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Athina Onassis - The tragic childhood
2008-12-10 23:50:00
_uacct = "UA-2807163-1";urchinTracker();After wresting control of her fortune from her father, Athina Onassis Roussel wants to claim her full legacy as Aristotle Onassis?s granddaughter and sole surviving heir?including, some say, the presidency of Greece?s most famous foundation. Behind her is her fiancé and fellow equestrian jumper, Olympic medalist Alvaro Alfonso de Miranda Neto. As ?the richest little girl in the world? comes of age.I met Athina Onassis Roussel, the last direct descendant of Aristotle Onassis, on a hot day in July 1999, when she was a tall, coltish, shy girl of 14. She was in Greece to attend the wedding of a second cousin at the seaside estate of her famous grandfather?s stepsister, Kalliroi Patronicolas. Wearing a long-sleeved white jacket over a summer dress, Athina stayed close to her father, Thierry Roussel, all afternoon, speaking French in a soft, hesitant voice, never making eye contact with the distant relatives he introduced her to, always standing sli...
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Aristotle Onassis the king of kings
2008-09-23 23:01:00
_uacct = "UA-2807163-1";urchinTracker();"All that really counts these days is money," Aristotle Onassis once said. "It's the people with money who are the royalty now." By that maxim, the ambitious, expansive Greek shipping magnate was a king of kings. Until he died of bronchial pneumonia in 1975 in Paris at age 69, after months of suffering from myasthenia gravis (a debilitating disease that weakens the body muscles), Onassis had flamboyantly ruled an empire of ocean tankers and airlines, banks, real estate holdings and trading companies. His total worth was estimated to be at least 3 billions. 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 - including me, 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 elegan...
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Onassis the businessman
2008-07-29 01:01:00
_uacct = "UA-2807163-1";urchinTracker();Aristotle Onassis was born in Smyrna in Turkey on January 1, 1906. His father was Socrates Onassis and his mother Penelope Onassis. His father had been a profitable trader whose main specialty was tobacco. From an early age, young Aristotle had to face some tough life challenges. The first of these were his mother Penelope, which resulted in personal loss and a sense of rebellion in Ari, as he came to be called. The next big challenge was when the Turks invaded Smyrna and the family had to flee. His father was captured, but Ari devised a way to get his father released.After this episode, Ari felt a sense of disillusionment in Europe and headed for the new world and Argentina. There he started to work as a telephone switchboard operator. This allowed him to listen in on conversations and learn the language. He especially liked to listen in to some calls between Argentina and New York. One of these yielded an attractive deal where he made some m...
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Aristotle Onassis VS Niarchos
2008-03-26 23:45:00
_uacct = "UA-2807163-1";urchinTracker();I first encountered Stavros Niarchos face to face four months before I got to know Aristotle Onassis , the man who defined my career as a ship owner, and whose shadow I became for years to come. I met Niarchos in mid-May 1959 when the Creole was moored in the Bay of Vouliagmeni, outside of Athens. It was the most elegant and expensive yacht in the whole world at that time, a three-masted ebony masterpiece. I was | an avid hunter of front-page news, and as always I stalked my game with a photographer beside me. This particular day we decided to lay in wait on the beach, hoping for a few words from Niarchos, and maybe a picture of the already world-famous shipowner. I remember hoping that he would be entertaining some young beauty on his ship, in which case a place on the front page would be a sure thing. In Greek we call a shipping magnate a Stolarchos, meaning the commander of a fleet, something much more than a shipowner. In truth many of the...

Aristotle Onassis - Zorba the greek
2008-03-26 23:37:00
_uacct = "UA-2807163-1";urchinTracker();Once upon a time there was a Greek man whose name was Onasis. He lived in a century when a lot of old ideologies died and new ones, such as communism, were born; in a century when realms and empires faded down; when the most criminous wars occurred and two super powers separated the whole world into East and West. During the same century, the world commercial and technological exchange dominated, as well as the giant growth of consumerism and the star system did. Tremendous inventions had been realized, such as the cure of irremediable ?till that period- illnesses, the heart transplant, the change of arteries and of sex? It was during this century that the man broke the atom and made the bomb of calamity. At the same time, he conquered the space, footed on the moon, succeeded superhuman records and brought an evolution to arts, literature and music. In a few words, during the 20th century we saw almost everything, we saw signs and wonders? Ona...
