Olivia Harrison

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Olivia Trinidad Harrison (née Arias) is an American author and film director, as well as the widow of Beatles guitarist George Harrison.

She began working in Los Angeles for A&M Records, where she met George and later helped operate his Dark Horse record company.

She founded the Romanian Angel Appeal in 1990 to raise funds for the thousands of orphans who were abandoned in Romania after Communism's fall. Harrison has continued his international assistance efforts after her husband's death in 2001, and is the curator of film, book, and music collections related to his legacy.

She is a member of the Beatles' Apple Corps board and a director of his non-profit group, the Material World Foundation (MWF).

She has funded the preservation of film history in collaboration with American filmmaker Martin Scorsese under the auspices of the MWF.

Short films by Charlie Chaplin and works from 1940s Mexican cinema are among the restoration projects. Harrison spoke of George's spiritual aspirations, and her presence in the mid-1970s was reflected in a renewed enthusiasm for his music.

When she defeated a knife-wielding attacker who had stabbed George repeatedly, she and her husband were recognized as having saved her husband's life.

"Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special" is one of Harrison's film projects, her production of Concert for George received the Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video in 2005, and her co-production of Scorsese's 2011 film "Live in the Material World" earned an Emmy Award.

She wrote books to accompany both these films and, in 2017, she produced a new version of George's 1980 autobiography, I, Me Mine.

She is the mother of Dhani Harrison, who is also a singer.

Life

Arias was born in Los Angeles. Her grandparents immigrated to California after growing up in Guanajuato, central Mexico. Zeke's father, a dry cleaner, and her mother, Mary Louise, worked as a seamstress. Peter and Louise are among Arias' siblings. Despite spending her early childhood in Los Angeles, she grew up with a Mexican, Spanish-speaking entourage. In a 2016 interview, she recalled that Mexican music and films had been a regular part of her upbringing, with Zeke being a singer and guitarist, and Tro Los Panchos being among the artists she adored. Later in her youth, her family migrated west to Hawthorne, where she attended Hawthorne High School in the 1960s.

She began working with A&M Records in 1972, at the former Charlie Chaplin Studios in Hollywood. She regularly liaised by long-distance telephone with George Harrison, whose current record label, Dark Horse, was released by A&M in 1974 as a member of the marketing department. Harrison, who was dissatisfied with Arias, had planned for her to work solely for Dark Horse Records. In October 1974, the two met for the first time and soon became passionate. Arias worked with a roster of artists including Ravi Shankar, Splinter, Stairsteps, Attitudes, Keni Burke, and Henry McCullough from the 1970s to the present day. "She was a dependable and also tempered administrator, ably handling the daily chaos associated with the establishment of a new name and dealing with all sorts of personalities," author Robert Rodriguez said.

Arias had meditated with the Indian guru Maharaj-ji before meeting Harrison. Harrison's reliance on opioids and alcohol was reduced thanks to his shared interest in spirituality, as well as a vegetarian lifestyle. His 1976 album Thirty Three & The Embarray conveyed a more optimistic mood in which he displayed his faith without the disapproving tone that, for several music critics, marred his previous two albums. Arias told a reporter, "We have a good friendship" while accompanying Harrison on his fundraising efforts for Thirty Three & 1/3. If you're looking for something greater in the next world, you'll have a much more enjoyable time in this one."

On August 1, 1978, Arias gave birth to the couple's son Dhani Harrison at Princess Christian Nursing Home. Olivia and George married in a private ceremony at the Henley-on-Thames Register Office in England in November of this month. Their contentment during this period was again represented in George's songs, much of which he wrote at their holiday home on Maui in Hawaii. "Dark Sweet Lady," his self-titled 1979 album, captures Arias' revival, which he says best portrayed the revival he's had experienced in his youth.

She and her husband were still present in the recording studio as a member of the family. Giles Martin, a producer, said she was often the one in possession of the recording button.

