She was 103. Mellon was not accused of breaking any laws. I have so much to do.". [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. "It's been like falling down the rabbit hole with Alice in Wonderland," says Huffman, who rues introducing the heiress to the senator. 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. Copyright 2009-2018, DNAinfo. According to the indictment, Edwards and his aide Andrew Young asked her for personal cash for the senator. Every choice of a color was eloquent. "They were on the same wavelength," says one of Isabell's friends. I don't mind being 100, I can cope with that, but not seeing is very scary." [30]:157 She was an early financier of Edwards' 2008 Democratic primary run, offering an initial US$1 million commitment to his campaign, and eventually contributing more than $3.5 million to organizations supporting his candidacy. 1533before 1588) A Young Daughter of the Picts, ca. Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. On June 3, 2011, Edwards was indicted on using campaign funds to help cover up an affair and pregnancy during the 2008 presidential campaign. 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. "It's a crush." She was a poor Bouvier, by the standards of the society in which she moved. Rendered a paraplegic and unable to speak, Eliza was transported to her mother's farm for round-the-clock care, surviving for eight years. Rachel Lambert Mellon (August 9, 1910 March 17, 2014), often known as Bunny Mellon, was an American horticulturalist, gardener, philanthropist, and art collector. While Mellon is leaving bequests to her family, the bulk of her estate will go to a foundation, financing a library and school for arborists. The estate also holds a boathouse and a garage. One small but bracing example that Bunny related to me was about the renowned poet Robert Lowell, who ran into the two women one afternoon Bunny didnt say whereand asked, Could I have dinner with you girls? clearly imagining that of course they would want to do so, as almost anyone else might have. All Rights Reserved. The historian William Seale, a longtime observer of Executive Mansion occupants in his post at the White House Historical Association, remarked, Jackie didnt have money. The Fall of Feminism: Jessa Crispins Why I Am Not A Feminist. You cant let it get to you, because you shouldnt take it personally.), Bunny, 19 years older than Jackie, could take on the role of teacher and exemplar at one moment and then shift to become the cozy, sympathetic friend to whom Jackie poured out her heart. She was involved in the business of nature and beauty, design and implementation, Forger said. A self-taught botanist, Mellon was tapped by her friend Jacqueline Kennedy to design the White House Rose Garden. Caroline Kennedy, daughter of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, sat beside Mrs. Mellon during the funeral. "If you are 100 years old, you get to like who you like," says gardening writer Mac Griswold, Mellon's friend for a half century. Mellons attorney said she had no idea the money was going to hide a mistress. You are a poet like Emily Dickinson in your gardens, in your houses, in the way you see nature and all of life. One of her grandfathers, chemist Jordan Lambert, invented Listerine, but it was her father, Gerard Lambert, an advertising innovator, who turned it into a hit product by marketing the antiseptic as a cure for halitosis. Bunny poured her nesting urge into the creation of many perfect houses for Paul and the children. With Jackie in the White House, Bunny was again happily engaged with the glamour of politics, something shed once enjoyed while sitting on Calvin Coolidges lap as a child. Even though her closets contained racks of magnificent Givenchy and Balenciaga couture, she wanted to be buried wearing the simple college graduation gown that she had worn to receive an honorary degree from the Rhode Island School of Design. Between all buildings are eight separate fireplaces. The last standing true American aristocrat.. Friends said Mellon should be remembered more for her contributions to the world of horticulture, art and fashion than the scandal that marked her last years. They would talk about flowers for hours, mesmerized by one another's company. 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. [8] He served in the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. She contributed more than $3.5 million to Edwards's issues organization and to PACs supporting his candidacy. Her interests in gardening were first cultivated while watching Olmsted Brothers gardeners tend her family's New Jersey home. They could move, manipulate, and cutwith finality. Huffman said his friend remained in good spirits despite the Edwards distraction. As the second wife of financier Paul Mellon, she helped him amass a renowned art collection, hundreds of works ranging from Czannes to Rothkos, either donated to the National Gallery in Washington or still hanging on her walls. 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. she told a friend after the visit from the feds, Daily Beast reported. [4][30]:158, At the request of campaign operative Andrew Young, the commitment morphed to include underwriting Edwards' personal expenses. Through it all, she never sought publicity. "She is just shocked.". She next began to work on the White House's East Garden, but her work was interrupted by Kennedy's assassination. Thats the story. Novelist Jane Stanton Hitchcock, who with her mother, Joan Alexander, alerted authorities to Starr's scam, explains, "The Mellons were the gold standard of integrity, and my parents felt that Ken would live up to their trust. Rachel Lowe Lambert Lloyd Mellons mother gave her the pet name, Bunny, which stuck with her throughout her life, Huffman said. [10][24] The painting measured 10 by 15 feet. Lloyd, who was questioned by the grand jury about whether she was coerced, says with a laugh, "You can't tell my grandmother what to do. Mellon lived a closely guarded life dominated by the arts, fashion, horses, rare books and extraordinary gardens. The following month, Mellon's lawyer told the Manhattan District