Word: onassisism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After starting in Buenos Aires as a telephone lineman at 25¢ an hour, he worked into the tobacco business, importing Turkish and Bulgarian blends that became immensely popular in Latin America. Three years later, he had saved $20,000; by the age of 23, his tobacco had made him a...
His worth vastly enhanced by wartime earnings, Onassis in 1946 married the younger daughter of Stavros Livanos, then one of the most powerful of the Greek shipping magnates. (Another Livanos daughter subsequently married and divorced Niarchos, now 59, whose tanker fleet today is reputed to be larger than the Onassis...
Tina Onassis won an Alabama divorce in 1960 on the ground of mental cruelty, and later married the jet-set Marquess of Blandford. The split resulted from Onassis' liaison with Diva Maria Callas, now 44, a decade-long affair that ended only five months ago at Ari's initiative. During...
Some $2,500,000 worth of improvements have transformed the 1,600-ton 325-foot ship into a floating Elysium. Capable of 22 knots, mounting an amphibian Piaggio aircraft plus a landing craft, the yacht boasts a black-sweatered crew of 50 ("More than it needs to run a 40...
Onassis spends four or five months a year aboard the Christina, confirming his self-image as a latter-day Odysseus. Old Argentinian friends describe him as a "Vivo"?a shrewd, live-wire operator behind whose enigmatic, almost Oriental facade lies a volcanic rage and a long memory for a...