Olivia, George, and Dhani spent significant time in the Pacific region, alternately living in Hana on Maui and Hamilton Island in the north-east of Australia following John Lennon's murder in New York in December 1980. Olivia remained largely out of the public eye as the wife of a former Beatle. She fought for Parents for Safe Food during George's struggle to save Henley's Regal Cinema from redevelopment by the John Lewis supermarket chain, and she campaigned with Barbara Bach, Ringo Starr's wife, on behalf of Parents for Safe Food. She was the object of hate mail and murder assaults at George's and her Henley estate, Friar Park, in 1989, but the story was not revealed until a London police officer leaked it to the public the following year.

She embraced the media in 1990, reacting to the plight of nearly 100,000 Romanian orphans who were abandoned in the resulting chaos that ensued following Nicolae Ceauescu's deposition of Romania's Communist leader, Nicolae Ceauşescu's deposition. She was "overwhelmed, devastated, and stunned" by the suffering she had endured while visiting Romania in early April. She founded the Romanian Angel Appeal (RAA) in the same month as the children were in need of assistance from the other Beatles' wives: Bach, Linda McCartney, and Yoko Ono. George helped raise funds for the orphanage by promoting the appeal on British television and radio, as well as his Traveling Wilburys bandmates who performed a cover version of "Nobody's Child" to help raise funds for the orphanage.

She wrote to The Guardian in October 1992 to express her displeasure with author Geoffrey Giuliano, who had just published a biography of her husband. She accused Giuliano of fusing a brief relationship with George into a long-term friendship, as well as shaming Paul McCartney's portrayal, which Giuliano dismissed as "vacuous and shallow."

A deranged man broke into Friar Park on December 30, 1999, and George and Olivia were assaulted. After hearing sounds, George went downstairs. George returned, followed by the attacker, and multiple times, stabbed repeatedly. Olivia sparked the assassination attempt with a fireplace poker and a heavy table lamp, and he turned on her. The Harrisons were hospitalized after the local police arrived and arrested the criminal. The man was described as saying he was on a "mission sent by God" and that the Beatles were "witches." Olivia's home invasion was a front-page news story around the world, with some newspapers quoting Olivia as having "saved" her husband. The assault took place on December 23 after a female stalker was arrested and burst into a Harrisons' Maui home. Olivia did not know everything about it, every millisecond, in a 2005 interview. I was afraid, but it's one of those things that you do just do in a state of alert so you will never really forget any of it."

George's injuries from the Friar Park shooting were more serious than was expected in the press, resulting in the removal of a portion of one of his lungs. The cancer that had been treated with chemotherapy in 1998 resurfaced in the form of lung cancer within a year. When he died in Los Angeles on November 29, 2001, Olivia and Dhani were at his bedside. "George was the funniest guy I knew," she later told a Sunday Times interview: "George was the funniest man I ever knew." When he died, it was like, 'Oh, no, the party's over'.

Harrison was in seclusion for a time as a result of her grief. Gilbert Lederman, a doctor at Staten Island University Hospital, where George underwent experimental radiation therapy before heading to Los Angeles, committed misconduct by compulsioning him to listen to the doctor's young son's playing guitar and autographing the boy's guitar, although in pain and lacking his mental abilities. The lawsuit, which also addressed Lederman's discussion of the former Beatle's health in the media, was settled outside of court with a guarantee that the guitar be destroyed.

Following her husband's death, Harrison joined Yoko Ono (Lennon's widow), Paul McCartney, and Ringo Starr in governing the lucrative Beatles financial empire. She is one of Apple Corps' five directors. She attended the Beatles Love stage show in Las Vegas in June 2006, a venture that George had initiated as a result of his acquaintance with Cirque du Soleil's Guy Laliberté. In June 2009, she appeared on stage at Microsoft's E3 press conference with Ono, McCartney, and Starr to support The Beatles: Rock Band.

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