ARISTOTLE ONASSIS (1906-1975) a.k.a. “Golden Greek” -(Born Jan. 20, 1906, Smyrna, Tur. — died March 15, 1975, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris, France)
- The son of a tobacco dealer, he started a tobacco-importing business in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-He was made consul general after negotiating a trade agreement for the Greek government.
-A millionaire by age 25, bought his first freight ships in 1932.
In the 1940s and '50s his fleet grew until it was larger than the navies of many countries. He acquired business interests in Monte Carlo, and from 1957 to 1974 he owned and operated Olympic Airways, the Greek national airline. He conducted a long affair with opera star Maria Callas, and in 1968 married Jacqueline Kennedy , in which according to the theory advanced in a book of his biographer, Peter Evans, Onassis had a long-standing hatred of Kennedy even before he fell for Jackie's charms.
The Onassis link is one of dozens of conspiracy theories surrounding Kennedy's death. In 2006, new evidence suggested three senior CIA operatives were at the scene.
By Anita Singh, Showbusiness Editor
Published: 12:50PM BST 22 Aug 2008
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