The Dark Story of Jackie Kennedy's Money: The Onassis Years

Описание: When Aristotle Onassis died in March 1975, his handwritten will gave Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis $250,000 a year, and said she would lose even that if she pressed any claim on his estate. She had already signed away her claims in a marriage agreement, and The Times of London reported that Onassis had the Greek civil code changed to make that agreement hold. After 18 months of talks, his daughter Christina paid her $20 million to walk away for good.

This is the money story of the marriage: the $34,000 navy hull that became the yacht Christina, the island of Skorpios bought for about $25,000, the allowance and the bills the columnist Jack Anderson reported in 1975, the will Onassis wrote by hand on a flight from Mexico to New York, the one sentence in it that left Jackie a way through, and what became of the yacht, the island and the fortune afterwards.

Chapters:
0:00 The Yacht Christina and Jackie Kennedy
1:38 How Onassis Built the Christina and Bought Skorpios
3:49 Jackie's Money Before Onassis
5:31 The 1968 Wedding and the Marriage Agreement
7:33 The Allowance and Separate Lives
9:22 The Bills Onassis Complained About
11:56 The Steward's Book and the 170-Clause Contract
13:34 The Handwritten Will of 1974
15:06 The Funeral on Skorpios, 1975
16:51 The Will: $250,000 a Year and One-Eighth
19:29 Christina Onassis Pays $20 Million
22:59 Jackie at Work, and Her Estate
25:08 What Happened to Skorpios and the Onassis Fortune
27:15 The Christina O Today

Sources: Nicholas Gage in The New York Times (September 1977) and the New York Times News Service text of the will; The Times of London (June 1975); TIME (March and April 1975); the Associated Press (1975, 1988 and 1994); UPI (1988); Jack Anderson and Les Whitten's Washington Post columns (April 1975); the International Herald Tribune (1971 and 1977); RR Auction's description of the signed settlement agreement (2009); Forbes (2003); American Heritage (1993); The Spectator (1986 and 1994); The New York Times (1994 and 1996); the biographies of Christopher Andersen and Edward Klein; CNN (2026). Named sources only. This video covers the family's money, not its politics.

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