CORONAVIRUS HELL or WELL? THE FUTURE OF MISTRESS MANIFESTO BLOGSPOT

Welcome to my long term Mistress Project here at Mistress Manifesto BlogSpot!

If you happen to be home and reading this blog for the first time, I welcome you to read the whole thing!  I guarantee you will learn a lot, perhaps achieve an understanding, and maybe you'll even question yourself and your choices.

Mistress Manifesto BlogSpot was founded with empathy for those who find themselves involved with someone they can't have as their one and only - at least not yet - though many of the people I've elected as Mistress (or Mantress) of the Month over the last decade have not wanted to be monogamous or married or involved with just one person.

A point I want to make is that there are probably thousands more Mistresses who we will never know about because their lives were far more ordinary than those who have been publicly acknowledged or speculated about and written about.

Although I don't normally plan too far in advance, because of the Coronavirus-19 pandemic and all the concerns around that, I've been working hard to research and pre-post so that you'll have interesting posts to read a bit into the future.  Should I myself be negatively effected and unable to post as I would normally, I might skip a month or post every other month.

I've been thinking how orders to quarantine and limit encounters with others is effecting our personal lives.  I'm sure this makes it much more difficult for people who are having extramarital relationships to see each other. It's been predicted that domestic violence will increase the longer people are cooped up and well, on each other's nerves because they can't go out.  Economic impact is one of my bigger worries.

Feel free to post Comments.

My best,

Missy

MY HUSBAND HAS A MISTRESS CARTOON

I thought the artistry of this testimonial cartoon was outstanding.  In this case, the wife of a married man who has an affair decides she would rather not be married.

THREE WINNERS

THE LONGINES ATHINA ONASSIS HORSE SHOW FEATURES SIGNIFICANT PRIZE MONEY

ATHINA ONASSIS HORSE SHOW OFFICIAL SITE

EXCERPT:  The Longines Athina Onassis Horse Show will include two different levels of competition for professional and amateur riders for a total of 617,000 pounds in prize money.  Six CSI5 classes will host the best ho9rse and rider combination in the world, all aiming for points toward the Longines Rankings.  Among these; the Longines Global Champions Gran PRix, with 300,000 in prize money, and the Global Champions League team competition, where top riders from various countries compete together in high stakes, multi round events around the world.


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Athina has established her own Equestrian Events - https://www.athinaonassis-horseshow.com/ and that she is friendly with Charlotte Casiraghi of Monaco: rumors that Monaco was saved financially by Ari Onassis persist.  Clearly the offspring of the men who were once in business together and who ended their business relationship aren't holding any grudges.

SHOULD YOU KEEP HIM? HERE'S SOME THINGS TO CONSIDER STARTING WITH LIFE ISN'T FAIR

FAIR IS FAIR, but life isn't, so being Kept shouldn't be different for men than for women, but biology and societal expectations, as well as the way you were brought up, still play a role in this decision. Especially if you're heterosexual.

I was thinking about a friend of a friend who I met at parties here and there, enough to get updates on his life.  Lyle (a fake name) came to California to pursue acting while a job in management at a factory his father owned always awaited him in the east.  He just wasn't interested in the family business. He was short, well built but not a muscle builder or athlete, and good enough looking.  His long term job at a famous men's clothing store was honorable enough.  He was good at sales.

He was even better at picking up women who came shopping in the store to buy gifts for the men in their lives, including friends, fathers, and brothers and current boyfriends.  Lyle didn't actually pick them up at the store but he conversated with them and joked around. One of his lines that his friends who were less able at seduction tried to use without success that seemed to work well for him was "So when are you going to ask me out?"  Then he would provide his business card.

Lyle let women call him.  Many did.  Perhaps out of curiosity.  By setting it up this way the woman was the pursuer.  It was almost as if he was announcing that he was up for a role reversal (i.e. the traditional role of male as pursuer of female, as well as the one that goes that it's the man who has to afford dating).  Can't say they weren't warned.

Lyle meanwhile honed his abilities to satisfy women sexually, or so the tale went.

Another thing Lyle honed was the ability to let a woman break up with him, even though he knew he was done, supposedly by letting her be the one who said the words, there would be less hurt feelings. So he'd hang in there, even if it took months, doing nothing especially wrong, or different, just waiting, while he flirted with others. That's still manipulative though, isn't it?

He'd moved in with a woman and played at being a sort of house-husband, for more than one woman who paid all the bills.  Last I heard, however, it seemed the women expected more eventually.  About a year was about as long as the women continued their experiment of Keeping a man who wants to work on his - well, fill in the blanks, screenplay, novel, art, music, acting.  (As a creative myself, I hate to pick on work in the arts here, but it's true to the story.)

