Film to claim Onassis financed RFK assassination



Aristotle Onassis



Fernando Meirelles, the director of The Constant Gardener among other works, is planning a film biography of Aristotle Onassis that will not concentrate on his relationship with Jackie Kennedy, the widow of President John K. Kennedy, but on the Greek shipping magnate’s contentious dealings with the President’s brother.

The film, titled simply Onassis, will be adapted from a book written by Peter Evans and, according to this story, “As attorney general, Bobby had investigated Onassis’s sketchy international business practices and banned him from trading with the U.S., and Evans wrote that their rivalry over control of and access to Jackie culminated in Onassis’s alleged financing of the assassination of the presidential hopeful.”