Skorpios, the Ionian Sea island where Aristotle Onassis married Jackie Kennedy, reportedly sold for £100 million
The idyllic Greek island where Aristotle Onassis married Jackie Kennedy has reportedly been sold for £100 million.
The shipping magnate's granddaughter, 28-year-old Athina Onassis Roussel, has agreed to sell the island of Skorpios, a jewel in the Ionian Sea, according to Greek media.
The identity of the Russian businessman who has supposedly bought the island has not been disclosed. Nor has there been confirmation of its actual sale.
Aristotle is buried there, as is his daughter, Christina and his son, Alexander.Contracts for the purchase of the island are being drawn up by law firms in Athens and Geneva, according to the Greek reports.
The forested island, off the western coast of Greece, was bought by Aristotle Onassis in 1962 for around 3.5 million drachmas, the equivalent of about £10,000, The Telegraph reports.
Six years later it hosted his wedding to Jacqueline Kennedy, the widow of the late President John F Kennedy.
On the 1975 death of the Greek shipping tycoon, Skorpios passed to his daughter Christina, who died of a heart attack aged 37 in 1988, and then to Athina.
Skorpios is heavily wooded with trees that Aristotle Onassis planted.
He also shipped in sand from a nearby island to create an artificial beach. The beach is reportedly available under Greek law for public access including on privately owned islands.
It features in the list of private islands compiled by the Private Islands magazine.
A 2009 British newspaper report claimed without any confirmation that the island had been put up for sale and subsequent reports wrongly suggested Giorgio Armani had bought it.
