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Aristoteles Onassis
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Aristotle Onassis was born in 1906 in Smyrna (now Izmir), Turkey, to Greek parentage. His father, lured to Smyrna for its vast business possibilities, quickly became wealthy. In a battle for the city of Smyrna in 1927, Turkey fought and wrested the port city from Greece. The prosperous family was thrown into a concentration camp, but Aristotle lied and persuaded the authorities that he was only 16 and shouldn't be imprisoned. It worked, and Onassis was quickly sent with other refugees to Buenos Aires, Argentina. In Argentina, Onassis worked as a telephone operator, and quickly made a fortune by planting and manufacturing tobacco. Gaining wealth and prestige, Onassis was later made Greek Consul to Argentina. Onassis bought his first ship in 1932 and began to build one of the largest shipping empires in the world. As his wealth grew, Onassis began to develop the first super oil tanker ships, creating one of the largest empires in the world. In 1946 Onassis married Athina Livanos, the daughter of another Greek shipping magnate, Stavros Livanos. They had two children, Alexander, born in 1949, and Christina, born in 1950. At the same time, Onassis began building enormous whaling vessels that began to controversially scour the world for any whales they could find, slaughtering hundreds of thousands. After years of international controversy, he folded his whaling enterprise in 1956. That same year, Onassis, believing air travel was the next frontier, founded the first and only private national airline, Olympic Airways. It consisted of 12 DC-8's and one DC-4. With Athens as its home base, Olympic Airways began flying all over the world, connecting Athens with London and Paris, Asia, and North America. After he divorced his wife Athina in 1960, Onassis and Maria Callas were a constant item, but he was by no means faithful to her. In 1968, Onassis stunned the world with the announcement that he would marry Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, the widow of the slain American President. They were married on his private Greek island of Skorpios in the presence of family, including his sister Artemis, his two children, and Kennedy's children, John and Caroline. In 1973, Aristotle's beloved son, Alexander, died aboard an Olympic airplane. On takeoff from Athens Airport, Alexander, a pilot, was killed when the plane he was using to train a new pilot crashed on takeoff. In 1975, Onassis was diagnosed with myasthenia gravis, a muscular disease, and died on March 15, 1975. He left his estate to his daughter Christina, but Jackie Kennedy hotly contested it. When Christina died a billionaire at age 37 in 1987, her young daughter, Athina, became one of the wealthiest people in the world. |
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Su
hijo Alexandre, antes de la tragedia. Nunca, como Christina pudo tolerar
el matrimonio de su padre con Jackie Kennedy
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Onassis, Aristotle
Socrates (1906 - 1975)
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