Attorney's office that the transfer was never requested nor approved, the complaint says. JFK had just published Profiles in Courage, a volume of studies of senatorial political bravery that had won the 1957 Pulitzer Prize and would help him in his run for the presidency.They met in 1958 when Adele Astaire Douglass, an old friend of Bunny and Pauls and then a Virginia neighbor, brought her guest Jackie to Oak Spring for tea not long after the birth of her daughter, Caroline. The 35-year-old Lloyd, a Washington investment adviser, adds, "As I explained to the jury, imagine a very handsome man who is well liked and respected, and there are two women vying for his affections.". She says she was drawn to him by "his very deep intelligence. She is famously camera-shy and keeps a residence in the Jumeirah Essex House on Central Park South and an estate in Upperville Virginia, where she reportedly became fond of then-first-time presidential candidate John Edwards in 2006. Mellon, who passed away in 2014 at 103, was famously known for her significantlydesigned gardens, including her most heralded 1962 creation of the White House Rose Garden. Mellon has not been accused of wrongdoing (she even paid gift taxes), but Edwards was indicted in June for violating campaign-finance laws. Zenas Crocker of Robet Paul Properties held the listing. [22], She maintained homes in Antigua, Nantucket and Oyster Harbors, Cape Cod, two apartments in Paris, and a townhouse in New York City. Im not sadnot really . Be kind. 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. Both women shared a profound belief in the absolute ability of style to carry real meaning. Jackie, on the other hand, was an outright celebrity, and she quickly gained a new kind of celebrityor notorietywhen she married Aristotle Onassis. Mellon also was known for her exquisite taste both in fashion and in decorating. Bunnys actual reimmersion in politics had come in November 1960 in the presidential election, when she voted as a Virginian for Kennedy, although she apparently didnt change her party affiliation and become a Democrat until she met Richard Nixon in 1972. It is a way to help our friend without government restrictions. Bunnys daughter eliza, bunny mellon, and jackie kennedy sit at breakfast at kings leap, antigua. A previous auction of Mellon possessions brought in $218.1 million in 2014 for the Gerard B. Lambert Foundation. In October 1946, as the Mellons were riding home together after fox hunting, Paul's wife, Mary, suffered a severe asthma attack, dying hours later. The Kennedys were aghast at her unwillingness to cultivate her myth as JFKs widow and even more upset that she would marry a Greek shipping magnate, Bunny told me. WebIn 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. As society bandleader Peter Duchin says, "Bunny is a person with wonderful taste. Additionally, she added a guest house (referred to as the childrens barn), herb garden, vegetable garden and main formal garden. 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. Then her daughter was fatally hit in a car accident, and she threw herself even deeper into her career. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Travel + Leisure. Even as a child, Bunny had depicted her surroundings in sketches and paintings. Every item on this page was chosen by a townandcountrymag editor. ", The events of the past five yearsthe death of her daughter, Ken Starr's betrayal, the indictment of Edwardsmight leave less hardy souls reaching for Prozac. John Edwards turned away from Bunny Mellon's memorial by her family | Daily Mail Online. Her wardrobe was created by Spanish designer Cristbal Balenciaga until he retired, at which time French designer Hubert de Givenchy took over fashioning everything she wore, according to a 2010 Vanity Fair article. However, her best and dearest families were made up of friends who shared her passions and tastes. 20 (Yellow Expanse), completed in 1955 was considered one of the largest Rothko works in private hands. 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. She described that trip to a friend, who told me: "Paul and Bunny slept apartShe was very funny about it. According to Bunny, Jackie said coolly, Absolutely not. Lowell then said, Well, what are you going to do? Jackie answered him by saying, Well, weve got it all planned, and that was that.. They divorced in 1948. 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved, Lisa Marie Presley was never the same after sons suicide in new home, James Cordens abandoned mansion heads a step closer to demolition, Hugh Jackman puts his dream minimalist Hamptons home up for rent, Barbara Walters daughter sold her Fla. getaway after dementia diagnosis. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. in 2005. With only a high school education, she frequently had to play catch-up in the sophisticated circles in which she moved, often cultivating powerful men to achieve her goals. Her days of pruning in the garden are over, but she still swims and does Pilates. Rendered a He claims, "Bunny and I were the last people on earth who knew about the girlfriend and the baby. Ill Build a Stairway to Paradise spans the full 103 years of Bunny Mellons life. All Rights Reserved. Every time he'd go on a debate against Hillary, he'd call and we'd talkI was so surprised when this thing came up." She attended Foxcroft, a northern Virginia boarding school. The Los Angeles Review of Books is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and disseminating rigorous, incisive, and engaging writing on every aspect of literature, culture, and the arts. [15], Described as a resilient centenarian, a bout with cancer[35] and ongoing macular degeneration nonetheless slowed her activity. Most of her modern-art collection will be sold, along with three quarters of the acreage of the farm. One of the works, No. Together, the couple collected and donated more than a thousand works of art, mostly eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European paintings, to the National Gallery of Art and established the Yale Center for British Art. She was also a great landscape and interior designer at the intersection of history and style. "Bunny gave him validation, after all those ass-kissing socialites who mistreated him. Her close friendship with Bunny would give her the privacy, affection, and depth of understanding to help bear the weight of that armor. Jackie wore hers so often that the press dubbed them Jackie bracelets. But was a paint box filled with rubies, sapphires, and emeralds instead of pigments another Bunny gift? .