During this period, Onassis lost three uncles, an aunt, and her husband Chrysostomos Konialidis and their daughter, who were burned to death in a church in Thyatira where 500 Christians were seeking shelter from the Great Fire of Smyrna.Īt age 17 in 1923, Onassis arrived in Buenos Aires, Argentina, by Nansen passport, and got his first job as a telephone operator with the British United River Plate Telephone Company, while following studies in commerce and port-duty administration at Aduanas Argentinas. The Onassis family's substantial property holdings were lost, causing them to become refugees fleeing to Greece after the Great fire of Smyrna in 1922.
Smyrna was briefly administered by Greece (1919–1922) in the aftermath of the Allied victory in World War I, but then Smyrna was re-taken by Turkey during the Greco-Turkish War (1919–22). Onassis was greatly affected by the death of his 24-year-old son, Alexander, in a plane crash in 1973, and he died two years later. In the 1960s, Onassis attempted to establish a large investment contract-Project Omega-with the Greek military junta, and he sold Olympic Airways, which he had founded in 1957. In the mid-1950s, he sought to secure an oil shipping arrangement with Saudi Arabia and engaged in whaling expeditions. Moving to Monaco, Onassis fought Prince Rainier III for economic control of the country through his ownership of SBM and its Monte Carlo Casino. He moved to Argentina in 1923 and established himself as a tobacco trader and later a shipping owner during the Second World War. Onassis was born in Smyrna (modern-day İzmir in Turkey) and fled the city with his family to Greece in 1922 in the wake of the catastrophe of Smyrna.
Livanos), had a long-standing affair with opera singer Maria Callas and was married to Jacqueline Kennedy, the widow of US President John F. He was married to Athina Mary Livanos (daughter of shipping tycoon Stavros G. Aristotle Socrates Onassis ( / oʊ ˈ n æ s ɪ s/, US also /- ˈ n ɑː-/ Greek: Αριστοτέλης Ωνάσης, romanized: Aristotélis Onásis, IPA: 20 January 1906 – 15 March 1975), was a Greek shipping magnate who amassed the world's largest privately-owned shipping fleet and was one of the world's richest men.
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