After JFKs death and the subsequent assassination of Robert Kennedy, Jackie needed protection beyond what the Secret Service could provide for her and her young children, and she also needed a well-financed husband to support her in style. The life she's led was all about that kind of thing. Calm it down, calm it down.". Mellon, who passed away in 2014 at 103, was famously known for her significantly designed gardens, including her most heralded 1962 creation of the White In going through her papers in the months after her death, I found that she had wrapped many important keepsakes, such as gifts from her Grandpa Lowe, in white paper and tied them up with a blue ribbon, using the two colors as signals to show how precious the things were to her. Small wonder that Bunny and Jackie Kennedy, introduced in 1957, would become confidantes. Her art collection included a Rothko reportedly worth $125 million. Sometimes Jackie became Bunnys advisor. In May 2000, Bunny's daughter from her first marriage, Eliza Lloyd, was crossing the street in Manhattan when she was hit by a truck, suffering a severe brain injury. . Instead, they were subtly made to complete a special sense of place. [2][3] Her paternal grandfather, chemist Jordan Lambert, was the inventor of Listerine, which was later marketed by her father. Indeed. 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For Bunnys 69th, Jackie gave her an illustrated edition of Emily Dickinsons poems. She wanted visitors to her own gardens and the gardens she designed for others to feel transported to another world. Thanks for contacting us. The estate also holds a boathouse and a garage. After his death in 1975, it was probably no accident that Jackie turned to Bunnys lawyer, Alexander Forger, to secure $200 million, far more than Onassis had Shes a remarkable person, said her friend, interior designer Bryan Huffman of North Carolina. This could have made for a grim existence. She had a son, Stacy Barcroft Lloyd III, and two step-children, Timothy Mellon and Catherine Warner. She had endured worse, including the 2008 death of her daughter Eliza, who had been left quadriplegic when hit by a car years earlier. Late heiress Rachel Bunny Mellon s Antigua property is up for sale for $25 million, making it one of the most expensive pieces of land in the Caribbean. Sally Bedell Smith quotes Jackie as telling a journalist right after the election that she would describe Jack as rather like me in that his life is an iceberg. After nearly four months on the market for the listing price of $19.8 million the Osterville, Massachusetts, estate, whichincluded some of the last gardens designed by Mellon, found a buyer. She soon began to support him with an increasing number of campaign contributions. Bunny Mellon has outlived most of her intimates. This story has been shared 209,091 times. A giver of parties and designer of landscapes brimming with imagination and magic, she herself tended to the expressionless and forbidding, a society figure with an almost pathological dislike for publicity, who loved coming home from galas to water the plants at night. Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. With love and inexpressible gratitude for all the joy and help you have always given me. . No better armor than a watchful friend: Bunny Mellon quietly walks with Jackie Kennedy from Martin Luther King, Jr.s funeral at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, 1968. However, her best and dearest families were made up of friends who shared her passions and tastes. I remember my earliest summer memories swimming off the dock of the house. .css-1du65oy{color:#323232;display:block;font-family:NewParis,Georgia,Times,serif;font-weight:normal;margin-bottom:0.3125rem;margin-top:0;-webkit-text-decoration:none;text-decoration:none;-webkit-font-smoothing:auto;}@media (any-hover: hover){.css-1du65oy:hover{color:link-hover;}}@media(max-width: 48rem){.css-1du65oy{font-size:1.0625rem;line-height:1.2;}}@media(min-width: 40.625rem){.css-1du65oy{font-size:1.0625rem;line-height:1.2;}}@media(min-width: 64rem){.css-1du65oy{font-size:1.3125rem;line-height:1.2;}}Jackie Kennedy and Queen Elizabeth's Relationship, Julianne Moore's Kennedy-Inspired Met Gala Gown, See a Vintage Photo of Jackie and the Queen, Lee Radziwill's Doomed Dreams of Movie Stardom, JFK & Jackie Kennedy's Wedding Day, in Photos, Meet Jackie Kennedy's Unexpected Honeymoon Guest, Inside The Home Where Jackie O First Rode Horses, Jackie Kennedy's Role in Barbra Streisand's Memoir, Jackie Kennedy's Visit to the Nixon White House. Mac Griswold says, "I think her view is that he's a cute guy and he's allowed to fool around if he likes. 1533before 1588) A Young Daughter of the Picts, ca. Bunny and Jackie often turned to each other when they were depressed: Jackie wrote to Bunny in 1976 that she wanted to have a little boat and learn how to sail so she could anchor off Oyster Harbors. Mellon was the second wife of philanthropist and horse breeder Paul Mellon. Rachel Bunny Mellon was born 110 years ago on August 9th in New York, NY. Gordon, a veteran journalist, is the author ofMrs. Her appetite for prestige, although ever discreet, only increased with her second marriage, to Mellon, in 1948. At the time, what kept most of us from seeing the dowdiness was the luster of glamour conveyed by Jackies trim, big-shouldered, athletic figure and then, in rapid hindsight, the burnished armor of tragedy. Mellon died of natural causes at her 4,000-acre estate in Upperville, Va., her lawyer told The New York Times. We've received your submission. In 2004 in the opening essay for the Metropolitan Museums