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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsGot $32m? Jackie O's 'Love Boat' for sale
If this yacht could talk, one can only imagine the stories it would tell about one of the most high-profile romances of the 20th century.
The stately superyacht Christina O isn't just a gorgeous 99-meter vessel. It's the palatial setting where billionaire shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis married Jackie Kennedy, the former wife of U.S. President John F Kennedy.
Now the luxury liner which played host to the crème de la crème of 1950s high society -- including Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and John Wayne -- has gone on sale for a whopping $32 million.
full: http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/04/business/got-32m-jackie-os-love-boat/index.html
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Got $32m? Jackie O's 'Love Boat' for sale (Original Post)
alp227
Jul 2013
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I don't think it would fit in my back yard, but if it did I'd slap a Chevy emblem on it and...
EdwardSmith74
Jul 2013
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In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)1. Loved living on boats. But $32 million is way outta my ballpark.
It would be nice tho.
Callmecrazy
(3,065 posts)2. I recently saw Arriana Huffington's yacht...
At a dock here in Fort Lauderdale.
Makes that boat look like a dinghy.
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)3. Pier 66 gets a lot of the big ones.
u4ic
(17,101 posts)4. We had this one in our city's harbour for over a month
EdwardSmith74
(282 posts)5. I don't think it would fit in my back yard, but if it did I'd slap a Chevy emblem on it and...
... put it up on blocks.
olddots
(10,237 posts)6. Oy such a deal
the upkeep on a ship that size is probably 2 million a year if you plan on using it .A lot of people don't know that Jackie and I were an item for a while during the 60s and we used to ................................ yeah sure