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. One weekend in June, she beamed as her 3-year-old great-granddaughter, Fiona, put stickers all over her arms. "He's done a very good job of maintaining the sense that 'Bunny, I want to be your friend; Bunny, feel sorry for me in this predicament, we'll get through this together,'" says Lloyd. The Feminist Uses of Narrative Fiction: Jill Filipovics The H-Spot and the Search for Womens Happiness. Ever since she married Paul Mellon in 1948, she has been consumed by turning his Virginia farm into a magnificent showcase. 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 [34] Following his indictment, the judge forbade Edwards to speak with any potential witnesses. The two women managed to make light of the issues in their own difficult marriages: Pauls relationship with Dorcas Hardin, and JFKs omnivorous promiscuity. MANHATTAN Listerine heiress and philanthropist Rachel 'Bunny' Mellon has preferred to shun the media spotlight since long before her financial largesse became He warned her that she should shun celebrity and stick to becoming a myth. Griswold has mined Bunny Mellons personal archives for journal entries, poems, and photographs. WARRENTON, Va. Rachel "Bunny" Mellon left a small island to the Massachusetts Audubon Society, a library to an unspecified charity, jewelry to a former first daughter, and $20 million in cash along with artwork and real estate to Stacy B. Lloyd III, her son by her first marriage. Sometimes Jackie became Bunnys advisor. Hidden from view is a separate library for her collection of 10,000 volumes on horticulture, a pool house designed by I. M. Pei, and the home that Bunny built 60 years ago. With Huffman's help, Mellon began sending checks to the decorator marked "an antique Charleston table" and "bookcases." "I have to tell you, my dear, I hate publicity," said Rachel "Bunny" Mellon. [18] Mellon created more open space for public ceremonies and introduced American species of plants, as well as Magnolia soulangeana. She believed deeply in what he was saying.. His view of his grandmother's relationship with Edwards? [14], Mellon was a long-time Democrat whose political views often conflicted with those of her husband. Calm it down, calm it down.". She laughs, saying, "Oh, you're bad. This story has been shared 209,091 times. [11][12] The couple bred and raced thoroughbred horses, including Sea Hero, winner of the 1993 Kentucky Derby. Instead, they were subtly made to complete a special sense of place. 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. Mrs. Mellon had exquisite taste, and what Jackie admired most of all was the way she taught other people.". Bunny went on to sketch her friend as one who had a mischievous side& twinkle in her eye . Jackie Kennedy and Bunny Mellon in Paris together in the 1960s. A well-groomed young woman is trailing her, but Mellon seems miraculously able for a 99-year-old. The voice on the phone was frail but clear, with a hint of Southern gentility. [31] During this period Mellon wrote a note to Young stating: "from now on, all haircuts, etc. As Jackie Kennedy's closest confidante, she helped decorate the White House, redesigned the Rose Garden, presided over the floral arrangements for JFK's bier, and remained an intimate to the first lady until Jackie's death. Mellon, now blind, lives in luxurious seclusion on her 2,000-acre Virginia farm, cosseted by a staff of 120 loyal retainers. Her death was confirmed by Alexander Forger, her personal attorney for the past 40 years, and her grandson Thomas Lloyd. Later that same first year of the Kennedy administration she sat at the presidents table at a state dinner for Puerto Ricos governor, and when the cellist Pablo Casals played after dinner, she knew she was witnessing a powerful blend of political power and high culture. This could have made for a grim existence. "[32] The funds were secretly used to support Rielle Hunter, a campaign videographer with whom Edwards had an extra-marital affair and child. . July 25, 2011, 10:10 AM. Rachel Lambert "Bunny" Mellon, who died at age 103 on March 17 of this year, was renowned as a style icon, an influential garden designer (she helped plan the White [10][17], As most of her assets were invested in trusts, it was difficult to estimate Mellon's wealth, but her family and husband's fortune and fixed assets suggest she was exceptionally wealthy. [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. Bunny considered white to be the most significant color. 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. 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. "I don't think she's been gullible." the fact that you are splashed in the Daily News, she wrote to accompany a piece about RFKs funeral that she mailed to Bunny. Mac Griswold says, "I think her view is that he's a cute guy and he's allowed to fool around if he likes. At the age of 95, however, Bunnys secret support for John Edwardss mistress and child would bring her a certain notorietyand a visit from the FBI that she would quite enjoy. Forger, then at the white- shoe law firm of Milbank, Tweed, eventually worked exclusively for Bunny, who set up an elegant office for him and his staff on West 57th Street in New York City. They had two children: Stacy Barcroft Lloyd III, and Eliza Winn Lloyd. [25] Proceeds from the sales benefited the Gerard B. Lambert Foundation, a charitable entity established by Mellon in memory of her father. Once the war ended, as Paul Mellon wrote in his autobiography, Reflections in a Silver Spoon, both men found it difficult to resume married life. 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. 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