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In their long-running game of oneupmanship, Greek Shipowners Aristotle Onassis, 61, and Stavros Niarchos, 58, have vied in everything from outfitting their yachts with art treasures to transforming their private islands into playgrounds for the beautiful people. But nothing has been more spirited than the rivalry between the onetime...
Died. Pierre Rey, 70, financial adviser to Prince Rainier and president of Monaco's controlling Société des Bains de Mer from 1953 to 1959, chairman since 1963; of cancer; in Monaco. As boss of the S.B.M., which includes the casino, the yacht club the Hô...
"I just love my nose-goes with the setting," said the masked guest, tilting his twelve-inch rubber proboscis toward the Tiepelo frescoes on the ceiling of Venice's Palazzo Ca' Rezzonica. It was the season's gaudiest Ballo in Maschera (masked ball), and more than 500...
Now, as Lynda Bird told a friend, "it's all over." Chin waggers guessed that the rift really opened in July, when vacationing Lynda was left twiddling her toes in London for three weeks while George struggled unsuccessfully to escape from Aristotle Onassis' yacht in the Mediterranean. As...
She has always been a complicated mixture of arrogance and defensiveness. Now, Diva Maria Callas, 43, and her good friend, Greek Shipping Millionaire Aristotle Onassis, were embroiled in a London lawsuit against Greek Shipowner Panaghis Vergottis over just how many shares each owned in a $3.3 million tanker called Artemision...