1. Christina Onassis was a Greek-Argentine businesswoman, socialite and heiress to the Onassis fortune.
16 Facts About Christina Onassis
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Christina Onassis was the only daughter of Aristotle Onassis and Athina Mary "Tina" Livanos.
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Christina Onassis, the only daughter of the Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis and his first wife, Tina Onassis Niarchos, was born in Lenox Hill, Manhattan at the LeRoy Sanitarium.
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Christina Onassis attended the Headington School in Oxford and Queen's College, London from 1968 to 1969.
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Christina Onassis later married former US First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, widow of US President John F Kennedy, in 1968.
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Christina Onassis's mother married in 1971 Stavros Niarchos, the widower of her sister and Christina Onassis's aunt Eugenia Livanos in 1971.
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Christina Onassis's mother died of a suspected drug overdose in 1974, leaving Christina her $77 million estate.
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Christina Onassis was sent to New York City to work in his office.
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Christina Onassis carried the mantle of the Onassis shipping empire, successfully running the business after her father's death.
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Christina Onassis received considerable media attention for her lavish lifestyle, spending habits, and turbulent personal life.
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Christina Onassis frequently went on crash diets and would lose large amounts of weight, only to gain it back when she became depressed.
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Christina Onassis was reportedly hospitalized for overdosing on sleeping pills in the 1970s.
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Christina Onassis wed her first husband, real estate developer Joseph Bolker, at age 20 in 1971.
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On 19 November 1988, Christina Onassis's body was found by her maid in the bathtub of a mansion in Tortuguitas, outside of Buenos Aires, where she had been staying.
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An autopsy found no evidence of suicide, drug overdose or foul play, but found that Christina Onassis had died of a heart attack caused by acute pulmonary edema.
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Christina Onassis willed her fortune, worth an estimated $250 million, to her only child, Athina.