Word: onassisism
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But maybe Maria was ready to quit. She had married Giovanni Meneghini, a Veronese businessman 28 years her senior, who adored her but soon bored her. Walter Legge, then head of EMI records, liked to tell a story about a late night conversation with them: "Wooler undervests visible beneath their...
Though he cared nothing for opera, Onassis immediately basked in Maria's artistic fame. She said goodbye to Meneghini and sailed away on Onassis' yacht Christina to a life of luxury and narcissism. She got her TMWL (To Maria With Love) bracelet-just as Onassis' first wife...
She became pregnant and wanted the child, but Onassis insisted on an abortion. It was a turning point. Sometimes the Christina sailed without her. Once, in 1963, Jackie and her sister Lee Radziwill cruised instead. The future could be read in what those ladies made off with: Lee a string...
The Kennedy-Onassis marriage was not a success. He continued to see Maria and, reports Biographer Arianna Stassinopoulos, just before he died in 1975, he hired Roy Conn to start divorce proceedings against Jackie. But the diva's happiness was over. An affair with Tenor Giuseppe di Stefano was...
Hugh Jacobsen, architect, on the publicity surrounding his latest project, a spacious home on Martha's Vineyard for Jackie Onassis: "Even the plumber has held press conferences to display his bathroom plans."