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Farewell to Stelios Papadimitriou, Honorary President of the Aristotle Onas
2007-12-04 15:25:00
_uacct = "UA-2807163-1";urchinTracker(); At the age of 75, and having recently exchanged the title of president of the Alexandros S. Onassis Foundation for that of honorary president, Stelios Papadimitriou lost the battle with lung cancer. His ordeal led to complications that took him to the intensive-care unit of the Onassis Cardiology Hospital, where he died on November 23. The hospital, which was created by the foundation, was inaugurated by Papadimitriou and the two vice presidents. It was written that he should spend the last night of his life there. His funeral took place on Friday and was honored by the Church, the state, the academic community and many of his colleagues.In accordance with his wishes, the funeral was held at Aghia Fotini in Nea Smyrni, where Christina Onassis?s funeral was held on November 19, 1988. She was buried on the island of Skorpios, next to her father and brother, Aristotle and Alexandros Onassis. The bells tolled mournfully in the bell tower, which i...
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For sale: the Greek island retreat once owned by Aristotle Onassis. Only th
2007-12-04 15:22:00
_uacct = "UA-2807163-1";urchinTracker();It is the latest must-have holiday accessory for the rich and famous: their very own island in the warm blue waters of the seas around Greece.Madonna, the singer and actress, and Richard Gere, the Hollywood film star, are among the multi-millionaires searching for the "perfect" holiday destination. Greek islands provide privacy, sandy beaches and at least four months of glorious weather every year. Click to enlarge At least six islands are for sale and, according to locals, the latest to be discreetly put on the market is Scorpios, formerly owned by the late Aristotle Onassis, the billionaire Greek shipping magnate.There are more than 1,500 islands in Greece, of which fewer than 200 are inhabited. Dozens of islands are privately owned, and after a change of Greek property laws last year, they can now be bought by foreigners.Greece, the venue for this year's Olympic Games in August, is seen as an ideal choice for many, particularly wealthy A...
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Aristote Onassis fut un redoutable homme d'affaires international
2007-12-04 14:53:00
_uacct = "UA-2807163-1";urchinTracker();Aristote Onassis fut un redoutable homme d'affaires international. Smyrne (Izmir), septembre 1922. Dans une maison vidée de ses habitants et livrée au pillage, un jeune garçon s'empresse auprès d'un officier turc. Il est son boy, son valet, son amant diront même certains... Quelques jours plus tôt, l'armée turque est entrée dans la ville. " Il faut chasser les Grecs d'Asie Mineure ! ", a ordonné le commandement, provoquant un effroyable carnage. Seuls la moitié des Grecs que compte la ville en réchapperont. Le jeune garçon est l'un d'eux. Toute sa famille ou presque a disparu, tuée ou emprisonnée. Il a seize ans, du moins officiellement. En fait, il en a dix-huit. Afin d'échapper à la mort ou à la captivité, il s'est en effet rajeuni de deux ans. Il y a gagné de pouvoir rester dans la demeure familiale pour servir le Turc. Son nom : Aristote Onassis.Ainsi commence, dans le sang et les larmes, la vie du plus célèbre Grec de la planète...
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Ari the great
2007-10-01 18:10:00
Aristotle Socrates Onassis was born in Smyrna, Turkey, in either 1900 or 1906 - throughout his life he maintained two passports, with two very different dates of birth. A Greek of Turkish nationality, his mother died when he was 6. In adolescence, Onassis admired his Uncle Alexander, who taught him to always charm his way to the top of every situation, and drilled into his impressionable young mind ancient Greek stories of passion, love, revenge, defiance, and loyalty, concepts that would play out in Onassis' later life.Onassis fled to Greece when war erupted in Smyrna, becoming a homeless Anatolian refugee at 17 - or 23, depending on which year of birth you believe. Onassis wanted to emigrate to the U.S., but immigration quotas had just been introduced, and Anatolian refugees were on the "not wanted list." Soon he ventured to Buenos Aires, Argentina, the destination for many a young man hungry to carve out his place in the world.During his years in Argentina, Onassis imported Turk...
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Aristotle Onassis - why he wanted Jackeline Kennedy
2007-10-01 18:06:00
On August 7, 1963, Jackie gave birth prematurely to her son Patrick; he was the last child Jackie was to carry, and he lived only two days. Following baby Patrick's death, Jackie spiraled into a serious depression, from which her younger sister Lee Radziwill tried to help her recover.Lee invited Jackie for an October cruise on Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis ' yacht, the Christina, to give Jackie some solace from her loss, and a week away from the pressures of being First Lady. Lee and her husband Prince Stanislas Radziwill chaperoned the cruise, along with Commerce Secretary Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., and his wife Susan.During Spring and Summer 1963, Lee Radziwill had become intimately involved with Onassis; her marriage to Prince Stanislas Radziwill was deteriorating rapidly. The Onassis/Radziwill affair surfaced in the American press during the Summer of 1963, causing embarrassment for a Kennedy administration hoping for easy reelection in 1964; they didn't want any sc...