exhibition Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., who was Jackies friend and ally, wrote that underneath a veil of lovely inconsequence she developed a cool assessment of people and an ironical slant on life. Bunny was a society figure with an almost pathological dislike for publicity, a trait she shared with her husband. The Strange Promise of a Genuine Squirrel Coat. She next began to work on the White House's East Garden, but her work was interrupted by Kennedy's assassination. [25], On November 10, 2014, items from Mellon's collection of paintings, jewelry, furniture, and decorative objects were auctioned at Sotheby's in New York for a total of $158.7 million, including Untitled (Yellow, Orange, Yellow, Light Orange) by Rothko, which sold for $36.5 million, and another Rothko that went for $39.9 million. A key issue: did Edwards solicit the money to salvage his presidential campaign, or was this an attempt to prevent is cancer-stricken wife, Elizabeth, from learning of the romance? They often painted together on Cape Cod: in the Garden Library at the bottom of stairs to Bunnys study hangs a summery watercolor of a pale blue hydrangea in a pot. I agreed but said, But she had to dress for Peoria. Wendy, who knew Jackie well, shot back, She didnt know there was a Peoria.. Tales straight out of A Thousand and One Nights, some true, some apocryphal, gathered around the pair and their friendship. She found both in Aristotle Onassis. They had two children: Stacy Barcroft Lloyd III, and Eliza Winn Lloyd. Although she grew up in a world where horses were thoroughbreds, society was glittering, and marriage was eventually to Paul Mellon, as fellow decorator Bunny Williams put it, she was no Brooke Astor, entertaining twenty-four for dinner three nights a week, but, rather, a sculptor, sculpting space She created an American vision of English country house style.. Jackie found a parent who suited her better than her own mother, the socialite Janet Lee Bouvier Auchincloss, while Bunny gained a daughter very different from Eliza. She classed her deception as fun, and with a Why not? air she dismissed Edwardss infidelity to a dying wife as the sort of thing one might expect from an attractive man like him. Jackie Onassis, 19 years her junior, died in 1994; Paul Mellon died five years later after a lingering illness. She is without the trappings someone would associate with an heiress.. Rachel Lambert Mellon (affectionately nicknamed Bunny) was the heiress to a mouthwash fortune. Wendy Gimbel, a biographer, critic, and redoubtable interpreter of the meaning of fashion, remarked that the clothes in the 2002 Metropolitan Museums Costume Institute show, Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years, were dowdy. She and Paul Mellon supported many philanthropic endeavors, but were also known to indulge. The True Story of Jackie & Bunny's Friendship, Randall Hagadorn / Courtesy of Gerard B. Lambert III, Mark Shaw Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis Personal Papers John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images, Jackie Kennedy and Queen Elizabeth's Relationship, Your Privacy Choices: Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads. Bunny Mellon, ne Rachel Lowe Lambert, was not just a social figure. Beginning in May 2007, Mellon contributed more than $725,000 to John Edwards' personal accounts over an eight-month period, writing checks disguised as furniture purchases. These properties were sold in the years preceding her death. Jackie and Bunny sometimes looked for happiness together on real estate adventures, finding the escape they dreamed of. They reportedly had homes in Antigua, Paris, New York, Washington, Nantucket and Cape Cod, and a mile-long runway for their private jet. When she was around 5 years old, her father let her have a little garden at home, planting the seed for her lifelong love of horticulture, he said. "I'm going along on very weak wheels." [17][10], Mellon designed landscapes for many of the Mellons' properties, including the French-inspired gardens of their estate, Oak Spring Farms. She is not afraid to face the future. She was 103. Stressing that her sympathies have always been with Edwards rather than his wife, who died last year from cancer, she confides, "You know that John had a hard time with Elizabeth." "I have to tell you, my dear, I hate publicity," said Rachel "Bunny" Mellon. As an adult, her fluency with pencil and ink led her to illustrate her letters, underlining the emotions they expressed. In a 2010 interview, she spoke of having purchased a total of thirteen works by Rothko. In March her longtime investment adviser Ken Starr received a seven-and-a-half-year jail sentence for running a Ponzi scheme and stealing $33 million from clients, including $5.75 million from Mellon and $3 million from her son Stacey Lloyd III. Like her billionaire philanthropist husband, Paul Mellon, and This was the first time that Bunny clearly laid out her conviction that Schlumberger should be treated as an artist, not just a fashionable jewelry designer. Ill Build a Stairway to Paradise spans the full 103 years of Bunny Mellons life. The following month, Mellon's lawyer told the Manhattan District Attorney's office that the transfer was never requested nor approved, the complaint says. That was the best part. They were friends with the Kennedys and entertained Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles. ", Her solace was her gardens, and she took enormous pleasure in designing gardens for herself and friends. "'Just think!'" Until she neared 100 she practiced pilates daily, which she learned from the master Joseph Pilates in the 1950s. Every item on this page was chosen by a townandcountrymag editor. It is a way to help our friend without government restrictions.'