Maria Callas Love Letters Fail to Sell at Milan Auction
Published December 13th, 2007
Maria Callas’s love letters to Giovanni Battista Meneghini, her former husband and mentor, failed to sell at a Milan auction today.
Sotheby’s had valued the opera singer’s 63 letters at as much as 70,000 euros ($102,739). The bidding didn’t get above 38,000 euros, said the auction house’s spokesman Matthew Weigman in a telephone interview. They were the only unsold lot of the sale, which is still going on, he said.
