- He was a Greek-Argentine shipping magnate
| Real name: | Aristotle Socrates Onassis | | Born: | 15 January 1906 Comment | | When did Aristotle Onassis die? / Died | 15 March 1975 | | How many years did Aristotle Onassis live? / Lived | 69 years | | Where was Aristotle Onassis born? | Karataş, Konak, Turkey | | Where did Aristotle Onassis die? / Deathplace | Neuilly-sur-Seine, France | | Zodiac sign: | Capricorn |
Aristotle Onassis Net worth 2024 (estimated)
| | How much is Aristotle Onassis worth? | Under review
| | Nationality: | Turkish |
Who was Aristotle Onassis? / Facts
- Onassis amassed the world's largest privately owned shipping fleet and was one of the world's richest and most famous men
- He was known for his business success, his great wealth and also his personal life, including his marriage to Athina Livanos, daughter of shipping tycoon Stavros G. Livanos, his affair with the opera singer Maria Callas and his marriage in 1968 to Jacqueline Kennedy, the widow of the American president John F. Kennedy
- Onassis was born in Smyrna and fled the city with his family to Greece in 1922 in the wake of the Greco-Turkish War
- He moved to Argentina in 1923 and established himself as a tobacco trader and later a shipping owner during the Second World War
- Moving to Monaco, Onassis rivaled Prince Rainer III for economic control of the country through his ownership of SBM and in the mid 1950s sought to secure an oil shipping arrangement with Saudi Arabia and engaged in whaling expeditions
- In the 1960s Onassis attempted to establish a large investment contract, Project Omega, with the Greek military junta, and sold Olympic Airways which he had founded in 1957
- Onassis was greatly affected by the death of his 24-year-old son, Alexander, in a plane crash in 1973, and died two years later
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