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TIL that one of Jacqueline Lee Bouvier‘s famous quotes is “The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship” and after her husband John F Kennedy was assassinated she married Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis who is valued at $2.3 billion today

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