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Aristotle Onassis and Maria Callas
2007-10-01 15:28:00
MARIA Callas's life is eloquent testimony to the truth of Erik Erikson's observation that ''when artists go under, it is not as slaughtered lambs, but as the vanquished in the struggle for power.'' Callas's formidable personality and temperament gave her insight into the larger-than-life heroines of many 19th-century operas. With the tools of her musicianship and remarkable technique, she translated this identification into performances that could transform people's lives. Her style was at one with the Romantic period and altogether alien to our own time. No one knew this better than she. Even at the end of her career, when a director of Covent Garden asked her to narrate ''L'Histoire du soldat,'' she refused: ''I'm not very keen on Stravinsky. I don't really like modern music. ... I don't really even approve of Puccini. Mine is the nineteenth century.'' The 19th century also marks the style of Arianna Stassinopoulos, Callas's most recent biographer. The author,...
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What happened in Christina's Onassis disappearance
2007-10-01 15:08:00
The sudden death of Christina Onassis in Argentina in 1988 presaged no changes in the shipping and real-estate empire founded by her father, Aristotle S. Onassis, according to several members of a multinational board that has run the business since he died in 1975. The private fortune was estimated at $500 million to $1 billion (today's 5 billions), owned half by Christina Onassis and half by the Alexander Onassis Foundation, whose 14-member board has controlled the entire empire with minimial influence by Ms. Onassis as its president. Several members said yesterday, after a meeting in Athens and calls to other members in Europe, the United States and Latin America, that the board would continue to manage the affairs of the Onassis family and contemplated no major changes in direction or organization. The death of the 37-year-old heiress, whose four marriages and stormy personal life often obscured her role as a businesswoman, will apparently make her 3-year-old daughter, Athena, o...
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Christina O Yacht Charter
2007-10-01 13:11:00
Charter the legendary Christina O Motor Yacht CHRISTINA O encapsulates the legend that was Aristotle Onassis. As a result of an extensive re-fit, this magnificent vessel defines a new category in luxury yachting. CHRISTINA O is one of the only mega yachts capable of accommodating up to 36 guests in 19 staterooms, in full compliance with SOLAS, US Coastguard and Public Health regulations. CHRISTINA O's canopied decks are the ideal venue for any extra special occasion. When Onassis bought the vessel in 1954, he converted her at an expense of over $4 million, into the largest, most modern and most exalted yacht of her era. CHRISTINA O became his floating mansion and headquarters for over two decades until his death in 1975. Onassis' guests onboard were some of the most famous and influential people of the time. At night, CHRISTINA O served as the stage for Onassis' celebrated social life, as he played host to Presidents and Prime Ministers, royalty and film stars. CHRISTINA O's fam...
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The Diva and The Tycoon
2007-10-01 13:09:00
t a time when celebrity romances rarely last longer than a teenage crush, it's hard to believe that gossip columnists here and abroad fastened on one couple for more than 15 years. She was a glamorous Greek opera star of singular talent and obvious vulnerability, and he was a charismatic and slightly sinister Greek tycoon. The tempestuous love affair between Maria Callas and Aristotle Onassis had so many fascinating and even improbable elements that the public eagerly followed every twist and turn. Nicholas Gage has the credentials to bring a new perspective to this oft-told tale: Greek-born, he is an American journalist with an impressive reputation for thorough and resourceful reporting. Callas and Onassis both died in the 1970's, but Gage managed to track down most of their family and friends, a number of whom spoke publicly for the first time. Still, the account he offers in ''Greek Fire'' is somewhat clinical, oddly lacking the passion that defined the personalities of Ca...
