Jackie, Janet & Lee

by J. Randy Taraborrelli

  I would also like to acknowledge my domestic agent, Mitch Douglas, for almost twenty years of terrific representation. Mitch is a good friend as well as my agent, and I am eternally grateful to him.

  And I would like to acknowledge my foreign agent, Dorie Simmonds of the Dorie Simmonds Agency in London, who not only represented me for more than twenty years but is a trusted friend.

  I would like to thank my very good friend Andy Hirsch, for reading this book before publication for his point of view. My close friend Jillian DeVaney also read it in manuscript stage and offered invaluable insight, and so I thank her as well. Barb Mueller read it in its infancy, too, and I thank her, as well as my sister, Roz Barnett, who also pored through many early drafts to render important and useful opinions.

  My thanks to Jonathan Hahn, a brilliant writer, my personal publicist, and good friend.

  Special thanks also to Michael Horowitz, Jo Ann McMahon, and Felinda Adlawan of Horowitz Zaron McMahon as well as Stephen Breimer and Candice Hanson of Bloom, Hergott, Diemer, et. al.

  Thanks to: Andy Steinlen, George Solomon, Jeff Hare, Samuel Munoz, Bruce Rheins, Dawn Westlake, Jeff Cook, Brandon Schmook, Richard Tyler Jordan, John Passantino, Linda DiStefano, Hazel and Rob Kragulac, Andy Skurow, Brad Scarton, Brian Newman, Scherrie Payne, Freda Payne, Susaye Greene, Barbara Ormsby, David Spiro, Billy Masters, Marlene Morris, Kac Young, Yvette Jarecki, Robin Roth, Sammy Roth, Mary Downey, Felipe Echeri, Laura Fagin, Corey Sheppard, Rita Bosico, Deb Armstrong, Susan Kayaoglu, Sal Pinto, David Gunther, Eric Edmonds, Michael Coleman, Rob Kesselring, and Howard Field.

  I also want to acknowledge my television producing partners and colleagues: my very good friend Keri Selig along with Jonathan Koch, Steve Michaels, Stanley Hubbard, Michael Prupus, Stephen Kronish, Joan Harrison, Sherryl Clark, Eva Miller, and Kimberly Current.

  I have always been so blessed to have a family as supportive as mine. My thanks and love go out to: Roslyn and Bill Barnett and Jessica and Zachary; Rocco and Rosemaria Taraborrelli and Rocco and Vincent; and Arnold Taraborrelli. A big smile, also, for Spencer Douglas Taraborrelli.

  I must also acknowledge those readers of mine who have followed my career over the years. I am indebted to each and every reader who has stuck by me. I am eternally grateful to anyone who takes the time to pick up one of my books and read it. Thank you so much.

  This book is dedicated to my late parents, Rocco and Rose Marie Taraborrelli. Both encouraged a young kid from Morton, Pennsylvania, to not only reach for the stars but to do so with the knowledge that they’d be there for him whenever he fell short of the mark, which was often. I miss them.

  Index

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  Acton, Lord of

  Adams, Harold

  Addison’s disease

  Agnelli, Gianni

  Aldrech, Lois

  Aldrich, Winthrop

  Alzheimer’s Association

  Alzheimer’s disease

  Sundowner’s Syndrome in

  Americana Hotel chain

  American Club, Hong Kong

  American Psychiatric Association (APA)

  Arancio, Ottavio

  Archer, Jeffrey

  Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia

  Jackie’s burial at

  JFK’s burial at

  Kennedy children burials at

  Armani, Giorgio

  Around the World in 80 Days (movie)

  Atkins-Manzel, Deena

  Auchincloss, Alice

  Auchincloss, Cecil

  Auchincloss, Emma Brewster Jennings

  Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley, III “Yusha” (Janet’s stepson)

  birth of

  death of

  father’s death and

  Hammersmith’s sale and

  Jack Black’s death and

  Jackie-JFK marriage and

  Jackie’s death and

  Janet Jr.’s death and

  Janet-Morris marriage and

  Janet’s Alzheimer’s and

  Janet’s death and

  at Janet’s eightieth birthday celebration

  JFK presidential campaign/election and

  JFK’s death and

  Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley, Jr. “Hughdie” (Janet’s 2nd husband)

  background of

  children’s births and

  Chrapovitsky’s marriage to

  death of

  financial struggles of

  health of

  Jackie-JFK marriage and

  Jackie-Onassis marriage and

  Janet Jr.-Rutherfurd marriage and

  Janet’s marriage to

  JFK’s death and

  JFK’s presidential campaign/election and

  sexuality of

  Vidal’s marriage to

  will/estate of

  Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley, Sr.

