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  • Their love ignited in the summer of 1959, on Onassis's yacht.

    Inamoratas and Other Women Elizabeth Abbott 2011

  • And then some fly-by-night music journalist casually dismisses her in the pages of a mass circulation magazine as a cracked-voiced diva whose sole claim to fame was that she and Jackie O were rivals for Aristotle Onassis's affections.

    9/11 Truth and the Paranoid Style - Boing Boing 2009

  • Mrs. Onassis's airy suite, which rents for $5,000 a night, was more like it, boasting some of the more splendid views of Central Park I've ever seen, not only from the living room but also from the loo.

    The Prince's Pillows Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

  • He took on the role of spokesman when a reporter asked for the Kennedy family reaction to the bidding war that broke out at the 1996 auction of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's possessions.

    The Camelot Curse 2008

  • After Onassis's death, Jackie entered what Andersen describes as the most contented period of her life with her live-in companion, Maurice Tempelsman.

    The Lady And The Legend 2008

  • By posing as a gardener, Settimio Garritano gained access to Skorpios, Aristotle Onassis's private island, where he used a telephoto lens to get close-ups of Jackie sunbathing in the nude.

    Invasion of the Privacy Snatchers 2006

  • By posing as a gardener, Settimio Garritano gained access to Skorpios, Aristotle Onassis's private island, where he used a telephoto lens to get close-ups of Jackie sunbathing in the nude.

    Invasion of the Privacy Snatchers 2006

  • The popular assumption was that Jacqueline had gone berserk with grief over the deaths of Jack and Bobby Kennedy and that this was what drove her into Onassis's arms.

    Sinatra The Man Behind the Myth Taraborrelli, J. R. 1997

  • A frequent guest on Aristotle Onassis's yacht, Beard spent months on the island of Skorpios with Jackie and Lee, and once won $2,000 when Onassis bet him he couldn't stay underwater for four minutes.

    African Dreamer Bennetts, Leslie 1996

  • I could be content, I think, on Jacqueline Onassis's $ 1 0,000 a week.

    The Season of the Machete Patterson, James, 1947- 1977

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