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The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters

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by Sam Kashner


  atmosphere in Dallas before, 120–121

  funeral and aftermath, 124–125

  Jackie and, 4, 7, 13, 121–123, 125, 126, 127, 128–133, 159–160

  Lee and, 125–127, 129–130, 192

  Kennedy, John F. Jr., 78, 187, 201, 231

  acting ambitions of, 267–268

  attends law school, 269, 270

  birth of, 73

  Caroline’s wedding and, 255, 256

  death of, 276–278, 279, 284

  education of, 171, 173, 180, 204, 222

  in Greece, 163, 167, 168, 169, 175

  in Ireland, 152

  Jackie’s estate and, 276

  Jackie’s illness, death, and funeral, 1, 267, 268, 272–273

  Lee’s personal documentary and, 203–204

  marries Bessette, 276

  Onassis’s death and, 208–210

  Kennedy, Joseph (JFK’s father), 56, 162–163

  Kennedy, Joseph Jr. (JFK’s brother), 206, 277, 279

  Kennedy, Kathleen “Kick,” 117, 277

  Kennedy, Patrick Bouvier (son), 118, 126, 145, 167, 169, 274, 279

  Kennedy, Robert F. (Bobby)

  assassination of, 159–162, 167

  Jackie and, 146, 148, 160, 275

  Jacobson and, 81

  Kennedy’s assassination and, 129, 130

  after Kennedy’s death, 134–137

  Kennedy’s paramours and, 126

  Lee and, 117, 275

  Onassis and, 116, 117, 158–159

  Vidal and insult to Jackie in White House, 95, 251

  Kennedy, Rose, 162–163, 177, 221

  death of, 274

  ninety-ninth birthday of, 264

  Kenneth (hairdresser), 151

  Kennett, Audrey, 224

  Khrushchev, Nikita, 80, 88, 89, 113

  King, Larry, 283–285

  Kinnicutt, Dorothy May (Sister Parish), 98–100

  Kistler, Terry, 225, 226

  Klemesrud, Judy, 215, 238

  Knickerbocker, Suzy, 143

  Kolin, Grace Maria, 60

  Krock, Arthur, 49, 50, 51

  Kuhn, William, 228

  Ladies’ Home Journal, 142, 190

  Lambert, Eleanor, 201–202

  Lasata (Bouvier estate)