  Auchincloss, James Lee “Jamie” (Janet’s son)

  birth of/christening of

  father’s death and

  Hammersmith’s sale and

  inheritances/financial support to

  Jackie biography interviews by

  Jackie-JFK marriage and

  Jackie-Onassis relationship and

  Jackie’s death and

  Janet Jr.’s death and

  Janet-Morris marriage and

  Janet’s Alzheimer’s and

  Janet’s death and

  at Janet’s eightieth birthday celebration

  JFK presidential campaign/election and

  JFK’s death and

  Lee-Radziwill marriage and

  Lee’s acting career and

  twenty-first birthday celebration for

  Auchincloss, John Winthrop

  Auchincloss, Maya

  Auchincloss, Parker & Redpath, Washington, D.C.

  Auchincloss, Thomas “Tommy” (Janet’s stepson)

  birth of

  father’s death and

  financial support to

  Hammersmith’s sale and

  Janet’s death and

  JFK’s inauguration and

  Auchincloss, Tommy

  Baldrige, Letitia

  Baldwin, Bertha

  Baldwin, Billy

  Balridge, Carolyn

  Balridge, Edward

  Balridge, Julian

  Barber, Danine

  Bartlett, Charles L.

  Beale, Bouvier

  Beale, Edith Bouvier “Big Edie”

  Beale, Edith “Little Edie”

  Beale, Phelan

  Beale, Phelan, Jr.

  Beard, Peter

  Lee’s relationship with

  Beaton, Cecil

  Benchley, Peter

  Berenson, Bernard

  Bernstein, Leonard

  Bessette, Carolyn

  Bessette, Lauren

  Billingsley, Barbara

  Birmingham, Stephen

  Black Ships Festival, Newport, Rhode Island

  Blake, Robert

  Blake, Sylvia Whitehouse

  Blitz, Esther Auchincloss Nash

  Blitz, Norman

  Block, Jack

  Blodget, Dick

  Booth, Charles

  Boston Children’s Hospital

  Boston Herald Traveler

  Bouvier, Bud

  Bouvier, John, I

  Bouvier, John, II

  Bouvier, John, III “Black Jack” (Janet’s 1st husband)

  alcohol use by

  background of

  death of

  at Jackie-JFK’s wedding

  Jackie’s/Lee’s relationship with

  Janet’s divorce from

  Janet’s marriage to

  womanizing by

  Bouvier, Kathleen

  Bouvier, Michel, Jr.

  Bouvier, Michel, S
r.

  The Bouviers (Davis)

  Braden, Joan

  Braden, Tom

  Bradford, Sarah

  Bradlee, Ben

  Bradlee, Toni

  Brennan, Joyce Faria

  Janet’s death and

  Janet’s friendship with

  Brenton, Jahleel

  Brenton, William

  Browne, Leslie

  Brownley, Karina

  Brownley, Leon

  Burgess, Winfred

  Burke, David

  Burling, Ella

  Burr, Aaron

  Callas, Maria

  Camelot Gardens (Hammersmith Farm), Rhode Island

  Canfield, Cass

  Canfield, Katsy

  Canfield, Michael Temple (Lee’s 1st husband)

  alcohol use by

  bloodline of

  death of

  England relocation by

  Lee’s courtship by

  Lee’s divorce/annulment from

  Lee’s marriage to

  sexuality of

  Capote, Truman

  Caroline (aircraft)

  Carpozi, George

  Carter, Jimmy

  Casals, Pablo

  Caspary, Vera

  Cassini, Oleg

  Castallanos, Agnetta

  the Castle, Hammersmith Farm

  Catch Me If You Can (play)

  Cavett, Dick

  Celeste, Vincent J.

