Arianna Huffington has departed from the helm of the Huffington Post, leaving behind one of the most successful online publications and one of the most profitable in the burgeoning arena of social media. 
As magazines and newspapers scrambled to develop sites that fed the public thirst for content, she managed to build the Huffington Post as a trusted and credible source for news and commentary. Its imprimatur is distinctly respected.
Arianna Stassinopoulos
But who is Arianna really and how did she get here? Arianna Stassinopoulos was born in Athens, Greece. She attended Girton College in England. In 1981, she wrote a biography of Maria Callas, and later, a biography of Pablo Picasso. According to thenextweb, Arianna was accused of plagiarism for both of these biographies. A court settlement for the Callas work cost her “in the low five figures.”
“Maria Callas” by Arianna Stassinopoulos
I met her when I was working in television in the Boston market and she was touring America for the Maria Callas book. She was smart and I remember liking her very much. Later on, I met her at a dinner party in New York and she made it obvious that she wanted to get the attention of my dinner partner. (Which she did and she did date him for a while. I got dumped!)
Stassinopoulos, is hard to pin down, and she has sometimes been called “the Sir Edmund Hillary of social climbing.” She married well, Texas multimillionaire, Michael Huffington, who lost an expensive race to become a senator from California.
Today, she is both conservative and liberal and it is hard to tell which way the wind blows. Her first website called Resignation, was for conservatives opposing Clinton. 
She appears to be okay with changing her mind and position and, for the most part, her positions and commentaries have worked for her. She is considered one of the most powerful women voices in the world.
And, at age 66, she is starting a health and wellness company called Thrive Global and she recently wrote a book about the importance of sleep and rest. We wish her well in this next venture and look forward to watching what happens at the Huffington Post:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/arianna-huffington-to-leave-the-huffington-post-1470915169
tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arianna_Huffington
http://www.thriveglobal.com/
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