Who Was Aristotle Onassis?

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To get her to smoke his brand in public, he showed up at her dressing room with a giant bouquet of flowers. His first bigger Fortune in Tobacco came in the mid-1920s Onassis got the idea to start his own brand of cigarettes aimed at the female market. He chose famous opera singer, Claudia Muzio, as the perfect model. Amazingly, Onassis seduced her. She smoked his brand of cigarettes. The relationship proved to be very lucrative for Onassis and by the age of 25, his tobacco business made him a millionaire.

This big and charming man was born on January 15, 1906 in Smyrna, a town in Turkey. He was called "Ari" by mostly everyone. He was never a good student but his father hoped Aristotle would take over the family business. After some incidents in Down where he lived Ari decided to move to Buenos Aires. In 1923, he got a job as a telephone engineer. After some time he was able to set up his own deals and business. He succeeded and he had started to live life full of expensive things, expensive living in general.

Personal life of Onassis was full of happiness but unhappiness too. He had a lot of women from higher society. He was married to Jackie Kennedy for example. In 1946, he met the daughter of the richest shipping magnate in the world, Athina Livanos, a woman almost half his age. They got married and had two children. After some time of affairs he met Maria Callas, one of the most famous opera singers in the world. Onassis was so proud of his relationship with Callas that he began to flaunt it. Athina was wrecked by embarrassment and divorced him in 1960. Then Jackie Kennedy (the wife of US President, John Fitzgerald Kennedy). In 1968 they got married and the public didn't take it really well. Media was full of this news that Jackie, after JFK passed away, married another man. His son Alexander, who worked with him, died in 1973 in a terrible plane crash. After this Aristotle was devastated, his son and heir was gone.

Two years later, he died. He died on March 15, 1975 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. And for small distraction they say that his true love, Maria Callas never recovered from his death. She died two and half years after him.