To Catch A Sunbeam

Wolverhampton Express and Star - Monday 11 July 1977 Shipping heiress Christina Onassis and her husband of two years, Alexandros Andreadis, have divorced. The divorce court in Athens said the dissolution was at the request of both parties, and did not elaborate.

Portsmouth Evening News - Saturday 05 January 1957 The Greek parliament has passed a Bill ratifying an agreement signed on July 31 between the Greek State and Mr Aristotle Onassis, granting him a 20 year concession to run and exploit local airlines and build up a network of air communications between Greece and the main air traffic centres of the world. The Bill provides for the formation of a company with an investment of about 15,000,000 dollars (£5,000,000). One of the first steps which Mr Onassis is expected to adopt is the replacing of all the outmoded equipment of T.A.E (the defunct Greek airlines) and the purchase of a number of new aircraft. 

Sunday Mirror 20th November 1988 SUPER-RICH shipping heiress Christina Onassis died of a heart attack in Argentina last night.   She collapsed in her bath-room while preparing to go swimming at a country club outside Buenos Aires.   The 38-year-old daughter of the golden Greek Aristotle Onassis was flown 25 miles by helicopter to hospital in Beunos Aires, but was pronounced dead on arrival.   Christina had frequent problems with obesity and weighed 14st, but it is not known if she was having treatment at the time of her death.   She was a frequent visitor to Argentina, staying at the country club home of her friends Marina Dodero and her husband Alberto, administrator of her father's estate.   Her death was immediately reported to her stepmother Jackie. Widow of assassinated President John Kennedy.   As one of the world's richest women, life should have been a bed of roses for Christina. But the millions she inherited from her ...

Reading Evening Post 24th October 1968 GREEK shipping magnate Mr Aristotle Onassis interrupted his honeymoon on Skorpios Island today to fly to Athens to sign a £170m contract with the Greek government.   Mr Onassis, who married Mrs Jacqueline Kennedy on Sunday, arrived alone at Athens Airport. He said that he was "very happy" about his marriage and was "spending a lovely time at Skorpios".   The contract with the Greek Government involves establishment of a group of inter-related industries, including an oil refinery, an aluminium industry, a shipyard and a series of tourist projects.   On some of these projects he is co-operating with the American Reynolds Metal Company.  CANCEL  Mr Onassis faces the possibility of losing his Argentine citizenship amid rumblings of Roman Catholic discontent over his marriage to Mrs Kennedy.  Public prosecutor Juan Zapiota asked a civil court yesterday to cancel Mr Onassis citizenship - taken out in 1929 - o...

Japanese screens: the finest Japanese painting is on screens, as a growing number of collectors outside this market's usual Japanese and American base is starting to realise. "On a visit to Spinks in London, Aristotle Onassis set his sights on a Japanese screen of such rarity and beauty that today it could not be exported from Japan. He asked that one panel be removed to enable the remainder to be converted into a coffee table for his yacht. Staff winced, and talked Onassis--and themselves--out of the sale." 

RETRO REPORT November, 1988  Byline: Edited by Tony Woolway ALLEGATIONS that Christina Onassis killed herself were rejected yesterday by the vice-president of the family foundation which managed her immense wealth. But Argentinian authorities continued to investigate her death. Miss Onassis, daughter of the late Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, died on Saturday at a Buenos Aires country club apparently of a heart attack. She was 37 years old. A Buenos Aires judge called her death questionable and ordered a post-mortem examination. He said that pills found near her would be analysed. The state news agency ANA reported Ioannis Georgakis, vice-president of the Alexander Onassis Foundation, as saying: "She died of heart failure and we reject these allegations... it seems her heart was too tired to overcome the attack." Her aunt, Mary Onassis, told reporters in Argentina she ruled out suicide because Miss Onassis was happy and content. Miss Onassis, who inherited her fath...