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Onassis - La legende
2007-10-01 12:59:00
Avec son formidable appétit de pouvoir et d?argent, avec l?audace d?un seigneur et une absence totale de modestie, Aristote Onassis fut l?un des derniers représentants de cette race d?hommes qui, partis de rien, ont su tout conquérir. Un destin flamboyant qui, il est vrai, eut aussi son revers: cette course éperdue à la puissance devait l?enfermer entre les hauts murs d?une sorte de folie, jusqu?à l?aveuglement, avec la solitude au terme du voyage. Aristote Socrate Onassis naît le 20 janvier1906 dans la colonie grecque de Smyrne, en Asie Mineure ? la Turquie actuelle. Son père est un riche négociant en tabac et l?enfance du petit Aristote coule sans histoire jusqu?en 1922, lorsque les Turcs, dans une subite frénésie de «nettoyage ethnique» ? déjà ?, entreprennent de massacrer tous les Grecs. Aristote et son père seront évacués de justesse vers Le Pirée. L?enfant a tout de même eu le temps d?assister à la pendaison de trois de ses oncles, tandis que sa tante et un cousin étaient brûl...

Onassis VS Niarchos
2007-10-01 10:06:00
I first encountered Stavros Niarchos face to face four months before I got to know Aristotle Onassis , the man who became on of my best friend. I met Niarchos in mid-May 1959 when the Creole was moored in the Bay of Vouliagmeni, outside of Athens. It was the most elegant and expensive yacht in the whole world at that time, a three-masted ebony masterpiece. I had a business appointment with him. In Greek we call a shipping magnate a Stolarchos, meaning the commander of a fleet, something much more than a shipowner. In truth many of these mercantile fleet owners, these Greek shipping magnates, were more powerful than navy admirals.What was Niarchos at that time, thirteen years after his acquisition of his first Liberty ship? He was a famous fifty-year-old opulent, Greek Stolarchos. He owned his own private island, Spetsopoula, and he privately entertained kings, assorted bluebloods and nobility, heads of government and celebrated artists. He was also renowned for his passion to enrich ...

Onassis Zorba the greek
2007-10-01 10:04:00
Once upon a time there was a Greek man whose name was Onassis . He lived in a century when a lot of old ideologies died and new ones, such as communism, were born; in a century when realms and empires faded down; when the most criminous wars occurred and two super powers separated the whole world into East and West. During the same century, the world commercial and technological exchange dominated, as well as the giant growth of consumerism and the star system did. Tremendous inventions had been realized, such as the cure of irremediable ?till that period- illnesses, the heart transplant, the change of arteries and of sex? It was during this century that the man broke the atom and made the bomb of calamity. At the same time, he conquered the space, footed on the moon, succeeded superhuman records and brought an evolution to arts, literature and music. In a few words, during the 20th century we saw almost everything, we saw signs and wonders? Onasis, without being neither a political ...
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Aristotle Onassis Picture Gallery - Special -
2007-09-28 16:16:00
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On Christina's Russian husband
2007-09-28 16:13:00
It was, beyond doubt, the year's strangest love match. This week in Moscow, Christina Onassis, 27, heir to her late father Aristotle's $500 million shipping, financial and industrial empire, is set to marry a Soviet citizen and Communist Party member who, say U.S. intelligence sources, may have KGB connections. What is more, she apparently intends to make her home in the Soviet capital.A family member in Athens glumly calls the affair a "disaster that has befallen us." For Christina, report friends, it is quite the opposite: the happy ending to a romance that began in Paris in 1976. It was there that she first met Sergei Kauzov, 37, a slender, quiet man with thinning blond hair, a mouth glistening with gold teeth, and a glass eye that he now and then calmly removes and replaces in public. A graduate of a Moscow foreign-language institute, Kauzov is fluent in French and English as well as his native Russian . He had been sent to Paris as a representative of Sovfracht, the Soviet shi...
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On one fo Chrisitna's Husband
2007-09-28 16:12:00
Alexander seemed a good catch for many reasons. His maternal grandfather, Alexander Koryzis, was Premier of Greece when the Nazis invaded in 1941. His father is not only a self-made millionaire in the buccaneer Onassis mold, but also a former professor of law at the Athens Graduate School of Economics and Business Science. Alexander, an avid collector of antique Rolls-Royces, is a shrewd businessman who graduated from Zurich University with an honors degree in mechanical engineering. Regarded as a forceful, ambitious pragmatist by his business associates, he developed his family's ultramodern shipbuilding facilities at Eleusis. "Christina wanted a hardboiled, tough decision maker," said one of her friends last week, "and that is what she got." Moreover, Alexander's conservative, family-oriented life-style may seem especially appealing to the long unsettled heiress. After her mother, Tina Livanos, divorced Ari in 1960 because of his affair with Opera Singer Maria Callas, Christina ...
