To Catch A Sunbeam

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...