  Jackie and Lee at, 3, 4, 12, 205

  memories and influences of, 59, 91, 141, 176, 230, 295

  sale of, 21

  “Last Day, The” (Seferis), 221–222

  Laura (play), 153–154

  Lawford, Pat Kennedy, 141, 169, 272

  Lawford, Peter, 141

  Lawrence, Greg, 237

  Leaming, Barbara, 16–17

  Lear, Frances, 260

  Lee (Radziwill), 252, 289

  Lee, James Thomas Aloysius (grandfather), 13, 19, 21

  Légion d’honneur, awarded to Lee, 290

  Leonard, John, 229

  Lerman, Leo, 180–181, 182, 183, 184, 199, 213, 214

  Lerner, Karen, 185

  Lévy, Bernard-Henri, 290

  Lewis, Annie Burr, 24

  Lewis, Wilmarth Sheldon “Lefty,” 24

  Liaigre, Christian, 292

  Lichtenstein, Roy and Dorothy, 254

  Life (Richards), 192

  Life magazine, 28, 124, 153, 155, 223

  Lincoln, Evelyn, 96

  Lincoln, Mary Todd, 98

  Livanos, Tina. See Onassis, Tina Livanos

  Look magazine, 20, 137

  Lowell, Robert, 226, 262

  Luce, Henry, 114

  Macmillan, Harold, 88

  Madison, James and Dolly, 51

  Mailer, Norman, 103–104, 190

  Malraux, André, 83–85, 88

  Manchester, William, 7, 121, 134–137, 146, 152

  Marquand, John Jr., 41

  marriage, of Jackie and Onassis

  Jackie leaves New York for reasons of privacy, 160–161, 166–167

  Jackie’s happiness during, 173–178, 179

  Jackie’s spending and absence from Greece, 180–182, 202

  Kennedy children and, 163, 167, 168, 169, 171, 175, 179, 180

  Lee’s reactions to, 165–166, 169, 171–173, 177–178, 199

  Onassis and Callas and, 119, 158, 163, 164–165, 180, 181–184, 201–203

  Onassis children and, 162, 164, 169, 170, 175, 177

  Onassis’s plans to divorce Jackie, 195, 196, 197

  prenuptial agreement and, 163–164

  reactions to, 158–159, 160, 162–170

  wedding ceremony, 168–170

  Masters, George, 149–150, 151

  Matthau, Carol, 191

  Maysles, Albert and David, 4, 205–208

  McCall’s, 142, 177

  McClanahan, Muriel, 40

  McNamara, Robert, 129

  Meier, Richard, 260

  Mekas, Jonas, 203–205, 231

  Melissinos, Stavros, 176

  Mellon, Bunny, 100, 136, 272

  Mellon, James “Jay,” 189, 224, 242

  Mémoires (de Gaulle), 56

  Meneghini, Giovanni, 116–117

  Menshikov, Mikhail, 88

  Merrywood (Auchincloss estate), 8, 20, 21, 36, 40, 217

  Lee’s wedding at, 54–55

  Meyer, André, 164

  Meyer, Mary Pinchot, 76

  Mezzadri, Ferruccio, 164–165, 182–183

  Milosz, Czeslaw, 225

  Miotis, Alexis, 175

  Miss Porter’s School

  Jackie at, 14, 21–22, 27, 76, 92, 104, 228, 273

  Lee at, 7, 20, 21–22, 24–25, 29, 45, 148, 150

  Mongiardino, Renzo, 63–65, 67, 68, 100–101, 139

  Montgomery, Charles, 98

  Moonwalk (Jackson), 237

  Moore, Ellen and Mamie, 51

  Morris, Bingham Willing “Booch,” 235–236, 263, 264

  Morrissey, Paul, 186–187

  Mrs. Kennedy (Leaming), 16–17

  Ms. magazine, 227

  Muses Are Heard, The (Capote), 191

  Nabokov, Nicolas, 224

  National Enquirer, 146

  Needleman, Deborah, 291

  Nehru, Jawaharlal, 105–106, 107, 108, 281

  Neilson, Nigel, 211

  Newport Clambake Club, 25, 26

  New York Daily Mirror, 18

  New York magazine, 248

  New York Post, 148, 160

  New York Review of Books, 224

  New York Times, 51, 59, 98, 137, 154, 200, 214, 215, 222, 229, 271

  Niarchos, Stavros, 164, 182, 195

  Nichols, Mike, 178, 236, 273, 282

  Nomikos, Markos, 91

  Noonan, William “Billy,” 272

  Norman, Jessie, 273

  Norwich, William, 292

  Nureyev, Rudolf, 63, 172, 241, 260

  death of, 265

  Jackie and, 67, 69–70

  Lee and, 66–70, 114, 149, 151, 216, 254

  Lee’s wedding to Ross and, 258, 259

  O’Brien, Larry, 125

  Old Goriot (Balzac), 295–296

  Onassis, Alexander, 164, 169–170, 177

  death of, 195–199, 201–202, 208, 209, 277, 279

  father’s plans to divorce Jackie, 195, 196

  Onassis, Aristotle

  Alexander’s death and, 195–199, 201–202, 208, 279

  background of, 115

  death of, 4, 208–211

  financial problems of, 180–182, 202

  Kennedys’ assassination and, 125–126

  Lee and, 115–120, 149, 177–178, 210, 245

  personality of, 158

  “Project Omega,” 171, 182

  see also marriage, of Jackie and Onassis

  Onassis, Artemis, 162–163, 169, 202, 209

  Onassis, Christina, 162, 164, 169, 177, 202

  daughter of, 211–212

  death of, 212

  father’s death and, 196, 197, 198, 209–211, 213

  marriages and divorces of, 195, 211

  Onassis, Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy, 34, 51, 53, 117–
118, 269