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Movie on Aristotle Onassis
2007-09-28 16:10:00
THE GREEK TYCOON Directed by J. Lee Thompson Screenplay by Mort FineIn one scene Jacqueline Bisset, playing the Jacqueline Kennedy role, complains about the cuisine on the yacht; she's really not into Greek food. What would she prefer? inquires Anthony Quinn, playing the Aristotle Onassis role. Italian? French? The latter. No problem! he cries. He'll have it flown in daily from Maxim's, though how he expects to keep the white sauce from separating in flight is not clear. But the point is made: we are here in the lap of a luxe so grand as to be unimaginable to us poor mortals who count ourselves lucky to fly in the general direction of Maxim's a few times during our lives.But we must not think that the makers of this film intend merely to wow us with gaudy excess. No, no, no. They have soul. Quinn is discovered brooding sadly over his wife's beauty. Why does it make him gloomy? Because, he says, all beautiful things must eventually fade. That is in the nature of things. He is fu...
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Christina Onassis business handover
2007-09-28 16:06:00
These are dicey times for shipowners who play that gambler's game called tankers. As a result of the slowdown in the growth of petroleum consumption and some reckless overbuilding by shipyards in the early 1970s, the tanker business is in the worst depression in memory. Fully 10% of the world fleet sits idle for lack of cargo. In short, it should be no trade for a tyro, even an attractive girl of 26 who happened to wind up controlling one of the world's largest privately owned fleets. So how is Christina Onassis doing in her first job? At the very least, the willful and somewhat impetuous only surviving child of the great Golden Greek, Aristotle Onassis, who died in March 1975, has given the shipping world some surprises. At first, the closely knit Greek shipping fraternity expected her to steer clear of the business altogether. Then, when she asserted her rights as beneficiary of 47.5% of her father's 50-ship fleet of supertankers, bulk carriers and smaller vessels, and made kno...
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Onassis's Olympic Tower
2007-09-28 16:05:00
Then there are islands in the sky, and many of this genus are far more expensive than the real thing. A well-heeled couple recently plunked down $650,000 for a nine-room penthouse duplex 51 stories above Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. The apartment will be as secure as Fort Knox, look superciliously down upon neighboring St. Patrick's Cathedral, and allow its tenants, on a clear day, to see, if not forever, at least to New Jersey. They will be among the first residents of Olympic Tower , a complex of 230 condominiums, 19 floors of offices, exercise rooms, sauna, private dining rooms, boutiques and a block-long park with three-story ulterior waterfall, trees and two bistros that will be open to the public.The first of its kind in New York City to combine office, retail and residential facilities, Olympic Tower is half-owned by one Greek who should have no quarrel with Americans?Aristotle Onassis, who is reported to be taking an apartment there. The operators promise every conceivable con...

All that really counts these days is money
2007-09-28 16:02:00
"All that really counts these days is money," Aristotle Onassis once said. "It's the people with money who are the royalty now." By that maxim, the ambitious, expansive Greek shipping magnate was a king of kings. Until he died of bronchial pneumonia in Paris last week at age 69, after months of suffering from myasthenia gravis (a debilitating disease that weakens the body muscles), Onassis had flamboyantly ruled an empire of ocean tankers and airlines, banks, real estate holdings and trading companies. His total worth, despite financial reverses in recent months, was estimated to be at least $500 million. 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...
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Athina's Onassis battle
2007-09-28 16:01:00
On Jan. 29 Athina Roussel opened her eyes to a world filled with opportunity and excitement. It was her 21st birthday, fresh cause to celebrate only eight weeks after her wedding to a dashing Brazilian equestrian, Alvaro Alfonso de Miranda Neto, known to his bride and the world's press as "Doda." On the face of it, everything was finally turning rosy for the young woman whose early life had been scarred by the tragic death of her mother, Christina Onassis , and circumscribed by the pressures of enormous wealth ? an estimated $600 million she picked up as sole heiress to her mother's fortune. Even so, Athina, the last direct descendant of the legendary Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis, had reason to expect more last weekend. She grew up believing she would inherit the remainder of her family's fortune ? in excess of $1 billion ? and assume a hereditary role at the helm of the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation, an organization managing corporate and charitable operations. But t...
