Even before she married Paul Mellon a philanthropist, 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. "It's been like falling down the rabbit hole with Alice in Wonderland," says Huffman, who rues introducing the heiress to the senator. 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. The doyenne of high society is the widow of Paul Mellon, a billionaire art patron and racehorse breeder. 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. 1700 Oil on canvas. "Bunny gave him validation, after all those ass-kissing socialites who mistreated him. 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Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. 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. The two women managed to make light of the issues in their own difficult marriages: Pauls relationship with Dorcas Hardin, and JFKs omnivorous promiscuity. (The Kennedy biographer Sally Bedell Smith quotes Jackie as saying to Ted Kennedys wife, Joan, All Kennedy men are like that . 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'". What extravagance, breathed Jackie, or so the story goes. Stepping up to the polls with Paul, Bunny said, she found she didnt have anything to write with. Mellon, now blind, lives in luxurious seclusion on her 2,000-acre Virginia farm, cosseted by a staff of 120 loyal retainers. Instead, they were subtly made to complete a special sense of place. Her friend Bette Midler performed her hit song The Rose. [4] She had a brother and a sister: Gerard Barnes Lambert, Jr. (19121947; married Elsa Cover), who died in a 1947 plane crash,[5][6] and Lily McCarthy (19142006; married twice, to William Wilson Fleming and John Gilman McCarthy, respectively). 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. As society bandleader Peter Duchin says, "Bunny is a person with wonderful taste. "'Just think!'" 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 Each also found in the other a sister more compatible, loyal, and loving than her own. She often developed her garden designs on paper, with particular attention to scale. And what a past it was. Just one week prior to his indictment, in late May 2011, Edwards visited Mellon at her Upperville estate. Bunny tolerated his paramours, even inviting one mistress to join them at their Antigua estate. Sometimes Bunny felt very alone in her effort to maintain this balance. [18][10][19], In 1961, President John F. Kennedy asked Mellon to redesign the White House Rose Garden. [13], Mellon was long known for her maximal discretion and minimal public exposure; she offered only a handful of interviews to journalists in her lifetime. She quickly divorced her husband, and in May 1948 she and Mellon wed. . Style included a great deal more than the cut of clothing or a period of interior decoration. 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. "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. She was involved in the business of nature and beauty, design and implementation, Forger said. Both women shared a profound belief in the absolute ability of style to carry real meaning. Bunny Mellon, in her Oak Spring Garden Library. In particular, feds were interested in the $700,000 in funds Mellon allegedly made out to Edwards' campaign in the form of blank checks annotated "furniture," the Daily Beast said. After their divorce, she married his friend Paul Mellon at the time, reportedly, the worlds richest man. The Fall of Feminism: Jessa Crispins Why I Am Not A Feminist. 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. Mellon sent checks to Huffman inside boxes of chocolate, and Huffman would direct them to the campaign, Young wrote. Rendered a She didnt think it trivialized Averyand if it did, that didnt matter, as it was hers. According to the indictment, Edwards and his aide Andrew Young asked her for personal cash for the senator. Forever blonde, tall, and slender, she greets visitors in cotton shirts or cashmere twin sets, accented with pearls and Schlumberger bracelets. that & her sense of humor.. Through it all, she remains an enthusiastic defender of the former North Carolina senator. For most of her 103 years, Rachel Bunny Lambert Mellon kept secret the intimate details of her life. 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. Their particular combination of money (Bunnys) and fame (Jackies) made them formidable. ", The Edwards episode has baffled and upset Mellon's family. [11] Her work was strongly influenced by French gardeners Andr Le Ntre and Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie. I know the coats history, so much larger than onewomans, and I can give it a proper send-off. (French, ca. According to Crocker, Lloyd was thrilled the buyers were interested in preserving the home as it is. Rachel Bunny Mellon was born 110 years ago on August 9th in New York, NY. "It's hard being 100 and blind. 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 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. Calm it down, calm it down.". (Italian, 1667 1720) A quince, an apple, two lemons, and three blue and white cups], ca. 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. Most of her modern-art collection will be sold, along with three quarters of the acreage of the farm. 