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. Griswold has mined Bunny Mellons personal archives for journal entries, poems, and photographs. When in 1968 Eliza married Viscount Henry Dermot Ponsonby Moore, better known as the photographer Derry Moore, Bunny would draft Jackies children, Caroline and John, then 11 and eight, as flower girl and page boy (in knee breeches, British court style for little boys). The following month, Mellon's lawyer told the Manhattan District Attorney's office that the transfer was never requested nor approved, the complaint says. 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. "[4][31] While investigating Edwards, the Federal Bureau of Investigation interviewed Mellon at Oak Spring on two occasions in 2010. I want to come back. Another note from Jackie that Bunny inserted into one of her little blue daily datebooks went the other way, with Jackie comforting her friend about some problem and telling her, Dont worry, we will just beat the world back again., When in 1989 Jackie looked back at their years as friends, she wrote, Ever since Ive known you (33 years ago this spring) you have meant as much to me as any person in my life. Thanking Bunny for her love and care, her wise and strong support, and for all she had meant to the Kennedy children, Jackie closed with, I want you to be as happy as you make me.. With other estates on Antigua, Cape Cod, and Nantucket (the two Paris apartments and the New York townhouse have been recently sold), Mellon is experiencing that WASP nightmareliving on principal. The home was later restored in the 1970s and modernized. They could move, manipulate, and cutwith finality. That was the best part. According to Crocker, Lloyd was thrilled the buyers were interested in preserving the home as it is. 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." [25] Proceeds from the sales benefited the Gerard B. Lambert Foundation, a charitable entity established by Mellon in memory of her father. From left: AP (2); Jonathan Torgovnik / Getty Images for Newsweek, Gutting IRS Will Help Wealthy Avoid More Taxes | Opinion, Eliminating Income Tax Means More Money for Americans | Opinion. Eliza predeceased her mother. 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. Her recent collection isWaiting for Charlie: Mercenary Soldiers, Failed States, and the Love That Means More Than Money. Old stone walls surround the sun-dappled rolling fields, which feature two enormous greenhouses and a football-field-size cutting garden with branches of fruit trees entwined in a not-seen-in-nature pattern. She believed deeply in what he was saying.. "'Just think!'" In turn, after 1979, when Jackie bought Red Gate Farm on over three hundred acres on Marthas Vineyard, Bunny cleaned up and edited the straggling old farm-scape without overmanaging it and guided Jackie to the well-known architect Hugh Newell Jacobsen, who designed a plain, cedar-shingled Cape Cod house. The two shared a childlike imagination and enthusiasm that, as Jackie herself said, seems to flicker out in so many adults. J. Pei, Audrey Hepburn, Richard Diebenkorn, Katharine Graham. The estate also holds a boathouse and a garage. I know youll hate . Huffman introduced Mellon to John Edwards in 2006. 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. 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'". Stepping up to the polls with Paul, Bunny said, she found she didnt have anything to write with. "It's been like falling down the rabbit hole with Alice in Wonderland," says Huffman, who rues introducing the heiress to the senator. She wanted visitors to her own gardens and the gardens she designed for others to feel transported to another world. He gave her a life of infinite luxuryThe Washington Post once pronounced Bunny the "Most Envied Hostess in the Country Today"but at a cost. [19][20] Mellon completed her work on the garden in close collaboration with Irvin Williams who, among other responsibilities, she tasked with finding and introducing magnolia trees to the garden. 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 She lives in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. 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. ", Mellon and her late husband Paul recommended Starr to friends, and she is mortified that they have suffered, saying, "The worse thing is the people he stole money from." Bunny Mellon, in her Oak Spring Garden Library. 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. 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Her social climbing didnt always follow an easy path. 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. "It's a crush." She had not given an extended interview in more than a quarter century. the fact that you are splashed in the Daily News, she wrote to accompany a piece about RFKs funeral that she mailed to Bunny. Shes not sitting around in velvet covered gold chairs. "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. Excerpt from I'LL BUILD A STAIRWAY TO PARADISE: A Life of Bunny Mellon by Mac Griswold, published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Mellons attorney said she had no idea the money was going to hide a mistress. All Rights Reserved. But it inspired me: 'From now on, all haircuts, etc., that are important for his campaign, please send the bills to me. 