  Chapin’s School for Girls, New York City

  Charles, Oatsie Leiter

  Auchincloss, Hugh, death and

  Janet-Morris marriage and

  Janet’s death and

  at Janet’s eightieth birthday celebration

  Charteris, Frances Laura

  Cheaver, Audrey

  Cheaver, Thomas

  Chicago Tribune

  Chrapovitsky, Maya de

  Christ Church, Washington, D.C.

  Christina O (yacht)

  Jackie-Lee-Onassis vacation, 1963, on

  Jackie-Onassis wedding and

  Churchill, Clementine

  Churchill, Randolph

  Churchill, Sir Winston

  Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, New York City

  Church of the Heavenly Rest, New York City

  civil rights movement

  Clark, Laura Pyzel

  Cleveland, Esther

  Cleveland, Mrs. Grover

  Cocteau, Jean

  Coffee Hour with Senator and Mrs. Kennedy (TV program)

  Coles, Robert

  Combs, Bertram Thomas

  Combs, Lois

  Conversations with Lee Radziwill (TV pilot)

  Cope, Newton

  Coppola, Sofia

  Cornell University Medical Center, New York City

  Courrèges, André

  Crawford, Mrs. John, III

  Crook, Janet

  Cuban Missile Crisis

  Cukor, George

  Curtin, Nellie

  Cushing, Richard Cardinal

  Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston

  Davis, Barry

  Davis, John

  Davis, Lyndon

  Death of a President (Manchester)

  DeFalco, Carole

  Delacorte Press

  DeMave, Jack

  Democratic Women’s TV Committee

  de Monléon, Rose

  de Valera, Eamon

  de Valera, Sinéad

  DeWitt, Anna

  Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

  Dillon, Phyllis

  Dominick, Nancy

  Dominick, Peter

  Doubleday Publishing

  Draper, Dorothy

  Drorbaugh, James

  Dupree, Michael

  Janet’s Alzheimer’s and

  Janet’s death and

  Dwynne, Erskine

  Eisenhower, Dwight

  Eisenhower, Mamie

  Elizabeth II, Queen (of United Kingdom)

  The End of the Game (Beard)

  Ericson, John

  Evans, Peter

  Ewalt, Sally

  Exile on Main Street tour

  Faria, Linda

  Janet’s death and

  Janet’s friendship with

  Faria, Louise

  Janet’s death and

  Janet’s friendship with

  Faria, Manuel “Mannie”

  death of

  Janet-Morris marriage and

  Janet’s death and

  at Janet’s eightieth birthday celebration

  Janet’s friendship with

  Fay, Paul, Jr. “Red”

  Fenston, Felix Donovan

  Fine Arts Commission, Washington, D.C.

  Fitzgerald, John Francis

  Foley, Aileen

  Foley, Emily

  Fontaine, Joan

  Fonteyn, Margot

  Ford, Charlotte

  Ford, Gerald

  Ford, Henry, II

  Forger, Alexander D.

  Fowler, Ruth

  Fox, Jill Fuller

  Francis, Arlene

  Friede, Eleanor

  Fritz-Cope, Isabelle

  Fritz-Cope, Marguerite

  Frost, Robert

  Fuller, Blair

  Galbraith, John Kenneth

  Galitzine, Princess Irene

  Gallagher, Mary Barelli

  Gambit, Theresa

  Garoufalidis, Artemis

  Gaylord, Joan

  George, Prince, the Duke of Kent

  Geyelin, Philip

  Geyelin, Sherry

  Gilmore, Eddy

  Gilpatric, Roswell

  Gimme Shelter (documentary)

  Gin, Yuen T.