As I've heard of many situations just like this one, just that most all of the other men who found this accommodation were married to the women who Kept them, I asked myself what was different.  The answer is that the men were full of confidence that letting a woman support them was absolutely OK, that they deserved to be supported, no matter how they were raised, while women these days seem to want financial independence, no matter how they were raised. 

Something to think about...

Missy

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BREEDING

THE RED FILE by ALEXIS MANTHEAKIS - SHOCKING DETAILS?

These days I have to wonder what it takes to shock but various reviews of the book I read seem to agree this book contains some details that those who consider themselves unshockable might find interesting - details which were part of the testimony against "Doda,"  Athina's husband, at court cases during her divorce.  Behind his wife's back he apparently lodged his mistress Nicky T. on different floors of the same hotels - an old trick - for instance.

Previously a spokesman for the Onassis-Roussel family (the family Athina Onassis was raised in, Thierry Roussel being her father), author Alexis Mantheakis details events of a human nature in locations in which equestrian events were staged, overall giving the impression that Nicky T. was kept close by as the couple traveled.

ANGELYNE THE BILLBOARD QUEEN OF LOS ANGELES GETS HER OWN SERIES - SORT OF

Notes: A while back, in October 2010, I elected Hollywood icon Angelyn as our feature.  Subtitled: Is this Billboard Queen a Mistress or a Savvy Business Woman? I said I had met Angelyn. Since Angelyn seems to have been driving a pink Corvette around Los Angeles and making pit stops at vintage clothing stores and selling t-shirts out of the back of the vehicle for years, it's not that unusual to have a sighting of her or to cross paths with her. I actually spoke with her ever so briefly. 

ANGELYN has a series based on a Hollywood Reporter expose about her.  It's fictive - sort of - Angelyn herself is an Executive Producer.  Confusing the truth is something she likes to do though she has consistently slipped into her alter ego to the point where she lives and breaths her creation.  

Here's a link to the Hollywood Reporter article by Gary Baum:  HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 2017: ANGELYNE's REAL IDENTITY 

EXCERPT about the writer's source of information:

The man, who claimed to work in an undefined role for the federal government, said he was a hobbyist genealogist, occasionally taking on paid assignments in the field as an amusing side gig.  A few years earlier, he'd decided it'd be fun to set himself the challenge of cracking Angelyne's case.  "And I did," he explained.

Later at the 101 Coffee Shop in Hollywood, the genealogist - who looks like Michael Kelly's contained political operative Doug Stamper from House of Cards - unfurled an elaborate story of Angelyne's past, based on material he contended he'd enterprisingly pulled and synthesized from a global network of public databases.  He laid down a folded printout of a row of yearbook photos.

Two years later, more or less, here's the Hollywood Reporter on the Series:
HOLLYWOOD REPORTER : ANGELYNE DRAMA BASED ON HOLLYWOOD REPORTER STORY by Leslie Goldberg  who says Angelyne is actually Renee Goldberg (no relation.)

EXCERPT:  Angelyne, 67, is the L.A.- raised daughter of Holocaust survivors, a Jew who found refuge in what Baum described as "Shiksa drag."  She was born in Poland in 1950 to parents who were among the 500 to survive out of a town of 13,000.  Her parents were sent to concentration camps before escaping to America and settling in L.A. Fairfax District.  After Angelyn's mother died in 1965, her father remarried another Holocaust survivor and the family moved to Panorama City, where she attended high school.  While her paper trail ends there, Angelyne soon reinvented herself as a blonde bombshell, famous simply for being famous...

NIKI T. TESTIFIES TO HER RELATIONSHIP WITH DODA - DIDN'T KNOW WHO HE WAS

NEOSKOSMOS : SPICY DETAILS OF ATHINA ONASSIS DIVORCE

Excerpt: 'I met him when I was working as a call-girl.  I had no idea who he was.  I'd heard of the Onassis family, but nothing about Doda." Niki appears to have told Mantheakis, claiming it took her five years to realise who she was really sharing her bed with.  ...  "It was in 2011, when while watching horse races on TV that I recognized Doda among other jumpers.  I told him I'd found out who he really was but assured him this would not change anything between us.  Then we started travelling together. I followed him to Rio to attend the Athina Onassis Horse Show.  He slowly started entrusting me with his family secrets, for example, the reasons why Athina had stopped talking to her father Thierry Roussel"

... go the link to read it all

STEPMOM GABY PROVIDED A STABLE UPBRINGING FOR ATHINA

Marianne Gaby Landhage - called "Gaby" raised Athina after her mother, Christina Onassis' death. when Athina was three, along with children she had with Athina's father Thierry Roussel.  In this circa 2005 article, which has much about Athina's fight for control of her fortune and the influence of her husband, there's information on her upbringing...  Athina turned 26 in 2006.

