Origin

Born: January 15, 1906

Died: March 15, 1975

Location: Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (now İzmir, Turkey)

Father: Socrates Onassis

Mother: ?

Wife 1: Athina Livanos

Wife 2: Jacqueline Kennedy

Children: 1 son, Alexander (April 30, 1948 – January 23, 1973) 1 daughter, Christina (December 11, 1950 – November 19, 1988)

Religion: ?

Nationality: Greek

Education

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Legal Issues

Fraud against US government illegally using foreign owned ships to transport tobacco into the United States: Paid $7 million

Business

Cigarette Business: Imported tobacco from Turkey using his father as his connection in Turkey. He sabotaged competators and illegally used the names of well established cigarette companies to sell his products faster. And also smuggled the importation of tobacco so as to avoid paying taxes. He made his first million dollars by age 25.

1957: Founded Olympic Airways

Utilized investors money:  Financed the purchase of cargo ships and oil tankers; signing contracts to ship goods prior to owning the ships that would transport them.

Transported Oil using ships registered to Panama to avoid taxes.