of the supertankers which would dominate oil transports for the next 60 years following the war. During World War II, Onassis reflagged his ships to Panama, which gave them favorable tax-free status, and his company was able to become one of the lowest cost merchant shipping firms in the world, obtaining high profits. In a deal with the US Government, he shipped military equipment at low prices, in exchange for the US Government granting him war surplus cargo ships at the end of the war for extremely favorable prices. At the end of the war, Onassis controlled one of the largest privately owned fleets in the world, and the press began to refer to him as the "Golden Greek." His shipping firm would make him one of the most prosperous businessmen in the world, shipping mostly ore and oil around the world. Between 1950 and 1956, Onassis would operate a fleet a whalers, until he was accused of killing infant whales illegally, and then he sold his fleet at great profit to the Japanese to avoid prosecution. Onassis was married in 1946 to Athina Livanos, daughter of Greek shipping magnate Stavros Livanos, with whom he had two children, Alexander (born 1948) and Christina (born 1950), although the marriage would end in divorce when he began an affair with opera diva Maria Callas in 1957. Despite the open knowledge that he was involved with Maria Callas, he pursued Jacqueline Kennedy, widow of US President John F. Kennedy. In the years immediately following JFK's assassination, Jacqueline Kennedy was considered one of the most eligible bachelorettes in the world's social elite. Onassis publicly ended his long-term relationship with Callas to marry Kennedy on October 20, 1968, after agreeing to a marriage contract that was considered highly controversial in its time. The contract stated that Kennedy would receive $3 million cash and $1 million for each son, and if Onassis should die, she would receive $150,000 every year for the rest of her life. Relationships between Jacqueline Kennedy and Onassis's daughter, Christine, would be chilly for the rest of their lives. In the last years of his life, Onassis suffered from myasthenia gravis, and he died in 1975 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France from bronchial pneumonia, a complication of his weakened condition. Onassis's will gave his daughter Christina 55% of his estate and control over his companies, with the remaining 45% used to establish the Alexander Onassis Foundation in honor of his deceased son, who had died in an airplane crash in 1973. His wife, Jackie, reportedly received $10 million dollars, although the exact amount has not been revealed.
Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson |
| Burial | after 15 March 1975 Skorpios, Island of Skorpios Cemetery, Regional unit of Lefkada, Ionian Islands, Greece
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Text: Aristotle Socrates Onassis Famous memorial
Birth 20 Jan 1906 Izmir, İzmir, Turkey Death 15 Mar 1975 (aged 69) Neuilly-sur-Seine, Departement des Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France Burial Island of Skorpios Cemetery Skorpios, Regional unit of Lefkada, Ionian Islands, Greece Plot Sarcophagus beside the chapel Family Members Spouses Athina Mary Livanos Niarchos 1929–1974 (m. 1946) Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis 1929–1994 (m. 1968) Children Alexander Socrates Onassis 1948–1973 Christina Onassis 1950–1988 Omero Lengrini Onassis 1960–1960 Maintained by: Find a Grave Added: 6 Sep 1999 Find a Grave Memorial 6278 |
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| Last change | 29 August 2022 - 16:25:59 by: Site Admin |
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Birth 20 January 1906 Karataş, Izmir, Ottoman Empire Reference number K59 Death 15 March 1975 (Age 69) Neuilly-sur-seine, Departement Des Hauts-de-seine, Île-de-france, France |
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18 years wife |
Birth 2 December 1923 New York, New York, USA Reference number K36 Death 16 September 1977 (Age 53) Paris, Île-de-france, France |
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Marriage: from 1957 — Greece |
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Birth 20 January 1906 Karataş, Izmir, Ottoman Empire Reference number K59 Death 15 March 1975 (Age 69) Neuilly-sur-seine, Departement Des Hauts-de-seine, Île-de-france, France |
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24 years wife |
Birth 28 July 1929 Southampton, Suffolk County, New York, USA Reference number K53 Death 19 May 1994 (Age 64) New York, New York, USA |
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Marriage: 20 October 1968 — Nisída Skorpiós, Ionian Islands, Greece |
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Birth 29 May 1917 Brookline, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA Reference number K52 Death 22 November 1963 (Age 46) Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, USA |
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12 years wife |
Birth 28 July 1929 Southampton, Suffolk County, New York, USA Reference number K53 Death 19 May 1994 (Age 64) New York, New York, USA |
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Marriage: 12 September 1953 — Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA |
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4 years #1 step-daughter |
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3 years #2 step-son |
Birth 25 November 1960 Washington, District Of Columbia, USA Reference number K55 Death 16 July 1999 (Age 38) over the Atlantic Ocean |
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3 years #3 step-son |
Birth 7 August 1963 Otis Air Force Base Hospital Barnstable County, Massachusetts, USA Reference number K56 Death 9 August 1963 (Age 2 days) Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA |
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