The Secret Behind Jackie Onassis Nude Photos

40 years after the pictures showing President Kennedy‘s widow Jackie Onassis sunbathing naked the paparazzo who took them is finally revealing how he got the photos.

There has always been a huge mystery as to how Settimio Garritano, the Italian paparazzo, managed to get the photographs of Jackie sunbathing on a private Greek island. Jackie’s second husband Aristotle Onassis, a Greek shipping mogul, owned the private island of Skorpios so the former First Lady was free to do what ever she wanted.

The paparazzo heard rumors that she sunbathed naked on the beaches so he says that he managed to befriend one of the locals on the island and he then disguised himself as a gardener, when he knew that she was off sunbathing he took a boat out and hid himself which is when he seen her naked, speaking about it he says…

“It didn’t seem possible. She knew she’d been photographed before on Scorpios so why would she display herself? Then suddenly she appeared and wandered around the patio area. I concentrated on just taking the pictures, not composing them. It was a matter of moments, not even minutes.”

After taking the pictures he says that most editors refused to publish the photos until 1972 when Italian magazine Playmen put them in their magazine, they eventually published in the United States three years later in 1985 when Hustler put them in.

Aristotle Onassis at the time said that he didn’t care about the photographs and both he and Jackie Onassis take their clothes off to put on a bathing suit. Settimio Garritano is apparently looking to auction off the legendary images.

source: Secret of Jackie Onassis nude paparazzi pictures revealed [Telegraph]

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