These nude images of Jackie Kennedy Onassis were taken on a Greek beach in after her own husband tipped off photographers with her exact location, a new book has claimed. The images, which were splashed across magazines and newspapers worldwide, were taken as the couple endured a turbulent marriage fraught with infidelity, absences and family scorn. It has emerged that the photographers were tipped off by her own husband, Aristotle Onassis. Plot: Tired of Jackie suing the media for invasion of privacy, her husband gave ten photographers detailed maps and time plans of when she would be on the beach in Skorpios, Greece. Jackie had married Ari in after he wooed her with gifts and declarations of love - even though her family and friends were never convinced he was the right match for her. Throughout their relationship, Ari pursued his not-so-secret affair with opera singer Maria Callas - while allegedly using his press contacts to publicly humiliate Jackie for stepping out of line. Turbulent: He wooed the former First Lady into marriage in pictured but it was rocky from the start. Published: The shots were splashed across magazines, earning Jackie the moniker 'Billion Dollar Bush'. Insult: Jackie did not know her own husband was behind the photos and demanded he sue the magazines. The nude shots earned Jackie the moniker 'Billion Dollar Bush', and afforded her children years of cruel bullying.
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The pictures, which shocked the world when they were published, showed the glamorous former Mrs Kennedy sunbathing nude and practising yoga, on the private island paradise of Skorpios, which belonged to her new husband, the Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis. Mrs Onassis, who was one of the world's most photographed women at the time, was able to escape the glare of publicity on the secluded island. But Garritano, who still runs a photo agency in Rome revealed how in the summer of he managed to gain access to Skorpios by befriending a local and then disguising himself as a gardener. After hearing a rumour that Mrs Onassis sunbathed nude on one of the beaches, he took a boat out and moored it near some undergrowth where he was able to remain hidden. She knew she'd been photographed before on Scorpios so why would she display herself? Then suddenly she appeared and wandered around the patio area. I concentrated on just taking the pictures, not composing them. It was a matter of moments, not even minutes," he said. They eventually appeared in the Italian magazine Playmen in sparking a backlash in the United States. But Aristotle was unfazed by the controversy simply stating: "Sometimes I take my clothes off to put on a bathing suit.
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Andersen claims that Onassis set up Jackie to be photographed in the nude by the paparazzi to embarrass her. President John K. According to excerpts of the book that have been released by foreign media, the Greek tycoon repeatedly cheated on Jackie O. After the first cracks appeared in their marriage, fights started getting more frequent between the spouses. He writes the following:. Fed up with hearing Jackie complain about the press and no longer willing to finance her costly invasion-of-privacy lawsuits, Ari hatched a plan to embarrass Jackie to such an extent that there would be nothing more that the press could do to hurt her. In November , ten photographers put on wetsuits and slipped into the waters off Skorpios. With detailed maps of the island, the dates, times, and places where Jackie was expected to be — all provided by Ari — they snapped scores of color photos of Jackie sunbathing and strolling around.
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