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That happened again last week during a four-day mania on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The setting was the U.S. showroom of the auctioneer Sotheby's; the occasion, the public sale of 5,914 personal items belonging to the estate of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. And the outcome...
Other buyers, though something less than household names, represented the glittering ranks of industry and society. Anthony J.F. O'Reilly, whose day job is ceo of the H.J. Heinz Co. in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, bought his Greek shipping-heiress wife Chryss the 40-carat diamond ring that Greek shipping magnate Aristotle...
DIED. STAVROS NIARCHOS, 86, last of the "Golden Greek" tycoons, famed for his wealth ($4 billion in shipping, real estate, oil), women (six marriages to five women) and rivalry with Aristotle Onassis; in Zurich.
NEW YORK: Bernhard Goetz filed bankruptcy on Monday to prevent authorities from auctioning off his pet chinchilla and his guinea pig Squeaky. With assets of just over $2,000, Goetz will be hard pressed to pay the $43 million a jury awarded last week to Darrell Cabey, a victim of...
NEW YORK: They are as close as Americans can come to royalty, and the price at which people are acquiring momentos and pieces of their lives certainly reinforces that impression. Part of the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis estate is up for sale at New York's venerable Sotheby's auction house...