VANITY FAIR (2005) : THE LAST ONASSIS by NICHOLAS GAGE

EXCERPT:  Throughout her childhood, Athina was on a firm schedule and a small allowance, enrolled at local public schools, and indulged only by being allowed to pursue her passion for horses...   Gaby, who comes from a middle-class Swedish family, got Athina interested in animals and the environment.  Even at the height of Athina's legal battle with her father, she spoke regularly with Gaby on the phone. ...  It's generally believed that Athina had a much more stable life with Gaby than she would have had with her mother.  Christina spoiled the child hopelessly, giving her dolls dressed in Dior couture, a private zoo, and when she could sing "Baa Baa Black Sheep, a flock of sheep and a shepherd to tend them.  She would shower her with gifts and then disappear on another jet0set truip, in search of a man who would love her for herself and not her money. ...  Gaby;'s firm, loving influence has given Athina a solid foundation, her real mother's life has served as a cautionary tale. ...

JUMPING

WHY IS IT ASSUMED THAT ATHINA IS "LONELY"?

TOWN and COUNTRY MAG : INSIDE THE LONELY WORLD OF ATHINA ONASSIS (2016) by Joan Paulson Gage and Nicholas Gage

This article has several good photos of the Roussel family that included Athina Onassis and her half siblings. and her step mother, Gaby (Marianne Gaby Landhage).

According to the article, Athina's new husband, Alvaro de Miranda already had a girlfriend and a child when they met. That girlfriend eventually died, leaving this child and a child of hers with a different father, to be raised by Athina and "Doda," as he's nicknamed. There's a description of their beautiful wedding conducted in Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic rites.  I found it interesting that Athina could have acted as a step-mother to her husband's two children, and I found no confirmation of this or what happened with these children after the divorce.

Why is it assumed that Athina Onassis is "lonely" when she is independent and busy, a determined equestrian with a full life.

GROOMED

NICKY T. : THE OBSCURE BELGIAN ESCORT and MISTRESS WHO BROKE ATHINA ONASSIS ELEVEN YEAR MARRIAGE and "GABY" LANDHAGE the MISTRESS WHO MARRIED ATHINA'S FATHER and RAISED HER

This month, we have the story of two Mistresses, first "Nicky T." who broke the marriage of heiress Athina Onassis.  Nicky T. is one of our most elusive Mistresses of the Month.  So little is known of Nicky T., who remains in the shadows, that we have to work around her to get the story.

Secondly, though more important in the life of Athina Onassis, is Marianne "Gaby" Landhage, who was a beautiful model back in the 80's.  She became Athina's step-mother and raised her along with her father after Athina's mother, Christina, died in 1988 when Athina was three. Gaby was involved with Athina's father, Thierry Roussel, before, during, and after his marriage to her mother Christina Onassis. Gaby went from being girlfriend to Mistress to girlfriend to wife.  She had two children with Thierry, who was and is a businessman, and came from wealth himself, though not the wealth of Onassis, while he was married to Christina.  The couple eventually had a third child.

While it seems Christina Onassis was aware she was not the only woman in Thierry's life, and it would be easy to think that Thierry was a Kept Man in his years with Christina, life just isn't so simple.  Had he not married Christina, it would be easier to think of him as having been Kept. Some infer he was only into it for the money and not much to Christina besides a sperm donor.  Roussel was no pauper and though his business decisions have not always proved successful and he may have unfairly been suspected of taking advantage of his daughter's money, he works in International Finance. What I haven't encountered in the reportage I've read is the possibility that this three way relationship was agreed to with everyone involved. That he loved both women. That the women accepted that they were sharing a man and both loved him.

That Athina was raised with her half siblings by Gaby and Thierry after her mother died in 1988 seems only right.  Her father had begun divorce proceedings before Athina was a year old. He married Gaby in 1990.

Perhaps what is true is that as Athina, the shy, innocent, and quiet girl who believed in love, decided that she would never accept what her mother had.

And so, a bit of a back story on Athina and her mom, Christina.

Like many heiresses of note, the problem of not knowing if she was ever loved plagued the emotionally unstable Christina Onassis, heiress to the Greek shipping fortune of her father, Aristotle Onassis.  (Aristotle has featured here at Mistress Manifesto BlogSpot in posts about the opera singer Maria Callas who was his Mistress, as well as Jackie Kennedy Onassis, whom he married.)  Christina, who married four times, was married to Athina's father, Thierry Roussel at the time Athina was born and this was her last marriage. 

