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'''Aristotelis Sokratis Onassis''' (in Greek, Αριστοτέλης Ωνάσης) (January_15, 1906 – March_15, 1975) was the most famous Greek shipping magnate of the 20th_century.
==Life==
Onassis was born in Smyrna, Ottoman_Empire (now Izmir, Turkey) to a middle-class Greek family. At the time of his birth, Smyrna had a very significant and prosperous Greek population. After being briefly occupied by Greece (1919 – 1922) in the aftermath of the allied victory in World_War_I, the city was re-captured by Turkey; the Onassis family holdings were lost, causing them to move to Greece as Refugees. Aristotle Onassis revived the family's tobacco business in Argentina in the early 1920s. In 1925 he received Argentinian and Greek citizenships. Onassis purchased his first ships in the early 1930s. By 1932, he had become a world-class businessman, owning commercial ships, tankers and whalers. He founded Olympic Airways (today Olympic_Airlines), the Greek national carrier, in 1957. In 1954, the FBI investigated Onassis for fraud against the U.S. government. He was charged with violating the citizenship provision of the shipping laws which require that all ships displaying the US flag be owned by US citizens. Onassis entered a guilty plea and paid $7 million.
Onassis married Athina_Mary_Livanos, daughter of shipping magnate Stavros_Livanos, on December_28, 1946; their son, Alexander (April_30, 1948 – January_23, 1973), and daughter Christina (December 11, 1950 – November 19, 1988), were both born in New_York_City. After their divorce, Athina married her late sister's widower (and Onassis's arch shipping rival) Stavros_Niarchos.
Despite the fact they were both married, Onassis and Opera diva Maria_Callas embarked on a notorious affair. According to ''Greek Fire: The Story of Maria Callas and Aristotle Onassis'' by Nicholas Gage, Callas gave birth to their child, a boy, who died hours later on March_30, 1960. Onassis ended his relationship with Callas to marry Jacqueline Kennedy, the widow of U.S. President John_F._Kennedy, on October_20, 1968.
Onassis died at age 69, on March 15, 1975 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, of bronchial Pneumonia, a complication of the Myasthenia_gravis he had been suffering from during the last years of his life. His son Alexander had died earlier in an airplane crash. Christina inherited his fortune, which has since passed to her only child, Athina_Roussel.
Onassis, Aristotle
Onassis, Aristotle
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Onassis, Aristotle
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