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TIL that two billionaires each married the same woman. Aristotle Onassis and Stavros Niarchos were rival Greek shipping tycoons who married a total of seven times. Onassis first married Athina Livanos, then Jacqueline Kennedy (JFK's widow); Athina later became one of Niarchos's five wives.

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