Jackie Kennedy’s second husband, billionaire Aristotle Onassis, was bisexual and “savagely” beat young male prostitutes after sex, a new book has revealed.
Onassis – whom Jackie married in 1968, five years after her first husband, President John F Kennedy, was assassinated – also beat Jackie and gave her a ‘black eye’, DailyMail.com columnist Maureen Callahan reveals in an impressive biography.
In ‘Don’t Ask: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed – which is being published by the Mail in a major new series – Callahan writes about Onassis’s ‘a series of bought and paid for young men, some of whom he brutally beat after sex.”
Onassis loved to sexually humiliate Jackie too, Callahan reveals: ‘[He] loved having sex with her in places where people could see them, including on airplanes.
Jackie was 39 when she announced her engagement to Onassis, and was then 62. He had built the largest private shipping fleet in the world, making him one of the richest men in the world.
Jackie Kennedy’s second husband, billionaire Aristotle Onassis (pictured in 1974), was bisexual and ‘savagely beat’ young male prostitutes after sex, a new book reveals.
Onassis (pictured in 1972) – whom Jackie married in 1968, five years after her first husband, President John F Kennedy, was assassinated – also beat Jackie and gave her a ‘black eye’, DailyMail.com columnist Maureen Callahan reveals in a bomb biography.
“Onassis was seen by high society as a gnome-like vulgar,” Callahan writes. ‘His affair with the opera singer Maria Callas was known.’
Their engagement was met with worldwide outrage and appeared on the front cover of the New York Times with the headline: “The reaction here is anger, shock and dismay.”
“The Vatican denounced her,” Callahan writes, “Jackie Kennedy – America’s former heroine – would now be seen and written about as nothing more than a prostitute who had sold herself on the world market.”
Despite the setback, their marriage went ahead with a carefully drafted contract containing 170 clauses, including provisions on how often they would have sex and millions of dollars up front for Jackie.
At first, Callahan writes, their marriage seemed happy enough, with the couple dividing their time between New York, Onassis’ private Greek island, and his yacht.
But over the next two years their relationship deteriorated, and Callahan says, “Onassis began to openly despise his wife; as feared, Jackie was a once brilliant asset that had lost its luster. He started insulting Jackie in front of their guests.”
Onassis died in March 1975, making Jackie one of the richest women in the world.