The Secrets of Jackie's strange marriage to Onassis

Sunday Express - Sunday 12 September 1976

"A tubby little old Greek shipowner called Aristotle Onassis" 
Alexander quoted "this preposterous marriage"
"Was she really so cold, calculating and plain greedy - that despite being a millionairess already - she could have sold herself to the highest bidder?"
Willi Frischaur quoted as saying, "They were totally unsuited to each other, and I cannot for the life of me say what they had in common" 
The article claims that Ari turned up drunk to the wedding on Skorpios in 1968 - "hardly a good omen considering his bride's aversion to heavy drinking after the death of one of her uncles due to booze". 
The rumor about there being no room for Ari came from WF book, and was repeated in several papers. Kiki denies it.
"But the differences were too great. She could not take to his Greek friends any more than he could fit into her arty socialite world" (there may have been an element of truth there) 
"His children and family were openly hostile to her" (note, only Christina and Alexander)

CHECK: Was the house that Jackie wanted to buy in Argentina, where she had honeymooned with JFK?

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