Aristotle Onassis' Tragic Collapse After the Death of His Son, Alexander

Aristotle Onassis' Tragic Collapse After the Death of His Son, Alexander

His son’s death led Aristotle Onassis to his tragic downfall less than two years later. Illustration credit Greek Reporter from Wikimedia Commons Aristotle Onassis’s, Alexander, died on this day (January 23) in 1973. Onassis never recovered from the shock and grief, dying two years later. The death of Alexander Onassis, the successor of the Greek shipping magnate, was the beginning of the Onassis family’s Greek tragedy, as Aristotle’s daughter, …

Alexander Onassis, the son of the great Greek shipowner Aristotle Onassis, died at the age of 25 in a plane crash.