 had a brief affair with notorious Irish-born American author and journalist Frank Harris, as recounted by the latter in his scandalous autobiography "My Life and Loves".Harris had met the Damala family in the summer of 1880, when they were all residents at the Hotel d'Athènes, in Athens.Harris and Eirene Damala (referred to in the book as "Mme M.") had a brief romantic/sexual affair, which Harris describes very graphically in his book.