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marriage to Lee ends, 279–282, 283
Roussel, Athina (Onassis’s granddaughter), 211–212
Roussel, Thierry, 211–212
Rubin, Harriet, 236
Rucci, Ralph, 79, 154, 165, 241, 279, 285
Rusk, Martha, 38–39
Russian culture
Jackie and, 3, 9, 33, 46, 67, 224–226
Lee and, 3, 7, 9, 24, 46, 63–64
Saint Laurent, Yves, 150, 151
Salinger, Pierre, 95, 103, 134, 198
Sally Hemings: A Novel (Chase-Riboud), 224
Salyer, Dr. Kenneth, 122
Sarah Lawrence College, 32, 52–53
Sargent, John Sr., 229–230, 236
Schaffner, Franklin J., 101
Schiff, Dorothy, 160
Schlesinger, Arthur M. Jr., 72, 94, 95, 103, 112, 120, 168, 174
on Jackie, 83, 84, 85–86, 88, 210
Kennedy’s assassination and, 128
Vidal’s insult to Jackie in White House and, 95, 251
Schlesinger, Marian, 103
Schlossberg, Edwin, 255–258, 272
Schlossberg, Rose, 262, 264
Schon, Mila, 147
Schonberg, Harold C., 214
Schwarzenegger, Arnold, 255
Scott, Aaron, 204
Seferis, George, 221–222
Seinfeld, Jerry, 282
Seymour, Lynn, 69
Shall We Tell the President? (Archer), 229
Shriver, Eunice and Sargent, 272
Shriver, Maria, 255
Sifton, Elisabeth, 224
Simon, Carly, 231, 257, 272
Simon, Neil, 252
Simpson, Wallis (Duchess of Windsor), 228
Sinatra, Frank, 147, 228
Singleton, Becky, 229
Smith, Jean Kennedy, 129, 141, 168
Smith, Liz, 248–249, 251–252
Smith, Sally Bedell, 20–21
Smith, Stephen, 141
Smith, Willi, 255
Snowdon, Lord Anthony, 228
Solway, Diane, 67, 69
Sontag, Susan, 226
Sorel, Edward, 248
Soulé, Henri, 248
South, Hamilton, 285, 293
Spalding, Charles “Chuck,” 80, 136
Spencer, Abigail, 290
Stapleton, Maureen, 155
Stark, Ray, 259, 280, 281
Steel Magnolias (Ross film), 258–259, 280–282
Steinem, Gloria, 227
Stern, Bert, 153
Stolley, Richard, 124
Stringfellow, Ethel Gray, 23
Styron, William and Rose, 231
Susskind, David, 153, 154
Swanson, Gloria, 163
Symington, James, 61
Talley, André Leon, on Lee, 6, 7, 8, 63, 79–80, 290
Tempelsman, Lily, 246
Tempelsman, Maurice, 244–246, 256, 261, 267, 270, 271, 277
Theodoracopulos, Taki, 217
This Side of Paradise (documentary), 203–205
Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House, A (Schlesinger), 83
Thring, Joan, 68, 70, 161
Thyssen-Bornemisza, Fiona von, 197
Tiegs, Cheryl, 178–179
Tierney, Gene, 153
Time magazine, 90, 92, 101–102, 114, 154, 229
Times to Remember (Rose Kennedy), 163
Train, Aileen Bowdoin, 18
travel, of Jackie and Lee
to Antigua, 136
to Europe, 31–48, 82–88, 105, 109–111, 218
to Greece, 91–93, 104, 118–120
to India and Pakistan, 6, 105–109, 153
to Ireland, 152–154
to Palm Beach, 74, 77–78, 81, 94, 105, 131, 214
Trescher, George, 257
Tuckerman, Nancy, 22–23, 129, 229
Jackie’s illness and, 271
Jackie’s marriage to Onassis and, 166, 167, 181
Jackie’s move to New York City and, 140, 141
Tufo, Peter, 237–240
Turnure, Pamela, 84, 87, 101, 141
Turville Grange (Radziwill country home), 62–63, 68, 70, 149, 172, 186, 200, 204, 235
Twist (dance), 95, 107
Two Sisters (Vidal), 227
Tyrnauer, Matt, 207
Valentino, 169
Vanderbilt, Gloria, 191, 248, 250
Vanity Fair, 225, 258, 267
Vanocur, Sander, 159
Vassar, Jackie at, 27, 28–29, 76, 84
Vernou, Louise (great-grandmother), 36
Vidal, Gore, 46, 227, 261
on Bouvier, 11, 56
on Canfield, 53–54, 275
Capote and, 142, 244, 245, 253
on Hugh Auchincloss, 20
insulted Jackie at White House, 95, 251
on Jackie, 2, 83
Jackie and, 74, 94, 95–96, 152
on Jackie and Lee, 7, 26
on Onassis, 158
Vidal, Nina (later Auchincloss), 7, 245
Viking, Jackie as editor at, 222–229
“Visiting Nureyev’s Grave” (Frigerio), 265
Vogue
Jackie and, 32–35, 41, 93
Lee and, 60, 64, 143, 153
Vreeland, Diana, 53, 75, 80, 153, 224–225, 237, 284, 289
Waldrop, Frank, 49–52
Walker, John, 100
Walters, Barbara
on Jackie and Lee, 9–10
on Lee, 52–53, 105, 108
Lee on, 216
Warhol, Andy, 8, 186–187, 194, 207, 212, 218, 268
Warnecke, John Carl, 233, 234
Warren, Whitney, 239, 243
Warren Commission, 124
Washington Times-Herald, Jackie as “Inquiring Cameragirl” for, 49–52, 55, 97, 223
Wear, Priscilla, 96–97
Weckert, Christine, 235
Weicker, Mrs. Lowell, 140
Wenner, Jan, 191
Wexler, Jerrold, 268
What Remains (Radziwill), 276
White, Theodore H., 133–134
White House
Jackie’s redecoration of, 97–101
Jackie’s television tour of, 101–104
Lee and Radziwill visit, 74–77, 94–95, 103
Wicker, Tom, 137
Wilde, Oscar, 15, 33
Williams, Mona Harrison, 248
Wilson, Edmund, 168
Wilson, Woodrow, 98
Winners and Losers (Emerson), 177–178
Wohlfert, Lee, 234
Women’s Wear Daily, 146, 181
Woodword, Ann, 248
Wrightsman, Charlie, 77–78, 94
