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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
The Hollywood actress, 49, looked every inch the leading lady as she arrived at the Hotel Excelsior by boat for the Venice Film Festival on Thursday.
Callas has been the subject of almost 30 biographies, but Spence has been able to shed revealing new light on the operatic superstar after obtaining access to boxes of her letters that have been sitting unexamined in an archive at Stanford University, California. Their relationship wasn’t consummated, says Spence, until the summer of 1958 when Callas and Meneghini joined Sir Winston Churchill and his family for a fateful three-week cruise on the lavish Onassis yacht, Christina, hosted by the tycoon and his beautiful wife Tina. The biographer tracked down a neurologist who was treating her before her death and who revealed that Callas had long suffered from dermatomyositis, an inflammatory disease that affected the central nervous system and caused progressive muscle weakness.
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