Alexander Onassis
| Alexander Onassis | |
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| Born |
April 30, 1948 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | January 23, 1973 (aged 24) Athens, Greece |
| Cause of death | Injuries sustained in an airplane crash |
| Resting place | Skorpios, Ionian Islands, Greece |
| Occupation | Businessman; President of Olympic Aviation |
| Parent(s) |
Aristotle Onassis (father) Athina Livanos (mother) |
| Relatives |
Christina Onassis (sister) Athina Onassis (niece) |
Alexander Socrates Onassis (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Ωνάσης; April 30, 1948 – January 23, 1973) was a Greek businessman. He was the son of the Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis and his first wife Tina Livanos. He and his sister Christina Onassis were upset by his father's marriage to Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, and he was credited with attempting to improve the relationship between his father and Stavros Niarchos.
Born in New York City, Onassis was not formally educated and worked for several years for his father at his Monaco headquarters. The relationship between Onassis and his father experienced tensions as a result of his secret relationship with Fiona Thyssen, former wife of Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza. He was later appointed the head of Olympic Aviation, a Greek regional airline owned by his father. Onassis died in hospital as a result of injuries sustained in an air crash at Ellinikon International Airport at the age of 24. The Alexander S. Onassis Foundation was established in his memory.
Alexander Socrates Onassis was born at the Harkness Pavilion, a private clinic in New York City's NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital. He was the elder child of the Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis (1906 –1975) and his first wife, Athina Livanos (1929 –1974), herself a daughter of a Greek shipping magnate, Stavros G. Livanos. Onassis was named after his father's uncle, who was hanged by a Turkish military tribunal during their sacking of Smyrna in September 1922. Onassis's sister, Christina, was born in 1950.
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