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...Stepmother Jackie on the island of Skorpiós for the Greek Orthodox service marking the 40th day after her father's death. While a village priest swung an incense-filled censer, Jackie, Christina and a score of Aristotle Onassis' closest relatives and friends offered prayers in Ari's behalf. Afterward, worshipers completed the ceremonial rite of passage by eating from a specially decorated 44-lb. loaf of bread-a symbolic act to send the soul of the late shipping magnate heavenward...
...likelihood that the canny Onassis set up a maze of tax-resistant trusts. The best guess seems to be that Jackie will end up with about $100 million, and her children, John and Caroline Kennedy, with $15 million each. She is also expected to get the prime pickings of Ari's $20 million art collection, part of which already adorns her 15-room apartment on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. While Onassis' lawyers unravel the knots of his empire and will, they are continuing to pay Jackie's $600,000-a-year allowance. Whatever the outcome, Jackie...
...While Ari was hospitalized, Jackie stayed at the Paris penthouse, but Christina opted for a hotel. Onassis' three sisters were incensed that Jackie was in New York when her husband died; she had been assured by doctors, friends say, that his condition was stable and had gone home to catch a TV program that Caroline had worked on. At the funeral, Christina and Jackie took separate launches to Skorpiós and walked apart to the chapel. Later, with Christina off to Switzerland, Jackie flew to Paris, no longer, it seemed, a member of the Onassis clan...
Unlike many of his reclusive peers in that small realm of the super-super-rich, Onassis knew how to spend as lavishly as he earned. Known around the world as "Ari" or "Daddy-O" (his Greek friends, however, called him "Telis," the diminutive of Aristotle), he was the prime mover of the jet set. He had residences in half a dozen cities, an Ionian island of his own and an elegant art collection. He boasted the world's most lavish yacht, the Christina, a 325-ft. rebuilt Canadian frigate complete with sumptuous bathrooms lined in Siena marble and fitted...
Belly Dancers. After the honeymoon, the marriage was filled with what one intimate of Ari's called "the nights of long silences." Jackie loved concerts, ballet and theater; Onassis preferred raucous bouzouki music, belly dancers and at times the company of roistering Greek businessmen. Much of the time they lived separate lives; Jackie had visited her husband, who had been in the hospital for five weeks, a few days earlier but was in New York City last week at the time of his death. When they were both in Manhattan, she resided with her children Caroline and John...