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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