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| Maria Callas with French President René Coty |
Maria Callas makes a sensational début in Paris in a gala concert at the Paris Opéra; celebrities in the audience include Onassis, who begins to take a closer interest in Callas.
1959
By this time Callas has fewer professional engagements. She and Meneghini are invited for a cruise in July on Onassis’s yacht, the Christina, with several other guests including the Churchills; by the end of the cruise Callas and Onassis are lovers and the Meneghini marriage is over.
1960-63
Callas curtails her stage appearances and devotes herself to the international high life with Onassis; by 1962 she is performing only at a few concerts. It has been alleged that in March 1960 Callas gave birth to a son by Onassis, but the child died the same day.
A life after the tragic loss of her son, Maria Callas Biography: Return and Triumphs