?" [10][24] The painting measured 10 by 15 feet. She was not looking for an ambassadorial appointment, Huffman said. The doyenne of high society is the widow of Paul Mellon, a billionaire art patron and racehorse breeder. [7] Her parents divorced in 1933, and both subsequently remarried. While .css-gegin5{-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-thickness:0.0625rem;text-decoration-color:inherit;text-underline-offset:0.25rem;color:#9a0500;-webkit-transition:all 0.3s ease-in-out;transition:all 0.3s ease-in-out;}.css-gegin5:hover{color:#595959;text-decoration-color:border-link-body-hover;}Bunny was coming to grips with the changes in her marriage, she met the woman who would become her best friend, Jackie Kennedy, wife of the dashing junior senator from Massachusetts. All rights reserved. Breaking New Ground in Womens Paths to Fulfillment: A Conversation with Ruthellen Josselson. Mellon lived a closely guarded life dominated by the arts, fashion, horses, rare books and extraordinary gardens. What extravagance, breathed Jackie, or so the story goes. The DNAinfo archives brought to you by WNYC.Read the press release here. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Thanks for contacting us. "She is just shocked.". "Jackie Kennedy Onassis and I were the best of friends," Mellon recalls, her voice wistful in memory. Outspoken: Bunny Mellon (left) is seen here with her stepdaughter Eliza Lloyd in 1964. [31] During this period Mellon wrote a note to Young stating: "from now on, all haircuts, etc. From Tuxedo Park to Virginia to the White House, Griswold escorts us through Mellons life as we meet icons of culture, fashion, and politics: Queen Elizabeth and Jackie Kennedy, Givenchy and Balenciaga, JFK and I.M. "She called and invited me to lunch.". Mellons attorney said she had no idea the money was going to hide a mistress. 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A reclusive banking heiress who gave $725,000 to John Edwards that was used to conceal his affair with a former campaign aide is finally speaking out about the scandal. Astor Regrets. MANHATTAN Listerine heiress and philanthropist Rachel 'Bunny' Mellon has preferred to shun the media spotlight since long before her financial largesse became tangled up in the John Edwards mistress scandal. She was eulogized by her friend Frank Langella, who described himself as "a rough Jersey kid" whom Mellon taught "how to listen, dress, never be vulgar, respect all people, be humble, avoid hubris, write thank-you notes, never boast, be curious and 'above all, be loyal'". We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. After spending most of her life trying to avoid the spotlight, she was thrust into it when Edwards was indicted in 2011 for using what prosecutors alleged was campaign money, including $750,000 from Mellon, to hide mistress Rielle Hunter and their child during Edwards 2008 Democratic presidential bid. [10] In 2004, she expressed interest in presidential candidate John Edwards because he reminded her of President Kennedy, but when she called his campaign office with an offer to help, her name was not recognized and the call went unreturned. I can't write, but I dictate, I talk to people. "I don't think she's been gullible." Ill Build a Stairway to Paradise by Mac Griswold (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) is available online and in stores now. "He would have been a great president," insists Mellon, who has been interviewed by the FBI but is not expected to testify. My grandmother began a multi-year renovation of the main house beginning in 1978, Lloyd told House Beautiful. Between all buildings are eight separate fireplaces. The two women often celebrated their summer birthdays together. Every choice of a color was eloquent. Both women shared a profound belief in the absolute ability of style to carry real meaning. The two shared a childlike imagination and enthusiasm that, as Jackie herself said, seems to flicker out in so many adults. J. Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. Style included a great deal more than the cut of clothing or a period of interior decoration. She designed the guest house specifically for my two older half-sisters.. "I may not be here a year from now," she tells me. Most distressing is her loss of vision. [11] Her work was strongly influenced by French gardeners Andr Le Ntre and Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie. Mellon's family and her longtime personal attorney said she died of natural causes at her beloved 4,000-acre Oak Spring Farms in Virginia's horse country, where she Ill Build a Stairway to Paradise spans the full 103 years of The estate includes a central chimney house with a passageway to where occupants could safely hide, which many assume was during King Phillips war, according to the listing. MANHATTAN Listerine heiress and philanthropist Rachel 'Bunny' Mellon has preferred to shun the media spotlight since long before her financial largesse became A well-groomed young woman is trailing her, but Mellon seems miraculously able for a 99-year-old. As far as we know, their intention is to keep it as the historic property it is and has always been, Crocker told the Cape Cod Times. When Jackie Kennedy decided to revive the grounds surrounding the White House, she reached out to her friend and horticulturalist Rachel Bunny Mellon to carry out the redesign. 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