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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...
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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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14th Foreigner?s Onassis Fellowship Programme 2008/2009 from the Greece
2007-12-30 14:52:00 The Foundation announces the fourteenth (14th) annual Programme of research grants and educational scholarships starting on October 1st, 2008
Zeffirelli su Onassis: "Era bisessuale"
2007-12-10 01:25:00 Zeffirelli su Onassis: “Era bisessuale” di Giuseppe Iannozzi Franco Zeffirelli ci fa una rivelazione che forse, trent’anni or sono, avrebbe fatto il giro del mondo, oggi non più. L’armatore greco Aristotele Onassis “era un bisessuale di comodo” e non amava Maria Callas. A dirlo è Zeffirelli, recentemente insignito del Premio Leonardo alla carriera. Lo dichiara a Diva e Donna, dove parla anche delle sue tante grandi amiche. Zeffirelli dedica però molta della sua memoria alla Divina Callas: «Una donna mai amata, tanto meno da Onassis che usava la fama di lei per i suoi affari e che tentò pure di sedurmi, anche se pochi sanno della sua bisessualità di comodo». Nell’intervista che sarà in edicola sul settimanale diretto da Silvana Giacobini, Zeffirelli parla anche di Anna Magnani; Zeffirelli la ricorda come «una dura dai difetti tremendi ...
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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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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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...
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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 ...
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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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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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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 legacy
2007-07-01 19:04:00 In the Name of the GrandfatherThe Battle to Control the Legacy of Aristotle OnassisAghia 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, ...
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ONASSIS
2007-06-30 00:57:00 The Battle to Control the Legacy of Aristotle OnassisAghia 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...
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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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ONASSIS SAGA
2006-11-16 17:56:00 When his son Alexander was killed in a plane crash in 1973, Aristotle seemed to lose his lust for the pursuit of profit. "I'm not happy. It's not always millions that resolve what a man needs," he told an associate who congratulated him on the continuing success of his tanker fleet. He died two years later, leaving his vast estate to be divided between his daughter Christina and The Onassis Foundation, which promotes charity, art, and development in Greece.The fortune afforded Christina a lavish lifestyle, with homes in Athens, Paris, Acapulco and New York along with the island of Skorpios and her father's huge art collection. The money did not bring her happiness, however, and she died alone and in despair in 1988. And so the legacy was passed to her daughter Athina.Her father, Thierry, spent a decade fighting to wrest control of the money from the Greek businessmen Christina left in charge. He persuaded the trustees to allow him $13 million a year to raise little Athina, along ...
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Onassis - The Legend
2006-11-16 11:07:00 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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ONASSIS - WHEN WE MET
2006-11-15 21:48:00 I knew really well Aristotle Onassis.I never built a ship for Onassis, because I would never agree to his payment conditions (nor he to mine!). I did however build ships for many great Greek ship owners including, Papachristidis, Goulandris, Lemos, Embiricos, Vardiarnos, etc.I would not build ships for him without something exceeding 50 percent of the cost deposited with us as a non-returnable cash down-payment. He of course, did not do business that way. Many of the Greek shipowners for whom I did build millions of dollars worth of ships were originally introduced to me by Onassis.I was one of the originators of the "Flags of Convenience" registry techniques in Canada, and of construction subsidies and accelerated depreciation as applied to ships registered in Canada. I guess that Onassis may have had some financial interest in some of those ships. I spent time with Ari Onassis when he travelled from New York incognito, on order that I, as a friend could help him to privately exam...
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Onassis - LIFE
2006-11-15 17:35:00 Aristotle Onassis had several places where he did most of his business in New York: One was his office at Olympic Airways on Fifth Avenue; another a few blocks away at the 21 Club and at night his favorite place was the famous El Morocco night club.Once after the war we also met at the Harvard Club on 44th Street where with Spyros Skouras we discussed the possible purchase of the Liberty Ships which were being sold, if I remember correctly, for as little as $5,000 per ship. The only problem was that you had to be an U.S. citizen to be eligible to purchase the ships. Somehow, Onassis managed to buy a good number of ships and made a tremendous profit. This resulted in some problems with the U.S. Attorney's office which later, however, were settled legally and amicably.I also remember a meeting in Athens where Valerie Valentine had planned one of our annual cultural symposiums and a reception at the U.S. Embassy. Onassis had not received an invitation to the Embassy reception (I don'...