Wrightsman, Jayne, 77–78, 94, 100, 140
You Can’t Take It with You (Kaufman and Hart), 27, 30, 150
Zapruder, Abraham, 123–124
Zaroulis, Nancy, 224
Zelman, Sam, 217
Zvorykin, Boris, 224, 225
Photo Section
John “Black Jack” V. Bouvier III. Jackie and Lee’s father lost his fortune and his wife, but his two daughters loved him till the end. “Style is a habit of mind . . . it’s what makes you a Bouvier,” he once said, which both daughters took to heart. 1930. Photo credit: Getty Images
The Auchinclosses. Janet with her new husband, Hugh D. Auchincloss. Jackie [l., back row] and Lee [r., middle row] were plunged into a new life and a new family with three Auchincloss stepsiblings: Hugh (Yusha), Nina, and Thomas. Janet holds her newborn, also named Janet, and they would have a son, James. Photo credit: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
Jackie with her father, “Black Jack” Bouvier, who was at this point living in somewhat reduced circumstances and missing his daughters. East Hampton, July 23, 1947. Photo credit: Getty Images
Jackie and Lee in ball gowns, photographed by Cecil Beaton for Vogue. Both sisters were named “Debutante of the Year”—Jackie in 1948 and Lee in 1951—by society columnist Cholly Knickerbocker (Igor Cassini). 1951. Photo credit: Cecil Beaton/Getty Images
Michael Canfield, Lee’s first husband,
rumored to be the illegitimate son of the Duke of Kent. She dated the adopted publishing scion from the age of fifteen. At twenty, Lee was the first to marry, but the union only lasted six years. Pictured here with Jackie. Photo credit: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
Photo booth snapshot of Jackie and her husband, Senator John F. Kennedy, possibly taken during their honeymoon in Acapulco and Beverly Hills in 1953. Photo credit: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
Lee with her second husband, Prince Stanislaw (Stas) Radziwill, whom she married in 1959. Her mother said, “Why, he is nothing but a European version of your father,” which delighted Lee. He was twenty years her senior, and they would have two children, Anthony and Anna Christina (Tina). Photo credit: Getty Images
Jackie’s brief three and a half years as First Lady brought her closer to Lee. The Kennedys and the Radziwills spent holidays together, and Lee and Stas Radziwill were frequent guests of honor at the White House. Jackie with German shepherd Clipper, Lee, and the Radziwills’ daughter, Tina. January 1963. Photo credit: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
Turville Grange, Lee and Stas Radziwill’s eighteenth-century country estate in Oxfordshire, which Lee transformed into a magnificent retreat. Nureyev described Lee’s homes as “two of the prettiest houses in England.” Photo credit: Alamy
Jackie appeared on the cover of LIFE more than thirty times. In 1961, she embarked on an ambitious restoration of “The People’s House,” with superb and historically accurate results. Her uncluttered, elegant style influenced a generation of women, bringing them out of the kitschy 1950s. Cover photo: © Mark Shaw/mptvimages.com Photo credit: Getty Images
President Kennedy asked Jackie to make a diplomatic trip to India and Pakistan, and Jackie brought Lee along as her closest companion. The trip was a spectacular success, with thousands turning out to cheer “America’s Queen” and her “lady in waiting.” Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, March 1962. Photo credit: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
Lee with her daughter, Tina, in the sumptuous drawing room at her London house at 4 Buckingham Place. She worked closely with the designer Renzo Mongiardino to achieve a richly layered, nineteenth-century décor. She would later be drawn to an airier, more minimalist style. Photo credit: Cecil Beaton Studio Archive/Sotheby’s Picture Library
Presidential Library
With Jackie’s help, Lee sought an annulment of her marriage to Michael Canfield, so her civil marriage with Radziwill could be sanctified in the Roman Catholic Church. Jackie looks serene and unknowable, as always. Lee looks distraught. At the Basilica of Saint Petrus, Rome, 1961. Photo credit: Alamy
While living in London, Lee began her lifelong, passionate friendship with Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev, pictured here in snake-skin jacket and boots. Both shared a love of living grandly in baroque style. Lee and Jackie had what Truman Capote described as “the sense of the right to luxury.”
