A new book published recently makes the controversial claim that the Greek tycoon Aristotle Onassis was bisexual and treated his wife Jackie Kennedy Onassis “as a prostitute.”
The book Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed by Maureen Callahan, explores the claims that Onassis was bisexual.
The book claims Onassis was bisexual
The book refers to rumors that after his son Alexander died in a plane crash in 1973, Aristotle Onassis consoled himself by sleeping with young Italians, then “beating them up”.
It claims that Aristotle Onassis also spoke about a same-sex relationship he had when he was young with an older Turkish lieutenant that secured his father’s freedom, as well as some of “his family’s lost holdings in Smyrna”.
The new book also explores claims that Aristotle Onassis treated Jackie like a “prostitute,” and that he would make her have sex with him in places that were at least partially public: on his plane behind a curtain, in a boat tethered to his yacht, and in his bedroom with the door open.
Onassis was famously the second husband of Jacqueline “Jackie” Lee Kennedy Onassis, who was married to US President John F. Kennedy. Jackie married Aristotle Onassis in 1968, five years after JFK was assassinated.
The widowed former first lady was 39 when she announced her engagement to Onassis, who was 62. The Greek shipping magnate was one of the richest men in the world at the time, and her relationship with the famed womanizer scandalized the world. She even condemned by some as a “public sinner”. Aristotle Onassis died in 1975; Jackie inherited $25 million from his estate.
Following his death Jackie Onassis worked as a book editor. She passed away from cancer in her Manhattan apartment in 1994 aged 64, with her children by her side.
Was JFK also a bisexual too?
The book also delves into Jackie’s other husband, JFK, who was also rumored to be bisexual.
Despite his Catholic upbringing, Kennedy was inseparable from his friend Kirk LeMoyne ‘Lem’ Billings, after the pair first met in prep school. Though their relationship was considered platonic at the time author Jerry Oppenheimer claims the pair had “a friendship that included oral sex, with Jack always on the receiving end”.
President John F. Kennedy was terrible in bed and never lasted more than three minutes, a new book claims.
A blockbuster biography by DailyMail.com columnist Maureen Callahan reveals how, despite JFK’s insatiable libido and endless appetite for extramarital affairs, the women he slept with were left unsatisfied.
‘He just goes too fast and falls asleep,’ JFK’s own wife Jackie confided to a friend. Jackie feared that it was ‘her fault’ but ‘this was the complaint of every woman who’d had sex with Jack Kennedy’, Callahan reveals
There was ‘no kissing, no build-up… he never lasted longer than three minutes’, Callahan writes, adding that JFK ‘didn’t even seem to enjoy sex. It was like a compulsion; there was never anything personal about it.’
‘Ask Not’ also reveals how JFK held ‘pool parties’ at the White House almost daily, inviting young female staffers to join him.
In 1962, he struck up an affair with 19-year-old White House secretarial intern Mimi Beardsley, whose virginity he took in Jackie’s bed.
Their affair lasted for 18 months until he was assassinated in November 1963.
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