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. Rendered a paraplegic and unable to speak, Eliza was transported to her mother's farm for round-the-clock care, surviving for eight years. This could have made for a grim existence. . The voice on the phone was frail but clear, with a hint of Southern gentility. This could have made for a grim existence. It is a way to help our friend without government restrictions. she told a friend after the visit from the feds, Daily Beast reported. This could also lead her astray: late in life, hoping to try her hand at politics, she bet on the wrong horse with handsome John Edwards, only to find herself entangled in an unsavory state of affairs. Mellon lived a closely guarded life dominated by the arts, fashion, horses, rare books and extraordinary gardens. A 350 year old house, the main property consists of seven bedrooms and five full baths with270 degrees of water views, the listing states. Join half a million readers enjoying Newsweek's free newsletters. Write it nice, friendly, nongossipy. When Jackie left her straw hat on Nantucket after one of their lunches, Bunny sent the plane straight back from Cape Cod to fetch it. "I thought the church was charming and sent her a little note," he recalls. The daughter was married to former U.S. Sen. John Warner. Even now she is making improvements. [9], Lambert and her first husband became close friends of the banking heir and art collector Paul Mellon and his first wife, Mary Conover, who died of an asthma attack in 1946. According to Griswold, Paul Mellons very public affair with Dorcas Hardin, for one, caused his wife such pain she distracted herself with increasingly bigger and bolder projects the expansion of the National Gallery of Art, the flourish of the Kennedys White House Rose Garden. From left: Jacqueline Kennedy with Rachel "Bunny" Mellon in Boston in 1961.; Bunny Mellon (left) with stepdaughter Eliza Lloyd (center) and husband, Paul Mellon, in 1964.; Senator John Edwards in at a rally in Iowa in 2007. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Travel + Leisure. Rachel Lambert Mellon (affectionately nicknamed Bunny) was the heiress to a mouthwash fortune. On Halloween in 1961 the Wildenstein & Co. Manhattan gallery opened a charity exhibition of Schlumbergers jewels, which included some of Bunnys pieces. And what a past it was. A Cape Cod estate formerlyowned by socialite Rachel Bunny Lambert Mellon has been sold for $19 million. A well-groomed young woman is trailing her, but Mellon seems miraculously able for a 99-year-old. 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. Bunny Mellon, peerless stylemaker, noted art collector, and philanthropist, lived a life of privilege mixed with sadness, as presented in Meryl Gordons biography, 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." Caroline Kennedy, daughter of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, sat beside Mrs. Mellon during the funeral. Jackie had, in fact, quickly come to understand that she had become a piece of public property and that there was a pressing need to have what she wore in the White House years be a uniform. As an adult, her fluency with pencil and ink led her to illustrate her letters, underlining the emotions they expressed. Bunny Mellon is aristocratic American history personified, a woman who has entertained two generations of British royalty (Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip in 1957 and, three decades later, Charles and Di), lent her jet and accompanied Jackie Kennedy to Martin Luther King Jr.'s funeral, gardened in clothes designed by Givenchy, and searched the world for art treasures with an open checkbook and an astute eye. Im not sadnot really . [17] Mellon amassed a large collection of horticultural books and was regarded as an authority on American horticulture. In 1932, she married Stacy Barcroft Lloyd Jr., a businessman and horse breeder. [10] In a 1969 New York Times article with the Mellons, she proclaimed that "nothing should be noticed. Then she adds, "I'm very busy. Her father, Gerald Lambert, built a company that made everything from Dentyne to Schick razors before it was sold to Pfizer for $110 billion in 2000. After his funeral, for which Mellon arranged flowers, Lady Bird Johnson asked Mellon to resume her work on the White House grounds. Mellon described in the 37-page federal criminal indictment as "Client 5, an elderly heiress" nearing her 100s "had not the slightest inkling" that anything was wrong with her investments with Starr, who had been a friend and financial advisor for three decades, her lawyer said. Susan Zakin was born in New York City, where she attended the Brearley School and Columbia Universitys Graduate School of Journalism. Most distressing is her loss of vision. 2023 Cohen Media Publications LLC. Bunny and Jackie dined at Johnnys small clapboard house on East 92nd Street before heading to the gala, the proceeds of which would support the preservation of Newport, Rhode Islands trove of 18th- and 19th-century architecture. [15], Described as a resilient centenarian, a bout with cancer[35] and ongoing macular degeneration nonetheless slowed her activity. She planted a variety of pear and apple trees around the perimeter of the garden, as well as honey locust and sassafras trees, which she and her landscaping team carefully pruned over decades.. She goes over daily to inquire about construction, a woman caught between present and past. Bunny was a society figure with an almost pathological dislike for publicity, a trait she shared with her husband. We've received your submission. According to the criminal complaint, Starr siphoned at least $5.75 million from Oak Spring Farms LLC to his own personal account to pay for a $7.5 million Upper East Side apartment between April 13 - April 16. 