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. 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. All Rights Reserved. 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. [11][12] The couple bred and raced thoroughbred horses, including Sea Hero, winner of the 1993 Kentucky Derby. 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. [7][36] Her funeral was held at Trinity Episcopal Church in Upperville, which the Mellons had gifted to the community in 1960. The DNAinfo archives brought to you by WNYC.Read the press release here. She had been an admirer from afar, buying an ad in her local newspaper three years earlier trumpeting Edwards's candidacy. "I don't know what I've done that has made people so interested in me, more than anyone else." 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. Mrs. Mellon had exquisite taste, and what Jackie admired most of all was the way she taught other people.". 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." 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. After Lambert divorced Lloyd, she and Paul Mellon were married on May 1, 1948. 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. 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. "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. The estate on the private islandof Oyster Harbors overlooksNantucket Sound and Marthas Vineyard. If true, its also possible to look at it as just one more example of both Bunnys fierce determination to finish a thing, to make it perfect, and her determination to go the distance for her friend. "I think it's awful." Then her daughter was fatally hit in a car accident, and she threw herself even deeper into her career. She designed the guest house specifically for my two older half-sisters.. Her grandson, Stacy Lloyd IV, remembered Mellon as "Granbunny" and how she taught him to find beauty in everything. 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 Mellon has outlived most of her intimates. A family thats been in the area for a couple of generations purchased the property. Caroline Kennedy, daughter of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, sat beside Mrs. Mellon during the funeral. 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. Rachel Lowe Lambert, nicknamed Bunny by her mother, was the eldest child of Gerard Barnes Lambert, president of the Gillette Safety Razor Company and a founder of WarnerLambert, and his wife, Rachel Parkhill Lowe. Bunnys presents were more extravagant than Jackies and often featured a surprise. After prosecutors learned that Edwards had visited Mellon on May 26even as his lawyers were conducting unsuccessful plea-bargain negotiations prior to the indictmenthe was banned from contacting his benefactor. Rachel Lowe Lambert Lloyd Mellons mother gave her the pet name, Bunny, which stuck with her throughout her life, Huffman said. Crocker would not reveal who the buyers were, only that they hadseveral other Cape properties and are extremely private. Her appetite for prestige, although ever discreet, only increased with her second marriage, to Mellon, in 1948. Her recent collection isWaiting for Charlie: Mercenary Soldiers, Failed States, and the Love That Means More Than Money. 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. She was also a great landscape and interior designer at the intersection of history and style. Jackie Onassis, 19 years her junior, died in 1994; Paul Mellon died five years later after a lingering illness. They divorced in 1948. Astor Regrets. Susan Zakin was born in New York City, where she attended the Brearley School and Columbia Universitys Graduate School of Journalism. Bunny considered white to be the most significant color. Repeatedly in her letters over the years, Jackie apologized for the attention that being her friend brought Bunny. ", 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." Her grandfather, Jordan W. Lambert, created Listerine. 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. Billy Baldwin, who saw Bunny at work at Oak Spring, wrote about her affectionately but clearly: You know that she loves every chair, you know that she feels tenderly about every single blossom, and you know that she rips out anything that she doesnt like, not with violence or cruelty but with the simple determination to eliminate it. Additionally, she added a guest house (referred to as the childrens barn), herb garden, vegetable garden and main formal garden. Cristofaro Munari, attrib. Rendered a paraplegic and unable to speak, Eliza was transported to her mother's farm for round-the-clock care, surviving for eight years. Settling in Virginia, they had a circle that included Paul Mellon, the wealthy son of Herbert Hoover's Treasury secretary. Bunny went on to sketch her friend as one who had a mischievous side& twinkle in her eye . Zenas Crocker of Robet Paul Properties held the listing. On November 25, 1932, Lambert married Stacy Barcroft Lloyd Jr. of Ardmore, Pennsylvania, at Trinity Church, Princeton. [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. Mellon died of natural causes at her 4,000-acre estate in Upperville, Va., her lawyer told The New York Times. 