Not only that, she's a "babe."
Here is her own explanation of her transformation:
http://www.ariannaonline.com/latimes.html
I haven't assessed the supposed "change" in her political positions. Would have to look more carefully at what she has written, but she IS a quite interesting columnist now in the Los Angeles Times.
By the way, I have never been invited to one of her soirees.
Peter Kosenko Santa Monica, CA
>The attempt to position LA as a cultural mecca has recently received
>a big boost from the advent of Arianna Stassinopoulos's radical
>Brentwood salon. The LA Times ran an article about this new
>intellectual forum the other day, citing it as "precisely the sort of
>cultural and artistic resource that the city is often accused of not
>having". As fate would have it, just a few hours after I had read
>this article, a friend of mine called to say that he had an
>invitation to the next Stassinopoulos gathering and would I like to
>go with him? This particular soiree, he explained, was being held to
>celebrate a new book about Pinochet by the Left-wing journalist (and
>Arianna's dear friend) Marc Cooper.
>
>Leftist chums are, of course, a relatively recent phenomenon in
>Stassinopoulos's life. It was only a few years ago, you will
>remember, that she was being hailed as one of the Boudiccas of
>America's Right wing. In 1994, when she was still married to the
>billionaire Michael Huffington, she essentially ran his $30 million
>campaign to become Republican Senator for California. But Huffington
>lost the Senate race to the Democratic incumbent, and shortly
>afterwards he and Stassinopoulos parted ways. He publicly declared
>his homosexuality and joined the Democratic Party. She abandoned
>Washington for California and repositioned herself as a populist
>progressive.