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. According to the indictment, Edwards and his aide Andrew Young asked her for personal cash for the senator. The Feminist Uses of Narrative Fiction: Jill Filipovics The H-Spot and the Search for Womens Happiness. She had been raised in a family that believed a woman should not advertise herself, and yet its clear that she wanted some sort of recognition for the importance of her work, especially for the Rose Garden. His view of his grandmother's relationship with Edwards? Mellons Oak Spring Garden Library, which houses her collection of rare books, manuscripts, works of art and other pieces relating to her hobbies, is one of the largest repositories of horticultural information and is visited by scholars worldwide. [10] By this marriage, she became the stepmother of Timothy Mellon and Catherine Conover Mellon (later Mrs. John Warner and now known as Catherine Conover). Eliza spent the remaining eight years of her life under round-the-clock care at Oak Spring Farms, and died in 2008. "[14] Although this remark was made in reference to garden design, it has frequently been taken to encapsulate her attitude toward personal privacy and lifestyle choices. [31] During this period Mellon wrote a note to Young stating: "from now on, all haircuts, etc. It is a way to help our friend without government restrictions.'?" 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. But Mellon struck up new life-affirming friendships with much younger, artistic men. Jackies wardrobe of state clothing, as she called it, was like that of Queen Elizabeth II in its clear, solid colors and off-the-face hats but modernized with cleaner lines and greater ease of movement. 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 born into a well-to-do Princeton family. The Rose Garden would go on to become a place where President John F. Kennedy and presidents after him hosted significant events. 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. "She called and invited me to lunch.". This story has been shared 107,512 times. More prosaically, Jackie and Bunnys shared foundation of WASP taste and attitudes included a dedication (an idealized postWorld War I preoccupation) to husband and home, an attitude that reached its apogee in America in the 1950s. Each also found in the other a sister more compatible, loyal, and loving than her own. ", Another friend was Bryan Huffman, a 47-year-old North Carolina decorator who got to know Mellon after visiting a church she helped design and underwrite. 20 (Yellow Expanse), completed in 1955 was considered one of the largest Rothko works in private hands. He warned her that she should shun celebrity and stick to becoming a myth. 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. Sometimes Jackie became Bunnys advisor. She contributed more than $3.5 million to Edwards's issues organization and to PACs supporting his candidacy. [11][12] The couple bred and raced thoroughbred horses, including Sea Hero, winner of the 1993 Kentucky Derby. Bunny Mellon, ne Rachel Lowe Lambert, was not just a social figure. Her rarefied style sometimes reached a point where the real people in her life, such as her children, seemed to become doll-like figures for her to mold and shape. Mac Griswold's new book I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise offers rare insight into one of history's most compelling pairings. Mellon believed a ladys name should only appear in the newspaper three times: for her debut, her marriage and her obituary, Huffman said. [4][30]:158, At the request of campaign operative Andrew Young, the commitment morphed to include underwriting Edwards' personal expenses. The two women took to one another at once. . She reportedly told friends the senator reminded her of John F. Kennedy, whose wife Jackie O. was a close friend, the Daily Beast reported. 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. As her lawyer Alex Forger puts it, "She's well off, but her assets are not liquid. Robert Isabell, the talented New York floral designer who worked on Caroline Kennedy's 1984 wedding, became an integral part of Mellon's life. She was also a great landscape and interior designer at the intersection of history and style. women hell-bent on making their daughters marriageable. Huffman, who introduced Mellon to Edwards, said the former presidential candidate reminded her of John Kennedy. John F. Kennedy and Bunny Mellon together on Cape Cod. NYC's safest neighborhood is this off-the-radar slice of Q Todd Chrisley serving his time in one of America's cushiest prisons, John Leguizamo buys daughter a co-op on same NYC block as family house, Elon Musk auctions off 600 Twitter items at HQ, including $16K bird, Jen Shah posts, deletes cryptic message about the truth after prison sentencing, Kardashians are confused, concerned about Kanye Wests new marriage, Jinger Duggar grew up ruled by fear in cult-like religious family, Kitten born with same 'Zorro' mask as her father, Shakira allegedly discovered Gerard Piqu's cheating because of a jam jar, Carole Baskin claims her dead husband found alive but no one noticed last year. [18][10][19], In 1961, President John F. Kennedy asked Mellon to redesign the White House Rose Garden. For Bunnys 69th, Jackie gave her an illustrated edition of Emily Dickinsons poems. Even before she married Paul Mellon a philanthropist, In her patrician voice she adds, "I'll have to put my trust in you and God. But there was more to the story: her gardens were an escape. She was forced to give up gardening by 2011, although she continued to swim, do Pilates, and give the rare interview. (French, ca. MANHATTAN Listerine heiress and philanthropist Rachel 'Bunny' Mellon