S25E5: Aristotle Onassis and His Lovely Ladies, Part Five | Introducing Maria Callas

In this installment of the Trashy Onassis series, we meet Maria Callas. The opera diva had a childhood filled with awful, and then a husband who wasn’t much better. By the time Maria and Aristotle begin their affair in 1959, she was a global opera superstar, and he was, as ever, a man in the business of collecting famous women. We’ll see whether it was a match made in heaven (spoilers: it wasn’t) next week!

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Alicia’s Receipts

Maria Callas: The Woman Behind the Legend, by Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington (Amazon)

Cast a Diva: The Hidden Life of Maria Callas, by Lyndsy Spence (Amazon)

Greek Fire: The Story of Maria Callas and Aristotle Onassis, by Nicholas Gage (Amazon)

The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters: The Tragic and Glamorous Lives of Jackie and Lee, by Nancy Schoenberger and Sam Kashner (Amazon)

Jackie, Janet & Lee: The Secret Lives of Janet Auchincloss and Her Daughters Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill, by J. Randy Taraborrelli (Amazon)

Ari: The Life and Times of Aristotle Onassis, by Peter Evans (Amazon)

All the Pain that Money Can Buy: The Life of Christina Onassis, by William Wright (Amazon)

Nemesis: Aristotle Onassis, Jackie O, and the Love Triangle That Brought Down the Kennedys, by Peter Evans (Amazon)

Heiress: The Story of Christina Onassis, by Nigel Dempster (Amazon)

The Onassis Women: An Eyewitness Account, by Kiki Feroudi Moutsatsos (Amazon)