  affection for father, 3, 4, 8, 17, 21

  Alexander Onassis’s death and, 201–202

  Beales and, 170, 201, 205, 207, 208

  beauty and beauty routine of, 9, 27, 34

  beginnings of estrangement from Lee, 3–4, 7, 9–10, 46

  birth of, 12

  Bobby Kennedy and, 146, 148, 160, 175

  Bobby Kennedy’s assassination and, 159, 161–162

  builds Red Gate Farm in Martha’s Vineyard, 230–231

  Capote and, 144–145, 146

  Caroline’s wedding and, 255–258

  as Catholic, 9, 19

  at Chapin School, 22

  Cuban Missile Crisis, 111–114

  as debutante, 14, 25–26, 28, 79

  description of self, 34–35

  as editor at Doubleday, 229–230, 236–237, 271

  as editor at Viking, 222–229

  estate of, 229–230, 276

  fashion sense and, 78–80

  father’s death and, 58–59

  at George Washington University, 40

  Husted’s engagement to, 52, 55

  illness, death, and funeral of, 1, 267–268, 271–273, 274

  infidelities of husbands and, 76–77, 96–97, 114–115, 145, 184

  as “Inquiring Cameragirl” for Washington Times-Herald, 49–52, 55, 97, 223

  Jacobson and, 81, 89

  John Jr.’s flying and, 277

  Kennedy and, 110–111, 119, 174

  Kennedy’s engagement to, 55–57

  Lee and Ross’s wedding and, 268

  Lee differs from, 13–16, 24–25

  Lee on, 213

  Lee’s acting and, 152–153

  Lee’s divorce of Radziwill and, 199

  Lee’s engagement to Cope and, 243–244

  Lee’s marriage to Canfield annulled, 105

  Lee’s nickname for, 14

  Lee’s wedding to Ross, 258, 260

  Manchester and, 133–137

  at Miss Porter’s School, 14, 21–22, 27, 76, 92, 104, 228, 273

  Morris and, 263

  mother and, 16–17, 264

  mother’s will and, 264–265

  Nureyev and, 67, 69–70

  Onassis’s death and, 4, 196, 197, 198–199, 208–211, 221–222

  Onassis’s estate and, 210–211, 223

  parents’ divorce and, 3, 8–9, 18–19

  personality of, 14–15, 102–104, 287

  poetry and, 2–3, 15, 33, 35, 47, 104, 221–222, 225–226, 270, 273

  Prix de Paris award, 32–35, 41, 93, 228

  pronunciation of first name, 37

  smoking and, 25, 268

  speaking voice of, 28, 104, 218

  Stas Radziwill and, 60, 71, 235

  style and interests of, 2–3, 26–27, 78–80

  at Vassar, 27, 28–29, 76, 84

  Warhol’s Montauk cottage and, 186

  wealth of, 244, 245

  White House redecoration and, 97–101

  White House television tour and, 101–104

  White House visits of Lee and Radziwill, 74–77, 94–95, 103

  will and estate of, 1–2, 264–265, 274–275

  see also Kennedy, John F., assassination of; marriage, of Jackie and Onassis; travel, of Jackie and Lee

  Onassis, Socrates, 115

  Onassis, Tina Livanos, 115, 164, 195

  One Special Summer (Radziwill), 42, 43, 217–218

  Other Voices, Other Rooms (Capote), 247

  Paley, Babe, 142–143, 144, 147, 191, 215, 248

  Paley, William, 147, 215, 249

  Palimpset (Vidal), 20

  Pearson, Drew, 116

  Pecci-Blunt, Countess Anna, 46–47

  People magazine, 200, 234, 247, 268–269

  Perry, Eleanor, 165–166

  Philadelphia, Story, The (Barry), 149

  Philip, prince of England, 90

  Pilgrim’s Progress (Bunyan), 225

  Pinchot, Tony, 76–77

  Playboy magazine, 248

  Playgirl magazine, 251

  Plimpton, George, 95, 222, 227–228, 230, 257–258

  Poets & Writers, 225

  Porter, Cole, 11

  Portrait of a President (Manchester), 134

  Pound, Ezra, 256

  Preston, Kiki Whitney, 53

  Prix de Paris award, Jackie and, 32–35, 41, 93, 228

  Proust, Marcel, 246–248

  Putnam, Michelle Bouvier (aunt), 141

  Pynchon, Thomas, 44

  Radziwill, Anna Christina (Tina) (daughter), 116, 242

  birth of, 73–74

  father’s death and, 235

  Jackie and, 1–2, 178, 240–241, 272

  Kennedy cousins and, 78, 139, 187, 204, 231, 258, 273, 274, 276, 279

  Lee on, 213

  Lee’s personal documentary and, 203–204

  parents’ divorce and, 199, 200, 204

  Ross and, 260–261

  Tufo and, 237–238

  Radziwill, Anthony (son), 1–2, 139, 178, 235, 242, 262, 272

  birth of, 65

  father’s death and, 235

  illness and death of, 276, 278–279, 282, 284–285

  Kennedy cousins and, 78, 231, 273, 274, 276, 279

  Lee’s personal documentary and, 203–204

  parents’ divorce and, 199, 200, 204

  Ross and, 260–261

  Radziwill, Carole Ann deFalco, 265–266

  Anthony’ illness and death and, 276, 278–279

  on Bessette, 270

  on Lee, 48, 266–267, 289–290, 293

  Radziwill, Caroline Lee Bouvier, 9, 77, 89, 103, 117, 174, 178, 227, 245, 253, 269