has preferred to shun the media spotlight since long before her financial largesse became Just plain bad." Yet Bunny Mellon cheerfully carries on. All Rights Reserved. [4][14], On March 17, 2014, Mellon died at her Upperville, Virginia, home of natural causes. [4][29] Caroline Kennedy, daughter of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, sat beside Mrs. Mellon during the funeral. Little did she suspect that the money would later allegedly be used to fund Edwards increasingly tawdry exploits with his mistress, the Daily Beast said. "I have to tell you, my dear, I hate publicity," said Rachel "Bunny" Mellon. Jackie Onassis, 19 years her junior, died in 1994; Paul Mellon died five years later after a lingering illness. Some may find the pacing too leisurely, and the book is at its best when Mellons curious personality comes out in full. One day these gems may turn up, but my take is that the fantastical yet practical Bunny might just as likely have given Jackie a solid gold Schlumberger box of real paints. Starr. Two women sitting close together overlooking Gloucester Harbor while one sketches and the other looks on admiringly became Jackie and I on the Dock. Or, to say it more simply, Bunny enjoyed the thought of their friendship when she looked at the painting. Bunny went on to sketch her friend as one who had a mischievous side& twinkle in her eye . She kept her gift private from the world and so have you. The guest house comes with two separate bedrooms and bathrooms, a kitchen and a laundry room. ", The Edwards episode has baffled and upset Mellon's family. She minded her own life and she felt deeply . The DNAinfo archives brought to you by WNYC.Read the press release here. The gardens carefully designed by the late Mellon, include flower gardens, herb and vegetable gardens. B. "We have no idea at the moment what exposure she has to this," said lawyer Alexander Forger, who represents Mellon's family office, Oak Spring Farms. 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. Jackie took it all inthe relaxed style, the magnificent art, and the stale candies in the antique jarsas she told Bunny in a phone call the next day. 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The Mellons gave Jackie a birthday party in 1966, three years after the assassination, at their home in Oyster Harbors. ", Her solace was her gardens, and she took enormous pleasure in designing gardens for herself and friends. ", Her birthday plans are uncertain but are likely to mimic last year's modest festivitiesa lunch at the farm for family members plus Caroline Kennedy, Huffman, and Forger. UPDATE: Netscape billionaire Jim Clark and his Australian model wife Kristy Hinze have bought Bunny Mellons New York townhouse for $37 million Curbed has the goss. After Lambert divorced Lloyd, she and Paul Mellon were married on May 1, 1948. She didnt think it trivialized Averyand if it did, that didnt matter, as it was hers. She was 103. On June 3, 2011, Edwards was indicted on using campaign funds to help cover up an affair and pregnancy during the 2008 presidential campaign. Yet now the private Mellon, who turns 101 on Aug. 9, has become front-page news for her unwitting involvement in two unrelated criminal cases. These properties were sold in the years preceding her death. Jackie did neither. I can't write, but I dictate, I talk to people. The public life is above water& the private lifeis submergedI flatter myself that I have made his private life something he can love & find peace incomfortable smoothly run houseswith all the things he loves in thempictures, books, good food, friends& his daughter & wife geared to adapt to his hours when he comes home. Bunny gave Jackie confidence in her chosen role, helped her enhance the presidents home even more, and provided her a friendship like no other. Through it all, she never sought publicity. She was loyal beyond anything and we gave each other space. Mellon comes across as a woman with her faculties fully intact. She next began to work on the White House's East Garden, but her work was interrupted by Kennedy's assassination. West, chief usher at the White House during the Kennedy administration, watched Jackie at play with her children on the South Lawn and observed that she was so happy, so abandoned, so like a little girl who had never grown up. Billy Baldwin, albeit a shameless gusher about clients he loved, accurately described the same quality in Bunny when he wrote that one of the incredibly rare qualities of this incredibly rare woman is her ability to empathize with anothers enthusiasmsat least with enthusiasms like his own. Her death was confirmed by Alexander Forger, her personal attorney for the past 40 years, and her grandson Thomas Lloyd. Until she neared 100 she practiced pilates daily, which she learned from the master Joseph Pilates in the 1950s. One of the works, No. 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. Rendered a paraplegic and unable to speak, Eliza was transported to her mother's farm for round-the-clock care, surviving for eight years. 1700 Oil on canvas. that are necessary and important for his campaign please send the bills to me It is a way to help our friend without government restrictions.. Mellon's lawyer Alex Forger elaborates further on his client's attitude: "She was not enamored of his wife and didn't want his wife to know that he was getting money. Daughter of the president of the Gillette Safety Razor Co. and granddaughter of the inventor of Listerine, Rachel (Bunny) Lambert was born into money and groomed for social success. 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