Calypso: I have heard this story told and retold all my life. But no one ever gets it right.
I had the plan, I had the music, I had the look, I had the ambition.
[fixing her hair]
There was just one last thing to take care of.
The summer of 1973 was the last summer Calypso was in contact with her father. On June 12th that year, Atlas Elysia was accused of embezzlement, fraud, and possession of stolen property.
Cal: I woke up that morning, opened the paper, took a shot, and picked up the phone.
First I called a lawyer. Then I called a record label.
On November 22nd 1973, Atlas Elysia was proven guilty and sentenced to 50 years in prison, only five months after his initial scandal.
Calypso: Money makes the system move.
Ironic isn't it? [half smiles] Stolen money funding a man's guilt, paying for his lawyer.
My inheritance putting my father in prison.
Zoë: There's really not much to say about it.
Just that so much of Calypsos life was credited to luck, to uncontrollable factors- blessings, miracles. They always seem to count her out of her own game.
They say that life was happening to her, instead of her going out and getting what she wanted. But Calypso was never passive.
Think about it, we all know the case. Our father nearly walked free nearly was cleared of all charges before Cal came on the witness stand. Who sent those letters? Who recorded those conversations? Who followed men three times her age to bed to catch their dirty little secrets to spill to the jury? Who in all the world would benefit from the fall of Atlas Elysia?
Calypso: Means to an end I suppose.
A lie to end a life.
I never felt bad about it, locking him away like he did to me all those years. Because that's what it was. Imprisonment. I tried to force myself to sympathy in those first few months of the accusations, but as soon as the dust started to settle I panicked. I was losing ground, I didn't have substantial proof. So I made some. I saw my chance to be free and I took it- can you blame me?
My inheritance stopped paying for lawyers and started paying for liquor.
Karma is a fucking force to be reckoned with.
By the time the verdict came, by the time my father was behind bars, my first single 'Karma' hit number one on the charts.
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