  Good Housekeeping

  Goodwin, Barbara

  Goodwin, Delores

  Goodwin, Richard

  Granger, Farley

  Grant, Cary

  The Greatest Show on Earth (play)

  Grey Gardens (documentary)

  Guber, Lee

  Guinzburg, Tom

  Gurney, Accardi

  Halston (designer)

  Hamill, Pete

  Hammersmith Farm, Newport, Rhode Island

  Caretaker’s House at

  the Castle at

  Deck Room of

  financial struggles involving

  Jackie-JFK anniversary at

  Janet Jr.’s coming out party at

  Janet Jr.’s wedding reception at

  Janet’s ashes spread at

  the Palace at

  as presidential getaway

  sale of

  Sunken Garden of

  the Windmill at

  Hannah, Daryl

  Hannan, Philip Matthew

  Happy Times (Radziwill)

  Hardy, Jean Maree

  Harper & Brothers (previously Hamish Hamilton)

  Harper’s Bazaar

  Hart, Kitty Carlisle

  Harvard

  Harvard Medical School Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston

  Haslam, Nicky

  Hayes, John F., Jr.

  Hayes, Rutherford

  Hepburn, Katharine

  Hewitt, Patricia

  Hewitt, William

  Hickory Hill estate, McLean, Virginia

  Hill, Clint

  Hill, Jerry

  Hill, Pat

  Hilton, Nicky

  Hilton, Trish

  HMS Resolute

  Hoff, Philip

  Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Georgetown, Washington, D.C.

  Homer

  the Honey Fitz (yacht)

  Horst, Horst P.

  Hubert, Rue Hill

  Huntington Hotel, San Francisco

  Husted, Helen

  Husted, John Grinnel Wetmore, Jr.

  In Cold Blood (Capote)

  “The Inquiring Camera Girl” column

  Inter-Asia Venture Management, Ltd.

  International Council of Women

  Ivanhoe Theate
r, Chicago

  Jackie Oh! (Kelley)

  Jackson, Andrew

  Jackson, Michael

  Jagger, Bianca

  Jagger, Mick

  James T. Lee Foundation Inc.

  Jefferson, Thomas

  Jennings, Lavinia

  Jennings, Oliver B.

  John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

  Johnson, Lyndon

  Johnston, Cecily Freitas

  Johnston, Don

  Johnston, Garrett

  John XXIII, Pope

  Jones, John Wesley

  Jones, Katherine del Valle

  Kaiser, Henry J.

  Kaye, Nora

  Kearney, Margaret Anne

  Kefauver, Estes

  Kelley, Kitty

  Kennedy, Arabella (Jackie-JFK’s stillborn daughter)

  reinterment of

  Kennedy, Ethel

  Jackie’s children’s births and

  Jackie’s death and

  RFK’s death and

  Kennedy, Joan

  Kennedy, Joe

  womanizing by

  Kennedy, John Fitzgerald “Jack” (JFK)

  Arabella’s birth/death and

  assassination of

  campaign, presidential, by

  campaign, vice-presidential, by

  Caroline’s birth to

  Cuban Missile Crisis and

  Germany-Ireland tour of 1963 by

  health issues of

  inauguration of

  Jackie’s courtship by

  Jackie’s marriage to

  John Jr.’s birth to

  Lee’s relationship with

  memorial for

  Patrick’s birth/death and

  portrait unveiling, White House

  as president

  as senator

  womanizing by

  Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, Jr. (Jackie-JFK’s son)

  birth of

  death/kidnapping threats to

  death of

  George magazine by

  Jackie-Onassis marriage and

  Jackie’s death and

  Janet’s death and

  Janet’s eightieth birthday celebration and

  JFK’s death and

  Radziwill, Stas, death and

  Kennedy, Kathleen

  Kennedy Library

  Kennedy, Patrick (Ted’s son)

  Kennedy, Patrick Bouvier (Jackie-JFK’s son)

  reinterment of

  Kennedy, Robert “Bobby” (RFK)

  assassination of

  Jackie-JFK children’s births and

  JFK’s death and

  Lee’s annulment and

  presidential campaign of

  Warnecke’s relationship with

  Kennedy, Rose

  Jackie-JFK’s stillborn child and

  Onassis’s meeting with

  Kennedy, Teddy

  Chappaquidick scandal of

  Jackie-JFK children’s deaths and

  Jackie-Onassis prenuptial agreement and

  Kennedy, Vicki

  Kerkorian, Kirk