Photo credit: Alamy
Lee invited Jackie to join her on a summer vacation in Ravello, Italy, the “jewel of the Amalfi coast.” She and Stas rented a beautiful cliff-side villa that overlooked the Gulf of Naples. Jackie’s Secret Service detail and flocks of paparazzi were the only things that marred their idyllic seclusion. 1962. Photo credit: Benno Graziani/Photo12
Lee with shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis, at the beginning of their affair. “Ari was charismatic,” she said, but the Kennedys asked her to end the relationship, worried about John F. Kennedy’s upcoming re-election. 1961. Photo credit: Getty Images
Jackie and Robert F. Kennedy, mourning the death of President Kennedy. Jackie planned the obsequies along the lines of Abraham Lincoln’s state funeral. Jackie’s regal, veiled dignity elevated her to the iconic status of America’s First Widow. November 25, 1963. Photo credit: Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images
A luminous Lee on the cover of LIFE on the occasion of her debut performance as Tracy Lord in The Philadelphia Story, as orchestrated by Truman Capote. “Principessa, you must go on the stage!” he insisted. July 1967. Photo credit: Pierre Boulat, Getty Images.
Lee with Truman Capote at the Black and White Ball. It was a genuine friendship until his drinking, prescription drug abuse, and a feud with Gore Vidal put an end to it. Photo credit: Getty Images
Onassis with his longtime mistress, the opera diva Maria Callas. An American-born Greek, Callas was married to Giovanni Meneghini, but her affair with “Aristo” was an open secret, and the two shared an intense emotional bond. She hated Lee and was devastated when Onassis married Jackie. Photo credit: Getty Images
Jackie wed Onassis on October 20, 1968, on Skorpios, Ari’s private Greek island, upsetting many Kennedy loyalists and Americans who idolized Jackie. Ironically, many in Greece considered her the interloper and Maria Callas the rightful wife. Photo credit: Getty Images
Jackie and Onassis in Capri. Like Lee, Jackie loved the Mediterranean and Greek culture, and she was very happy with the safety and security of her marriage in its early years. Photo credit: Settimio Garritano
Jackie introduced Lee to the dashing photographer, adventurer, and conservationist Peter Beard, whom she invited to Skorpios to give Caroline and John Jr. art lessons.
Photo credit: Ron Galella/Getty Images
After Onassis’s death in 1975, Jackie began a relationship with the diamond executive Maurice Tempelsman. When asked what Kennedy, Onassis, and Tempelsman had in common, Lee answered, “success.” The couple shared a love of books and French culture. Photo credit: Getty Images Presidential Library
Jackie at work in her office at Viking Press in 1975, as a consulting editor. She moved to Doubleday two years later.
Photo credit: Getty Images
Lee with her son, Anthony Radziwill. Photo credit: Jodie Burstein/Globe Photos LLC Presidential Library
Lee with the A-list film director Herbert Ross, whom she married in 1988. He brought her the glamour of Hollywood; she delighted in his wit and style. Their thirteen-year marriage didn’t survive the devastating loss of her son, Anthony, who died of cancer at the age of forty. Photo credit: Getty Images
Jackie passed away in 1994 at the age of sixty-four, from non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The world noted her passing, and throngs kept vigil outside of her Fifth Avenue apartment. Jackie’s will left generous bequeaths to all of her family members except Lee. Photo credit: Getty Images
On July 16, 1999, John F. Kennedy Jr.’s small plane plunged into the Atlantic, killing him and his new bride, Carolyn Bessette, and her sister, Lauren. Jackie was spared this cruel tragedy, reminiscent of the death of Onassis’s son, Alexander. Photo credit: Getty Images
About the Authors
SAM KASHNER is the author of the comic novel Sinatraland and four nonfiction books, including the acclaimed memoir When I Was Cool. He has written extensively for Vanity Fair.
NANCY SCHOENBERGER is the author of Dangerous Muse: The Life of Lady Caroline Blackwood; Wayne and Ford: The Films, the Friendship, and the Forging of an American Hero; and coauthor with Sam Kashner of Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century. She has published three award-winning books of poetry and directs the creative writing program at the College of William & Mary.
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