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Magnificent Obsession

VANITY FAIR Magnificent Obsession By James Reginato Photographer Jonathan Becker May 24, 2011 In 1961, Sunny wed Athina “Tina” Onassis, née Livanos. The daughter of Greek shipping magnate Stavros Livanos, she had just ended her 14-year marriage to Aristotle Onassis, with whom she had two children, Alexander and Christina. (In 1971, following her divorce from Sunny, she would marry Onassis’s arch-rival, Stavros Niarchos—her sister Eugenie’s widower. She died in 1974.) The new blended family settled into Lee Place, a handsome Georgian country house about five miles from Blenheim. As Henrietta wrote in her memoir, Blenheim and the Churchill Family: A Personal Portrait, the early years of the marriage were happy for everyone, especially Christina: “For the first time, she was having a relatively normal childhood—attending a local school, riding her horse Cobweb, and enjoying sport and pets as opposed to the high social life [She] adored my nanny, who, unlike anyone else, treated her like o...
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Portsmouth Evening News - Saturday 05 January 1957

Airlines for Mr. Onassis   "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 - Reuter".  
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Sunday Express - Sunday 04 March 1956

Mrs Onassis "It will be many weeks before Mrs Aristotle Onassis, 26, is seen in public again. The wife of the Greek shipping millionaire was very badly injured in her car crash last week, Her jaw, nose and both cheek bones are broken and her face is badly cit.  The latest photographs taken of her - at a fancy dress party a few days ago - have been sent to Samedan, Switzerland, where she is in hospital. Professor Jorgi Reudi, internationally known surgeon, asked for them before he started operating yesterday. He was flown in from Zurich in Onassis private plane.  Mrs Onassis, who was driving, was on the way to a quiet skiing slope a few miles outside St Moritz when the car crashed. With her were two friends - Countess Marina Cicogna of Venice and Sandy Whitelaw, the young British ski-ing champion.  Countess Cicogna has several broken ribs, but Whitelaw, who was in the back seat, escaped with bruises.  Mr Onassis was not in St. Moritz at the time of the accident"....
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Daily News (London) - Tuesday 06 May 1958

 Malta wants Onassis, but he's still happy at Monte Carlo  (John London) "When I telephoned Aristotle Onassis the Greek shipping millionaire in New York yesterday to tell him that people in Malta are looking to him as their economic saviour, he burst into a roar of laughter. He declared 'It's the first time I've ever heard a suggestion like this'.  All the same, the George Cross islanders are enthusiastic about the idea that Mr Onassis should move the headquarters of his tanker fleet from Monte Carlo and thereby ease Malta's economic problems.  An editorial in the newspaper Voice of Truth, declares 'Onassis should be invited to Malta by the Governor, Sir Robert Laycock, who is one of the best hosts we have ever had. They can get together and discuss the question with our political leaders'.  No one, however, has so far invited the King of the Seven Seas. In fact he told me: 'I'd had no knowledge that anybody thought that way there'.  Pre...
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Sunday Express - Sunday 03 January 1960

Onassis's Offer Mr Aristotle Onassis hopes that he may still be able to act as host to Sir Winston Churchill, who now holidaying in Monte Carlo, has elected to rent a suite in the Hotel de Paris. For Mr Onassis controls the hotel.  He tells me: "Nothing has been said about this yet, but I certainly hope that Sir Winston will accept my offer that he should be my personal guest for as long as he stays at the hotel. I will be very sad if he does not accept". The suite that Sir Winston is occupying is in the hotel's new pent house. It has three bedrooms and a sun balcony from which Sir Winston will be able to paint. I understand that it would normally cost about £50 a day to rent. 
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Daily Express - Tuesday 06 November 1973

 Niarchos showed Jackie and Ari around his new yacht, the Atlantis. 
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Sunday Express - Sunday 12 September 1976

The Secrets of Jackie's strange marriage to Onassis  Graham Lord "Not that the marriage was simply a platonic contractual arrangement. Mr Frischauer says it was indeed consummated, but it swiftly became a very odd union." "It was an indication of the sort of marriage this was to be. While the new Mrs Onassis set about spending some money - adding for instance to her stock of 300 pairs of shoes, and flitting too and fro across the Atlantic - the old Mr Onassis carried on as before, carousing in Athens while she was in America and even still wining and dining his ex mistress, Maria Callas, in Paris.  Togetherness was rare." "Even when they were aboard his own yacht Onassis was turned out of his master stateroom - "it was inconceivable for Jackie to inhabit a cabin which was smaller or in any way inferior to another" - and relegated to a smaller one, so that he "felt like a guest aboard".  Writes Mr Frischauer, "When they were together...
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