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. Courtesy Oak Spring Garden Library. [4][14], On March 17, 2014, Mellon died at her Upperville, Virginia, home of natural causes. The following month, Mellon's lawyer told the Manhattan District Attorney's office that the transfer was never requested nor approved, the complaint says. His view of his grandmother's relationship with Edwards? Even as a child, Bunny had depicted her surroundings in sketches and paintings. [10][24] The painting measured 10 by 15 feet. Her art collection included a Rothko reportedly worth $125 million. "That's why I want to do this story now," I reply. 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. 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. 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. In her patrician voice she adds, "I'll have to put my trust in you and God. She kept her gift private from the world and so have you. Situated on over 7 acres, it is also known as one of Cape Cods original homes. For Jackie, too, white was the most ceremonial color; her strapless inaugural ball gown was white, with a small white ribbon cockade at the waisthomage to the France she loved. Bunny told me that a Black voter just leaving the polls handed her his pen and said with a wink, Here, missus, use this. This was Bunnys adult baptism into the importance of her vote. 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. During World War II, Lloyd and Mellon roomed together in London, where both worked for the Office of Strategic Services, the predecessor to the CIA. Through it all, she never sought publicity. 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. Yet Bunny Mellon cheerfully carries on. The daughter was married to former U.S. Sen. John Warner. Jackie, on the other hand, was an outright celebrity, and she quickly gained a new kind of celebrityor notorietywhen she married Aristotle Onassis. [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. "I have lived for 99 years and I've never been interviewed by the FBI before!". You are a poet like Emily Dickinson in your gardens, in your houses, in the way you see nature and all of life. Mac Griswold says, "I think her view is that he's a cute guy and he's allowed to fool around if he likes. She had a son, Stacy Barcroft Lloyd III, and two step-children, Timothy Mellon and Catherine Warner. She minded her own life and she felt deeply . Bunny poured her nesting urge into the creation of many perfect houses for Paul and the children. 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. Huffman, who introduced Mellon to Edwards, said the former presidential candidate reminded her of John Kennedy. She contributed more than $3.5 million to Edwards's issues organization and to PACs supporting his candidacy. The life she's led was all about that kind of thing. A jury later acquitted him on a campaign finance charge and deadlocked on five other felony counts. Tiffany & Co.s Pierce McGuire recalled that Mrs. Mellon described how she and Schlumberger had collaborated on the design for his famous paillonn enamel bangle and that she had given Jackie the first one. Paul Mellon, a renowned art collector, philanthropist and thoroughbred breeder, died in 1999 at age 91. It is a way to help our friend without government restrictions. We've received your submission. Joseph Campbell, the 20th-century writer on myth best known for The Hero with a Thousand Faces, saw what he thought might be the dangers of Jackies life after JFKs assassination. 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. Some may find the pacing too leisurely, and the book is at its best when Mellons curious personality comes out in full. You dont even have to talk. The two women often celebrated their summer birthdays together. 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. 11:00 PM WARRENTON, Va. Rachel "Bunny" Mellon left a small island to the Massachusetts Audubon Society, a library to an unspecified charity, jewelry to a Beneath their perfect society manners and oddly similar whispering voices ran an electric current of power. "I had a serious operation a little while ago, and ever since then I've been very, very weak," Mellon says. All Rights Reserved. [22], She maintained homes in Antigua, Nantucket and Oyster Harbors, Cape Cod, two apartments in Paris, and a townhouse in New York City. Like her billionaire philanthropist husband, Paul Mellon, and The Feminist Uses of Narrative Fiction: Jill Filipovics The H-Spot and the Search for Womens Happiness. Her close friendship with Bunny would give her the privacy, affection, and depth of understanding to help bear the weight of that armor. . 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. [15][16], Although she had no formal training, Mellon read widely in horticulture and made contributions to several landmark gardens. 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. She lives in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. Thats the antithesis of what her style would be, he said. ", 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. She laughs, saying, "Oh, you're bad. Nobody really notices what I do, she said. Starr. 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