Elsa Maxwell (Q451096)

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American gossip columnist, author, songwriter, and hostess (1883–1963)
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    Elsa Maxwell
    American gossip columnist, author, songwriter, and hostess (1883–1963)

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      Obsession was this lesbian’s MO, but Callas had a reason for stoking the fires. As our biographer relates it, getting Maxwell on board was a key to the Callas PR battle — and, indeed, Maxwell gave Callas bad notices in her column till the great Greek diva struck a friendship, “scripted,” he writes, “like the plot of a verismo opera.” (English)
      In addition, she had no money of her own and was a lesbian in a less-accepting age. When she fell head-over-heels for temperamental opera star Maria Callas, the diva did not reciprocat (English)
      Elsa Maxwell
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      Elsa Maxwell (24 May 1881 - 1 Nov 1963)
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