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Has the trophy wife faded into history?

By Tina Cassidy

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  May 10, 2012

When Jacqueline Kennedy married shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis in 1968 on his private Aegean island Skorpios, tongues wagged from Greece to Greenwich. The story line was simple: She married him for money, and he married her for effect. She was, after all, arguably the most famous and beautiful woman in the world, and he was one of the richest. Now, more than 40 years later, the idea of the so-called “trophy wife” is fading into history.

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