Sunday, October 30, 1977 The San Bernardino County Sun from San Bernardino, California · Page 78 OCR Text -- The Widow and the Mistress by Lloyd Shearer NEW YORK CITY. Iast year, on behalf of client Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, her attorneys quietly negotiated with lawyers and executors of her late husband's estate the enormous settlement of $26 million. Last month when the news of Jackie's fantastic bonanza was made public, I phoned Ingeborg Dedichen in Paris for her reaction. Madame Dedichen, 78, was Aristotle Onassis' mistress from 1934 to 1946. They lived together all over the world, mostly in Paris and New York. At one time, Onassis offered her $3 million if she would marry him. She refused "because we were too different." Madame Dedichen s reaction to my announcement of the $26 million settlement was a momentary silence followed by, "What a difference marriage makes!" Then she said ironically, "You say she is getting $26 million? Do you know what I am getting, after giving Mamico her name for Onassis 13 years of my life, after teaching him table manners, how to dress, how to behave in polite society, how to act like a gentleman? I am getting $10,000 a year. "Twice a year," she went on, "in October and March, I receive from the Onassis estate through a Swiss bank a check for $5000. And you know what else? In December last year I suddenly got a phone call from Mr. Delouglou, the head man in Onassis' Monte Carlo office and also the bank in Switzerland. "Shortly after, a man from the Paris office and a lawyer arrived here. They told me that the Onassis family had decided to make me a gift of this apartment a two-bedroom flat on the fifth floor of 37 Rue Charles Lafitte in Neuilly sur Seine. It all happened in such a hurry and rush that I didn't know what to think. After all, the Onassis Corporation has had title to this apartment for years. But the papers were in order, and I signed. No raise since 1946 "Now that I own this apartment," she explained regretfully, "I find that I have to pay many house charges, so that I am even poorer because no increase was added to my alimony. I have never had an increase in my support payments since 1946, when Mamico married Athina Livanos. "I don't resent Mamico's widow getting all that money you say $26 million? but it does seem so unfair. I am so poor, so careful about every penny. I don't buy a single thing but food. You know how expensive it is to live in Paris. I am wearing the same clothes I wore 35, 36 years ago. "I cannot understand Christina Onassis' daughter. She must really dislike Jackie to be willing to pay all that money to keep her out of the family. Of course, the Onassis family was never fond of Jackie especially Mamico's son Alexander. He was so opposed to the marriage. Friends tell me that Christina and Alexander always hoped that Mamico would remarry their mother. "Anyway," Ingeborg Dedichen concluded, "I guess it is not such a bad idea to marry a Creek. The Creeks have strict laws protecting their widows but not their mistresses. I wonder how Jackie's Jacqueline Kennedy, 39, and Aristotle Onassis, 62, at their wedding in 1968. It wasn't too long before the marriage soured. Onassis, who died in 1975, wanted her inheritance limited by their prenuptial agreement, but she got $26 million. lawyers broke Mamico's will. It was my understanding that she signed a prenuptial agreement in 1968 limiting herself to $3 million. One must have good lawyers these days." It was no secret to his friends that Aristotle Onassis was not particularly happy in his marriage to Jacqueline Kennedy. Why then did he marry her in 1968 when she was 39 and he 62? 'Social showpiece' One source says, "Ari always needed a social showpiece. That's how he used Ingse Dedichen, who was tall, beautiful and talented, the socially accepted daughter of a Norwegian shipbuilder. That's how he used Tina Livanos, his first wife, a child of 17 but nevertheless the well-bred daughter of Stavros Livanos, one of the Creek shipping magnates. That's how he used Maria Callas and Winston Churchill to compensate for his social inferiority complex, his small height, his lack of educational background." Gardner Cowles, the former publisher of Look' magazine who attended a dinner hosted by David Rockefeller for Jackie and Aristotle Onassis when they were newlyweds, recalls Onassis "as happy to stay in the background, basking in his wife's social radiance. One had the sense of a man," Cowles adds, "who felt he had accomplished something prodigious and was proud of it." Ingeborg Dedichen says that Onassis always, felt socially unacceptable in the Christina Onassis, 26, principal heir 0 to her father's fortune. Rather than 1 face a long legal battle with Jackie, she agreed to her stepmother's terms. https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/56977209/ ARISTOTLE ONASSIS INTRO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCvjgqik8Ao

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