The Shipping Tycoon Who Married the Wife of a U.S. President
The rise and fall of Aristotle Onassis
The world was in shock when the news announced that the widow of one of the most powerful men in the world was getting married to one of the richest men in the world.
Nearly five years after her husband — the late U.S. President John F. Kennedy — was assassinated, the thirty-nine-year-old former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy felt ready to move on and to be called Jacqueline O. the new wife of the shipping tycoon, Aristotle Onassis. America and other countries didn’t take this news kindly, for it hurt her reputation. Some people mentioned that Jacqueline married Onassis for his money, while others believed that Onassis married Jacqueline to buy himself much-needed respectability.
They got married on 20th October 1968 on Onassis’s private Greek island, Skorpios, in front of close families and friends. There were no flowers at the ceremony, and the small chapel where they wedded was lit only by candlelight. From there, the guests boarded Onassis’s yacht for a floating reception. The world’s press had moved to Skorpios and ventured on fishing boats to get a glimpse of the ceremony.
A few years after getting married to Jacqueline, tragedy struck, and the Onassis family was never the same. Aristotle died on…
