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Maria Callas: Fact vs. fiction in Netflix’s movie starring Angelina Jolie as the opera diva.
1 week, 4 days ago

Maria Callas: Fact vs. fiction in Netflix’s movie starring Angelina Jolie as the opera diva.

Slate  

Chilean director Pablo Larraín has carved out a niche for himself creating portraits of iconic women on the edge of a nervous breakdown at significant moments in their lives. While we can’t claim to know what was going through Callas’ mind as she neared the end, we can nevertheless examine how much the external world referenced in Maria resembles the …

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Angelina Jolie brings the glamour in a brown chiffon dress as she arrives for the Venice Film Festival ahead of her Maria premiere
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Angelina Jolie brings the glamour in a brown chiffon dress as she arrives for the Venice Film Festival ahead of her Maria premiere

Daily Mail  

Her fans called her La Divina, the divine, and Maria Callas seemed to think so, too. She took it willingly, but with Callas effectively sedated, Onassis — whose ‘depraved’ sexual requests shocked even the notorious Paris brothel keeper Madame Claude — was able to sexually abuse the singer in demeaning ways, says her biographer, she wouldn’t have permitted if she …

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The harrowing truth behind Angelina Jolie's 'divine' new role: Inside the tragic life of opera star Maria Callas - who was drugged and abused by Aristotle Onassis before being DUMPED for Jackie Kenned
1 year, 2 months ago

The harrowing truth behind Angelina Jolie's 'divine' new role: Inside the tragic life of opera star Maria Callas - who was drugged and abused by Aristotle Onassis before being DUMPED for Jackie Kenned

Daily Mail  

The tragic life of opera singer Maria Callas is set to be laid bare in a new biopic with Angelina Jolie at the helm in what is set to be an incredibly agonizing look at the harrowing trauma that lurked beneath the musician's glamorous public image. Maria Callas's glittering life was marred by suffering and betrayal - she was swindled …

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Angelina Jolie looks unrecognisable in large spectacles as she transforms into iconic opera singer Maria Callas in first look at biopic
1 year, 2 months ago

Angelina Jolie looks unrecognisable in large spectacles as she transforms into iconic opera singer Maria Callas in first look at biopic

Daily Mail  

Her fans called her La Divina, the divine, and Maria Callas seemed to think so, too. She took it willingly, but with Callas effectively sedated, Onassis — whose ‘depraved’ sexual requests shocked even the notorious Paris brothel keeper Madame Claude — was able to sexually abuse the singer in demeaning ways, says her biographer, she wouldn’t have permitted if she …

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Angelina Jolie lands the role of a lifetime as she is cast as opera singer Maria Callas
2 years, 2 months ago

Angelina Jolie lands the role of a lifetime as she is cast as opera singer Maria Callas

Daily Mail  

Her fans called her La Divina, the divine, and Maria Callas seemed to think so, too. She took it willingly, but with Callas effectively sedated, Onassis — whose ‘depraved’ sexual requests shocked even the notorious Paris brothel keeper Madame Claude — was able to sexually abuse the singer in demeaning ways, says her biographer, she wouldn’t have permitted if she …

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Maria Callas 'drugged by lover Aristotle Onassis, blackmailed by mother and swindled by husband'
3 years, 8 months ago

Maria Callas 'drugged by lover Aristotle Onassis, blackmailed by mother and swindled by husband'

Daily Mail  

Venerated soprano Maria Callas played her role in many a tragedy, but her life off stage was no less dramatic or colourful with accusations that she was drugged by her lover Aristotle Onassis for sex, unpublished letters have revealed. The startling revelations, which also include the singer being blackmailed by her mother and swindled by her husband, appear in Spence's …

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