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Aristotle Onassis Lifestyle
2006-11-15 11:55:00 Ari was one of my best friends, I have spent many time with him doing business or on leisure. You will find below some of his favorite places and information on his lifestyle. There is too much places to list, I will update this from time to time but if you need to know anything else let me know.To buy an Island (maybe near Skorpios)http://www.privateisla-ndsonline.com/To buy Onassis favorite cars (Ari liked particularily his Rolls Royce Corniche and Mercedes Ponton)http://www.rolls-roycemo-torcars.com/http://www.mercedes--benz.gr/To buy your private JEThttp://www.aso.com/i.aso3/To- buy Onassis sunglasses (his private provider)http://www.maisonbonne-t.com/angver/menu.htmTo make a cruise on Onassis yacht "Christina O"http://www.elite-yachting.gr/-christina_o.htmhttp://www.yacht-ing-greece.com/index.htmlOnassi-s favorite HotelsUSA - NY - Hotel Le Pierrehttp://www.fourseasons.co-m/pierre/USA - Los Angeles - The Beverly Hills Hotelhttp://www.thebeverlyhills-hotel.com/France -ParisFrance - French ...
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Tribute to Ari Onassis
2006-11-15 09:27:00 He married the widow of an American president, owned the famed Monte Carlo casino and 30 years after Aristotle Onassis?s death, his legacy is Greece?s claim to fame as the world?s shipping giant.The tycoon?s gamble to build supertankers to carry the world?s oil laid the foundation for Greek control over one in five tankers afloat ? and a similar share of other cargo shipping.The anniversary of his death March 15, 1975 at age 69 passed with little public notice, but his business inheritors and insiders remember a man who was bigger than life.In 1968 he married Jacqueline Kennedy, widow of President John F. Kennedy, putting Onassis in the international limelight. She died in 1994 and was buried next to the late president.?Today?s business world has become so automated, so corporate, I doubt if the Onassis name will ever be challenged as a byword for old-fashion entrepreneurial wealth and chutzpah (nerve),? Nigel Lowry, Athens correspondent of the authoritative shipping newspaper Lloyd...
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My pictures - Photo Book 1
2006-11-10 12:37:00 Please see all the pictures I have kept for a while on my friend Onassis.Onassis
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Ari's Last days
2006-02-10 10:11:00 I was in London with Hermione Gingold. She was playing in a West End production, and we were having a roaring good time as always, but my conscience bothered me every time I read a newspaper. Finally I flew to Paris to pay my respects to Aristotle Onassis, who was dying. I walked down the halls of the American Hospital, not sure of where he was, looking into rooms until I found him. His door was wide open and the room was dark. A door leading into an adjoining room was also open, but both rooms were empty except for the comatose man lying on the bed. No wife, no daughter, no family whatsoever was in sight. No private nurse, not even a security guard was with him, and Onassis looked as if he were already dead. His face was yellow and sunken and his body was shriveled up. He looked so small and helpless that anyone so inclined could have put him in a bag and carried him off. The scene was a replica of the last days of Onassis's brother-in-law, Dr. Patronikolas my cousin, who lay grav...
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Onassis & politics - Taub testimony
2005-09-13 13:09:00 I wish to share with you the testimony of my friend William L. Taub, I have wrote hereunder main informations he provide to me years ago.I was in London with Hermione Gingold. She was playing in a West End production, and we were having a roaring good time as always, but my conscience bothered me every time I read a newspaper.Finally I flew to Paris to pay my respects to Aristotle Onassis, who was dying. I walked down the halls of the American Hospital, not sure of where he was, looking into rooms until I found him. His door was wide open and the room was dark. A door leading into an adjoining room was also open, but both rooms were empty except for the comatose man lying on the bed. No wife, no daughter, no family whatsoever was in sight. No private nurse, not even a security guard was with him, and Onassis looked as if he were already dead. His face was yellow and sunken and his body was shriveled up. He looked so small and helpless that anyone so inclined could have put him in a ...
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