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Onassis's Saudi Business
2007-09-28 15:59:00
Since Aristotle Socrates Onassis signed an agreement with King Saud Ibn Abdul Aziz to form a company for shipping Saudi Arabian oil, the Greek-born tanker tycoon has found his scuppers awash with criticism. Other shippingmen attacked the deal as a step toward monopolizing the shipment of Saudi Arabian oil;* the British and U.S. Governments both protested to Saudi Arabia that the deal would squeeze out shipping companies now carrying the oil. And Arabian American Oil Co. (Aramco) complained that its interests as a producer were endangered. The New York Journal of Commerce reported that more trouble was blowing up for "Ari" Onassis. Ship Owner and Broker Spiridon Katapodis had filed a sworn deposition with the British consulate at Nice charging that Onassis had landed the contract only by paying high Saudi Arabian officials more than $1,000,000. Katapodis, who said that he was supposed to get $1,000,000 himself for being Onassis' go-between in the deal, announced in Paris this week t...
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Onassis legacy
2007-07-01 19:04:00
In the Name of the GrandfatherThe Battle to Control the Legacy of Aristotle Onassis Aghia Foteini's dominance of Nea Smyrna's skyline is not a mere matter of geography. Twin belfries accentuate the grandeur of the church built by the Athens suburb's refugee residents in remembrance of the main Orthodox temple in the famed Asia Minor city of Smyrna-the home they fled in terror when Kemal Ataturk's troops set the city aflame in 1922. Among those forced to abandon his natal home was the 22-year-old Aristotle Onassis, the late shipping tycoon who became known around the world as "the golden Greek."To the left of the church, scaffolding obscures an arch-wide enough for a car-above which rises an even taller bell tower, a replica of the one in Smyrna. It is being built with funds from the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation. For a church with two steeples, the third may seem excessive. But excess is a part of the Onassis legend. This may be why the Aghia Foteini bell tower, ...

ONASSIS
2007-06-30 00:57:00
The Battle to Control the Legacy of Aristotle Onassis Aghia Foteini's dominance of Nea Smyrna's skyline is not a mere matter of geography. Twin belfries accentuate the grandeur of the church built by the Athens suburb's refugee residents in remembrance of the main Orthodox temple in the famed Asia Minor city of Smyrna-the home they fled in terror when Kemal Ataturk's troops set the city aflame in 1922. Among those forced to abandon his natal home was the 22-year-old Aristotle Onassis, the late shipping tycoon who became known around the world as "the golden Greek."To the left of the church, scaffolding obscures an arch-wide enough for a car-above which rises an even taller bell tower, a replica of the one in Smyrna. It is being built with funds from the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation. For a church with two steeples, the third may seem excessive. But excess is a part of the Onassis legend. This may be why the Aghia Foteini bell tower, trivial beside the Foundation...

Onassis Empire
2006-11-18 06:28:00
Aristotle Onassis , founder of the immense Onassis empire, was one of the most remarkable businessmen of the 20th century.He showed his aptitude for challenge at an early age when he succeeded in helping his father escape from a concentration camp during WWI.The 16-year-old Aristotle lied about his age to avoid detention and then devised a plan to liberate his parent.The Onassis legacy begins when, as a teenager, he famously arrived on the docks of Buenos Aires with only $60 in his pocket. In the years that followed the Turkish-born entrepreneur built up a successful tobacco business in Argentina, marking the beginning of one of the 20th century's greatest rags-to-riches stories.After purchasing his first ships in the early 1930s Ari moved into the tanker business and went on to marry, in 1946, the daughter of Greek shipowner Stavros Livanos. The two men joined forces with fellow countrymen Stavros Niarchos to form the most powerful shipping cartel in the world.The world's first oi...
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The Life of Aristotle Onassis
2006-11-16 18:45:00
1. Introduction2. The Escape from Smirne3. The New World4. The Penelope and the Socrates5. The Liberty Fleet and the OPM Technique6. Colombo's Egg7. Whale Hunting8. From the Sea to the Sky9. The Decay1. IntroductionThe life and character of Aristotle Onassis , in many ways, exhibited strong similarities to that of the Greek mythological figure Odysseus. Although never a passionate reader, Aristotle was fascinated by the story of Odysseus -- about his eternal journey in search of chimera and adventures and his ultimate return to his native country to reign in peace on his people. This character always attracted him as he felt the sense of a similar destiny and that he, as did Odysseus, knew how to exist above all will.Ari was brought up in an environment consumed by the rigorous principles of the Orthodox Church. But inside him, there remained only a deep religious sense of man as he grew older, a sense that respects the strength of superior events while de-emphasizing the will of a ...
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