Maria Callas's Love Affair With Onassis Was Even MORE Disturbing Than You Think

On June 17, 1959, Aristotle Onassis bought up a block of the best seats at Covent Garden to watch Maria Callas sing Medea. Five weeks later she and her husband boarded his 325-foot yacht with his wife and Winston Churchill, and by the end of a three-week cruise both marriages were over. Italy had no divorce, so she stayed legally married to the man who held her money until 1971, while Onassis, worth about $300 million, was free within a year. Her last opera came on July 5, 1965, when she was 41, and in 1966 she gave up her American citizenship. On October 20, 1968, he married Jacqueline Kennedy, and by her own reported words he never told her. Subscribe to the channel: @disposableglamour In this video, we talk about what really happened inside the affair of Maria Callas and Aristotle Onassis, including the Venice party where they met, the Dorchester reception and the society circus at Covent Garden, the 1959 cruise on the Christina and the confession after the Istanbul Hilton, the photographer outside the Montemerlo and the goodbye at Bresso airport, the separation from Giovanni Battista Meneghini and the court in Brescia, the 1954 will, the disputed child of 1960 and every version of what happened to it, the career that emptied out between 1960 and 1965, Lee Radziwill and the cruise Callas was kept off, the citizenship she renounced, the 1966 letters and the friend's diary, the summer she was told to leave the yacht, the whistling under her window, the deathbed accounts, and her death in Paris in 1977. Subscribe for the women the society pages photographed and the record they left out. Tell me where you're watching from and whether you were first told the Callas and Onassis story as a romance. Share this on Facebook, Reddit or with the friend who still plays her Tosca, because you're the reason this channel keeps going. Chapters: 00:00 Opening 01:06 The Night He Bought The Stalls. 07:22 A Husband Who Kept The Money. 13:40 Two Marriages Board One Yacht. 20:38 The Confession After Istanbul. 27:30 Photographed Leaving The Montemerlo. 42:30 The Child Nobody Can Agree On. 50:47 The Calendar That Emptied Out. 59:41 Nineteen Sixty Six, In Her Own Letters. 1:07:31 Asked To Leave The Yacht. 1:16:01 Whistling Under Her Window. 1:24:59 The Woman Who Sang Medea Twice. Sources: Music: Love & Money, TIME (September 1959) Music: Love & Money The first Milan photograph of Callas and Onassis, 3 September 1959, Publifoto archive, Gallerie d'Italia Original caption by Publifoto Agency on the back of the print: "One of the shots of the "Callas-Onassis affair". The public escapes of the couple that was on everyone's lips began on Saturday 29 August at the "Sea Club" in Monte Carlo. But the first photograph was taken on Thursday 3 September 1959 in Milan. Onassis arrived that afternoon from Venice in his personal plane. The two entered a Milanese night-club [the Montemerlo (Ed.)] at 10 p.m. They dined, danced, drank. They left five hours later and finally smiled at the photographer Nicola Giordano of Publifoto who was waiting for them. A short trip from the night club to the hotel, where the shipowner was staying, for a last "drink". The next day, Friday 4 September, the photographer was still waiting outside the hotel: and at 3.45 p.m. the couple came out and got into the car. Also on Friday. After a stop at the singer's house, here we are at Bresso airport. Maria Meneghini Callas says goodbye to the shipowner who is leaving for Venice in his seaplane. The few people present notice that the lady "is very emotional"." - Giordano, Nicola, Publifoto | Gallerie d'Italia Turin Maria Callas at the Civil Court of Brescia, 14 November 1959, Publifoto archive, Gallerie d'Italia Maria Callas at the Civil Court of Brescia where she went for the legal separation case between her and her husband Giovanni Battista Meneghini; to her left is Giovanna Lomazzi - Pajola, Danilo, Giordano, Nicola, Publifoto | Gallerie d'Italia Turin The Secret Son of Maria Callas and Aristotle Onassis: Truth and Lies, To Vima The Secret Son of Maria Callas and Aristotle Onassis: Truth and Lies - tovima.com Maria Callas as told by her little sister, Giovanna Lomazzi, Gramilano Maria Callas as told by her 'little sister', Giovanna Lomazzi [interview] Callas in London: Medea 1959, Music Preserved Callas in London: ‘Medea’ 1959 Sir Winston in the Sun, British Movietone News, 13 August 1959, Learning on Screen Oops - Learning On Screen #DisposableGlamour #MariaCallas #AristotleOnassis #Callas #Onassis #Meneghini #TinaOnassis #WinstonChurchill #ChristinaO #CoventGarden #Medea #LaScala #Milan #MonteCarlo #Skorpios #JackieKennedy #LeeRadziwill #Opera #Soprano #1950s #1960s #WomensHistory #Documentary #History