When Christina died, only 37 years old, perhaps of heart failure -  pulmonary edema - there was  speculation that she actually died of a broken heart or that she was actually a suicide or she died of a drug overdose or/and that her dieting may have weakened her. It goes that as one of the riches women in the world her people would keep the truth from the world.

Athina, the beautiful child, has been a magazine cover girl many times in her life. When she was a child she appeared on the cover of People magazine as the richest little girl in the world.  At about 13 she again appeared, this time in the middle of a battle between her father's ideas about her fortune and that of her mother's Greek money men. How much money she had or has is also speculative to this day. Her mother was an heir to her father, the Greek shipping millionaire and Athina inherited 55%.  Investments and expenditures, properties and countries, can only be guessed at, but she recently sold her mother's jewelry and is said to not be much interested in clothing or jewelry, just horses.

Despite the tragedies that befell her mother and family of origin, Athina Onassis seemed to have a decent and normal childhood but there were often accusations that her father wanted more money out of the Onassis estate than needed for his own purposes. The question of her father's parental responsibility and function when it comes to Athina's money has been controversial from the beginning.  Also, Athina was not raised as her mother wished, to be connected to her Greek heritage. For instance, she's eloquent in French and English but didn't learn Greek. At age 14 she proved to have a mind of her own when she went to court over her money.  Eventually she took the control away from her father.

Athina left home at 18, did not go to college, but, like many wealthy heiresses, pursued an equestrian lifestyle.  In 2005 she married a man about twelve years older than she,  Brazilian Alvaro de Miranda Neto, a man who had rode in the Olympics as a show jumper and was part of the sporting life she adores.  It was reported that her father and step-mother did not attend, suggesting that this was the moment when Athina had fully declared her independence from her childhood. The couple first lived in luxury in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Athina has been considered to be introverted since she was a girl, though perhaps she is simply more reserved than gregarious. Therefore, that she took quick and definitive action to start a divorce upon learning of her husband's infidelity might seem too decisive and even shocking to some.  It was reported that her security people had told her about the affair.  Maybe so.  There is another story, though, and it's called The Red File.

The Red File is where Nicky T, the obscure Belgian escort who broke the marriage between Alvaro and Athina, comes in. The Red File apparently contained excellent documentation that Athina's husband had been in a "parallel" relationship for eight - eight and a half years during the eleven year marriage.  Nicky T. was a highly paid escort.  Of course that doesn't mean what they had together wasn't special.  Reportedly Nick T. did not stop escorting just because they had something special.

Of interest to me is that it seems Athina's ex husband has remarried and that there is a professional looking wedding video on YouTube testifying to the fact.  How much money he did get for his marriage effort with Athina is not publicized,  but the prenup was to give him about one million for each year of marriage.  Though I know horses and equestrian events are most often the sport of the rich, how much money he brought into the marriage is also seemingly unknown. The divorce proceedings occurred in Antwerp, Belgium, where Onassis had been living. Miranda wanted more than the prenup and even wanted alimony, but whatever happened, in November 2017 the marriage ended.

 

Nicky T. is said to have been, as a sex worker, involved with friends of his. My guess is that by having this regular clientele she was able to stay close to the scene and in the relationship.  It was Nicky T. herself who provided, after about 3 years time from first contact with someone who knew well Athina, the documentation of the adultery which greatly influenced the betrayed Athena and the court, which awarded him less money than he wanted.  

Who is the author of the book also called The Red File, Alexis Mantheakis?  He has been an advisor to the Onassis fortune and for many years - about 20 - and in the trenches, so to speak, with Athina. He wrote a previous book about Athina titled Athina Onassis : In the Eye of the Storm.  Mantheakis said that he had been approached by the Belgium woman, called Nicky T. who was working as an escort, and she offered him a file with documents, including hotel and airline bills to prove she had been in a relationship with Athina's husband, Alvaro de Miranda.

This book is a primary reference for this month's posts, as well numerous news articles on the Internet that have been read and YouTube videos watched.  Some of these are from Greek or other European language sources that had to be read using translators. 

Over the years I've read a number of books in English that include the Onassis story and here at Mistress Manifesto, Onassis' Mistress and Renowned Opera Singer Maria Callas was Mistress of the Month in August 2010 and Jackie Kennedy Onassis - an Honorary Mistress - December 2014.  The early on 2010 posts are not as researched and referenced as posts have been in more recent years. I was just getting into my subject and so I believe Maria Callas may deserve another month in the future.


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