Jackie Kennedy and the billion dollar nude: 50 years since the first case of ‘revenge porn’
In 1973, ‘Screw’ magazine published unauthorized photographs of the former first lady of the United States sunbathing naked on the Greek island of Skorpios. The man who leaked the images was her own husband, the Greek magnate Aristotle Onassis
“Sometimes I have to undress to put on my bathing suit. My wife does the same thing,” commented an unperturbed Aristotle Onassis when journalists showed him a copy of the Italian magazine Playmen in December 1972. In that issue, his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, widow of President John F. Kennedy, appeared completely naked during her summer vacation on the private island of Skorpios (Greece). The Greek tycoon did not seem surprised or outraged by the unauthorized images of Jackie, then 43, as God had brought her into the world: sunbathing bikini-less, carefree, and without losing her graceful demeanor as a former student of Miss Porter’s School in Connecticut.
