The gossip columnists reported that he was superstitious and believed that she had brought “the tragedy of the kingdom of Camelot” with her. The mogul fell into depression and, according to publications at the time, he blamed his wife for the incident. But the scandal coincided with the tragic death of his son Alexander, who died in a plane crash in January 1973. Shortly after the photos were published, Ari Onassis began planning his divorce. Her children, Caroline, 15, and John, 12, were bullied because of the photos. But she was not the only victim in this case of abuse. The scoop violated Jackie’s privacy she had not consented to these photos being taken. He explained to me that if they were published, Ari would be furious and hopefully get rid of his new wife.” He told me: ‘I want them to be published!’ He didn’t like Jackie, and neither did his sister Christina. “I mentioned to him that there were some nude photographs of Jackie. Garritano never confirmed if it was Onassis himself who was behind the leak, but he did admit that Alexander Onassis, the son of the shipping company owner, was aware of the existence of the photographic material. The photojournalist publicly acknowledged that an employee of Olympic Airways, Onassis’ airline, was the one who tipped him off about Kennedy’s stay on the island, and that a Skorpios worker revealed to him that the lady liked to sunbathe without clothes. Why did she want to show herself? I never thought it would happen,” said the Italian paparazi years later.
“She knew she was being photographed on Skorpios. That would explain how the photographer Settimio Garritano managed to get around the island’s security and be in the exact place, at the precise time, and on the precise day, to snap Jackie resting, reading, taking a nap, doing yoga, swimming, smoking, and sunbathing naked.
The front cover of 'Srew' magazine from 1973, which published photos of Jackie Kennedy sunbathing nude. Andersen claims that the Greek tycoon, tired of being scorned by her, orchestrated the clandestine operation by providing 10 photographers with detailed maps of Skorpios and timing plans of when Jackie would be on the beach. and the Mother He Loved, Andersen recounts that the shipowner bullied his wife, made fun of her, and used his contacts in the press to publicly humiliate her. It was also a first and incipient case of revenge porn, a kind of sexual harassment that consists of disseminating intimate images without the consent of the person in them for the purpose of causing embarrassment.Īccording to American journalist Christopher Andersen, former editor of People magazine, Aristotle Onassis was behind the publication of the photos with the intention of harming his wife. It was the most successful issue in the history of the publication, which closed in 2003 on the verge of bankruptcy and unable to pay its employees’ salaries. Al Goldstein sold 144,000 copies of Screw in its first seven days and more than half a million in the following week. She was “America’s Widow,” the most photographed woman in the country, the holy grail of the paparazzi. But the former first lady was not just any famous person. It was not the first time that photographs of a celebrity like Jackie Kennedy without clothes were published. Inside there was a photo titled “Jackie Kennedy’s Billion-Dollar Bush,” a derogatory and misogynistic play on words that made reference to the former first lady of the United States and to the immense fortune of her husband, at that time estimated at $1 billion ($100 billion, about €91 billion, today). “Naked Jackie Kennedy!” was the front-page headline chosen by Al Goldstein, owner and publisher of the pornographic pamphlet. A few months later, in February 1973, Screw magazine published the images in America. Jackie’s photographs caused a stir and outrage in public opinion and a small earthquake in high political circles. Bootleg copies of Playmen appeared in New York and Washington. The reaction of the Americans was not the same. The Greek tycoon did not seem surprised or outraged by the unauthorized images of Jackie, then 43, as God had brought her into the world: sunbathing bikini-less, carefree, and without losing her graceful demeanor as a former student of Miss Porter’s School in Connecticut. Kennedy, appeared completely naked during her summer vacation on the private island of Skorpios (Greece). In that issue, his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, widow of President John F. My wife does the same thing,” commented an unperturbed Aristotle Onassis when journalists showed him a copy of the Italian magazine Playmen in December 1972. “Sometimes I have to undress to put on my bathing suit.
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