Mistresses: Marita Lorenz | 98
Even The Royals
Wondery
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🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
A tangled web of life-and-death espionage, beginning in Cuba with a mission to poison her lover, Fidel Castro, and ending in Dallas on the eve of the JFK assassina:on. But how many of Marita Lorenz’s stories can we believe? We share all the drama:c details of a life lived in the shadows and debate why Marita’s words have so o‘en been called into ques:on.
In this funny, fascinating, and scandal-filled podcast, Jameela Jamil and historian Dr Kate Lister pore over the stories of six astonishing “other women”. Women who have been shamed, disparaged and underestimated. Some have been cheated out of the history books altogether. Now Jameela and Kate are placing their stories in the spotlight – to see what history looks like through the eyes of the so-called side-chick.
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| 0:00.0 | Before we get started, a quick heads up, that this episode will have adult content throughout. |
| 0:04.4 | The woman will be looking at went through some extraordinary but also very dark events in her life. |
| 0:09.3 | And on top of that, there will be some strong language as well. |
| 0:13.6 | From the bedrooms of powerful men, we're bringing you the secret histories of their mistresses, concubines and courtesans. |
| 0:21.2 | I'm Jamila Jamil. I'm an actor, a writer and a broadcaster. |
| 0:25.0 | And I'm Dr. Kate Lister, a historian with a punch on to the scandalous tales from centuries past. |
| 0:30.6 | This is mistresses, an audible original. |
| 0:38.2 | Picture the scene, Jamila. It's January, 1960 in Cuba. The country is one year into a new |
| 0:46.6 | political regime led by none other than Fidel Castro. Marita Lorenz, a 21-year-old German |
| 0:53.0 | woman and girlfriend of Fidel, is at the Havana Libre Hotel, standing alone in the bathroom of the penthouse suite, and she's panicking. |
| 1:01.3 | The bathroom sink is covered in thick white goop. |
| 1:04.9 | Cheers. |
| 1:06.1 | That's... |
| 1:08.4 | That's... |
| 1:09.0 | Chameela! |
| 1:09.8 | Ha! Ha! I might just have to say... That's... Jamila. Ha ha! |
| 1:13.4 | I might just have to sidestep this. |
| 1:16.0 | Okay, right. |
| 1:17.6 | This is going to be jizz-free, right? |
| 1:19.7 | Is it? |
| 1:20.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:22.2 | Marita is panicking, scrambling around in the sink. |
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