  acting experience of, 7, 27–28, 30, 148–155, 191

  affection for father, 3, 4, 8, 17, 21, 29–30, 59, 283, 295

  Agnelli and, 94–95

  alcoholism and, 240–242

  Anthony’s death and, 279, 284–285

  Anthony’s engagement and wedding and, 265–267

  Beales and, 205–208

  Beard’s affair with, 178–180, 185–186, 199, 219

  beauty of, 9, 10, 15

  birth of, 12

  Callas and, 214–215

  Canfield’s marriage to, 3, 53–55, 57, 60–61, 62, 105, 114

  Capote and, 142–144, 147–148, 251–253

  as Catholic, 9, 24

  childhood attempt to adopt orphan, 23–24

  Christina’s birth and Lee’s depression after, 73–74

  Cope and, 239–240, 242–245

  Cuban Missile Crisis, 113

  as debutante, 25, 28, 79

  early estrangement from Jackie, 3–4, 7, 9–10, 46

  Gin Lane house and, 212–213, 238, 260

  at Harper’s Bazaar, 53

  on her father, 11, 12

  Hitchens and, 288–289

  interior design and, 62–65, 66, 101, 139–140

  interior design business of, 231–234, 239, 241, 242–243, 253

  International Best Dressed List and, 79–80

  interviews for CBS, 215–217

  on Jackie, 7–8, 16, 71–72, 127, 131

  Jackie differs from, 13–16, 24–25

  Jackie’s choices of couture and, 74–76

  Jackie’s illness, death, and funeral, 1, 267, 271–274

  Jackie’s increasing public popularity and, 88–91, 93–94

  Jackie’s job at Viking and, 231

  Jackie’s marriage to Onassis and, 165–166, 169, 171–173, 177–178, 199

  Jackie’s nickname for, 14

  Jackie’s White House years and, 72, 131

  Jackie’s will and, 1–2, 274–275

  Jacobson and, 82

  on Kennedy, 71

  Kennedy’s assassination and, 125–127, 129–130, 137–138, 192

  as last keeper of Bouvier flame, 293–294

  Légion d’honneur awarded to, 290

  at Miss Porter’s School, 7, 20, 21–22, 24–25, 29, 45, 140, 150

  as mother’s favorite,
16–17

  on mother’s memory of father, 264

  mother’s remarriage and, 19–21

  mother’s trust fund for, 262–263, 274

  Onassis and Jackie’s fourth anniversary party, 177–178

  Onassis’s death and, 115–120, 149, 210, 245

  parents’ divorce and, 3, 8–9, 18–19, 45

  personal documentary of, 203–205

  personality of, 12–14, 242, 282–283

  Radziwill’s affairs and, 73–74, 96, 114–115

  Radziwill’s death and, 235

  Radziwill’s marriage to, 60–66, 114–115, 180, 185–186, 199–200

  Radziwill’s title and, 62, 90

  Rolling Stones’ 1972 concert tour, 190–195

  Ross’s marriage to, 258–262, 279–282, 283

  at Sarah Lawrence College, 32, 52–53

  singing of, 43–44, 52, 150

  smoking and, 25

  speaking voice of, 28

  Steel Magnolias premier and, 280–282

  style and interests of, 2–3, 5–7, 9, 78–80, 287–296

  Tufo and, 237–240

  visual eye and knowledge of art history, 218–219

  Warhol’s Montauk cottage and, 186–187

  White House dinners given for, 76–77, 94–95

  White House visits of, 74–76

  works for Architectural Digest, 254

  works for Armani, 254, 260, 284

  see also Kennedy, John F., assassination of; travel, of Jackie and Lee

  Radziwill, Edmund, 180

  Radziwill, Stanislas “Stas,” 139, 178, 241

  background of, 60

  Capote’s Black and White Ball and, 147–148

  Cuban Missile Crisis, 113

  death of, 234–235

  declining finances of, 234, 235

  Jacobson and, 80–81

  Kennedy and, 71–72, 73, 78

  Kennedy’s assassination and, 125–127, 131, 136

  Lee’s acting jobs and, 149–150, 151, 154, 155

  Lee’s affair with, 60, 61

  Lee’s marriage to, 60–66, 180

  Lee’s marriage to ends, 114–115, 185–186, 199–200

  Nureyev and, 68

  Onassis and, 172

  Polish title and British citizenship, 61, 89, 90

  White House dinners given for, 76–77, 94–95

  White House visits of, 74–76, 103

  Reading Jackie (Kuhn), 228

  Real Housewives of New York City, 266, 267

  Reggie, Victoria, 272

  Rense, Paige, 233–234

  Richards, Keith, 192–193

  Richardson, Dr. Alan, 196–197

  Richardson, John, 246, 250

  Rizza, Signora Dalla, 43

  Rolling Stone magazine, 190–191, 194

  Rolling Stones, 205

  Lee and friends on 1972 concert tour with, 190–195

  Roosevelt, Franklin Jr., 95, 118

  Roosevelt, Suzanne, 118, 119

  Roosevelt, Theodore, 98

  Ross, Herbert David, 266, 273

  background of, 260–261

  death of, 282, 285

  marriage to Lee, 258–262

 

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