Editing Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (section)

=== Marriage to Aristotle Onassis ===
After Robert Kennedy's death in 1968, Kennedy reportedly suffered a relapse of the depression she had suffered in the days following her husband's assassination nearly five years prior.<ref>Pottker, p. 257.</ref> She came to fear for her life and those of her two children, saying: "If they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets ... I want to get out of this country."<ref name="jfkjr">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/19/us/john-f-kennedy-jr-heir-to-a-formidable-dynasty.html|title=John F. Kennedy Jr., Heir to a Formidable Dynasty|author=Seely, Katherine|date=July 19, 1999|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=November 8, 2009|archive-date=October 23, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211023085116/https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/19/us/john-f-kennedy-jr-heir-to-a-formidable-dynasty.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

On October 20, 1968, Jacqueline Kennedy married her long-time friend [[Aristotle Onassis]], a Greek shipping magnate who was able to provide the privacy and security she sought for herself and her children.<ref name="jfkjr" /> The wedding took place on [[Skorpios]], Onassis's private Greek island in the [[Ionian Sea]].<ref>Spoto, p. 266.</ref> After marrying Onassis, she took the legal name Jacqueline Onassis and consequently lost her right to Secret Service protection, which is an entitlement of a widow of a U.S. president. The marriage brought her considerable adverse publicity. The fact that Aristotle was divorced and his former wife [[Athina Livanos]] was still living led to speculation that Jacqueline might be [[excommunicated]] by the Roman Catholic church, though that concern was explicitly dismissed by [[Boston's archbishop]], Cardinal [[Richard Cushing]], as "nonsense".<ref>{{cite news |title=Cardinal Claims Excommunication Idea 'Nonsense,' in Talk about Jackie Kennedy |date=October 23, 1968 |work=The Southeast Missourian |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1893&dat=19681023&id=MM5QAAAAIBAJ&pg=4712,2143422 |via=Google News |archive-date=May 18, 2021 |access-date=October 5, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210518073105/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1893&dat=19681023&id=MM5QAAAAIBAJ&pg=4712,2143422 |url-status=live }}</ref> She was condemned by some as a "public sinner",<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Roman Catholics: The Cardinal and Jackie|url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,839610,00.html|magazine=Time|access-date=May 12, 2014|date=November 1, 1968|archive-date=May 19, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140519075105/http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,839610,00.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and became the target of [[paparazzi]] who followed her everywhere and nicknamed her "Jackie O".<ref>Tracy, p. 211.</ref>

In 1968, billionaire heiress [[Doris Duke]], with whom Jacqueline Onassis was friends, appointed her as the vice president of the [[Newport Restoration Foundation]]. Onassis publicly championed the foundation.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Colacello|first=Bob|date=March 1994|title=Doris Duke's Final Mystery|url=https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/share/8e9a9c8a-592e-413c-b470-46346122c32a|access-date=September 5, 2020|website=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]|archive-date=August 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200829052250/https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/share/8e9a9c8a-592e-413c-b470-46346122c32a|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Duke, Doris {{!}} Learning to Give|url=https://www.learningtogive.org/resources/duke-doris|access-date=September 5, 2020|website=Learning to Give|archive-date=October 31, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151031111417/http://www.learningtogive.org/resources/duke-Doris|url-status=live}}</ref>

During their marriage, Jacqueline and Aristotle Onassis inhabited six different residences: her 15-room [[1040 Fifth Avenue|Fifth Avenue apartment]] in Manhattan, her horse farm in [[Peapack-Gladstone, New Jersey]],<ref>{{cite news |last1=Barnes |first1=Valerie |title=Peapack a Refuge For Mrs. Onassis |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/11/25/archives/peapack-a-refuge-for-mrs-onassis-pattern-of-activity.html |work=The New York Times |date=November 25, 1973 |archive-date=December 1, 2021 |access-date=December 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211201125019/https://www.nytimes.com/1973/11/25/archives/peapack-a-refuge-for-mrs-onassis-pattern-of-activity.html |url-status=live }}</ref> his Avenue Foch apartment in Paris, his private island [[Skorpios]], his house in Athens, and his yacht ''[[Christina O]]''. Onassis ensured that her children continued a connection with the Kennedy family by having [[Ted Kennedy]] visit them often.<ref>Heymann, p. 90.</ref> She developed a close relationship with Ted, and from then on he was involved in her public appearances.<ref>Hersh, p. 512.</ref>

Aristotle Onassis's health deteriorated rapidly following the death of his son [[Alexander Onassis|Alexander]] in a plane crash in 1973.<ref>Spoto, p. 282</ref> He died of respiratory failure aged 69 in Paris on March 15, 1975. His financial legacy was severely limited under Greek law, which dictated how much a non-Greek surviving spouse could inherit. After two years of legal wrangling, Jacqueline Onassis eventually accepted a settlement of $26&nbsp;million from [[Christina Onassis]]—Aristotle's daughter and sole heir—and waived all other claims to the Onassis estate.<ref>Tracy, p. 232.</ref>