Bunny Mellon, peerless stylemaker, noted art collector, and philanthropist, lived a life of privilege mixed with sadness, as presented in Meryl Gordons biography, 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. Mellon was the second wife of philanthropist and horse breeder Paul Mellon. 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. 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. 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She and Paul Mellon supported many philanthropic endeavors, but were also known to indulge. 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. According to Crocker, Lloyd was thrilled the buyers were interested in preserving the home as it is. 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. and the Environmental Movement, is required reading at a number of universities. "They were on the same wavelength," says one of Isabell's friends. But so great a talent could not remain forever hidden and neither will yours. [4][23] Her main residence, Oak Spring Farms, was a 4,000-acre (1,600ha) estate in Virginia, that had its own 1-mile (1,600m) long airstrip to accommodate her Falcon 2000. [7][36] Her funeral was held at Trinity Episcopal Church in Upperville, which the Mellons had gifted to the community in 1960. She goes over daily to inquire about construction, a woman caught between present and past. Copyright 2009-2018, New York Public Radio. Rachel Lambert Mellon (August 9, 1910 March 17, 2014), often known as Bunny Mellon, was an American horticulturalist, gardener, philanthropist, and art collector. "[4][31] While investigating Edwards, the Federal Bureau of Investigation interviewed Mellon at Oak Spring on two occasions in 2010. 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. 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." Huffman, who introduced Mellon to Edwards, said the former presidential candidate reminded her of John Kennedy. ", The centenarian's friends view her tolerant attitude to John Edwards's affair as an outgrowth of her own marital experiences. Sometimes Jackie became Bunnys advisor. She's going to do what she wants, and that's the way it's going to be.". . Indeed. At the time of her death, she had two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Bunny Mellon was passionate about gardening, horses and art, all of which could be enjoyed at the Mellon family property, Oak Spring Farms, a 4000-acre estate, in Upperville, Virginia. ", 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." 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. Mellon also was known for her exquisite taste both in fashion and in decorating. . Settling in Virginia, they had a circle that included Paul Mellon, the wealthy son of Herbert Hoover's Treasury secretary. Stepping up to the polls with Paul, Bunny said, she found she didnt have anything to write with. [18][10][19], In 1961, President John F. Kennedy asked Mellon to redesign the White House Rose Garden. 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. Every item on this page was chosen by a townandcountrymag editor. The following month, Mellon's lawyer told the Manhattan District Attorney's office that the transfer was never requested nor approved, the complaint says. "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. Paul Mellon, a renowned art collector, philanthropist and thoroughbred breeder, died in 1999 at age 91. "She is just shocked.". Her interests in gardening were first cultivated while watching Olmsted Brothers gardeners tend her family's New Jersey home. 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. The two women often celebrated their summer birthdays together. A previous auction of Mellon possessions brought in $218.1 million in 2014 for the Gerard B. Lambert Foundation. Even now she is making improvements. 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. The two women took to one another at once. One of the works, No. [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. [10][17] A longtime friendship with the Kennedy family was initiated by a 1958 visit to Oak Spring Farms by Jacqueline Kennedy, whom Mellon later advised on fine arts and antiques during the Kennedy White House restoration. 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.. Bunny considered white to be the most significant color. 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. 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. On Halloween in 1961 the Wildenstein & Co. Manhattan gallery opened a charity exhibition of Schlumbergers jewels, which included some of Bunnys pieces. 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. 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. 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. After their divorce, she married his friend Paul Mellon at the time, reportedly, the worlds richest man. 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. 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. 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. The Strange Promise of a Genuine Squirrel Coat. The DNAinfo archives brought to you by WNYC.Read the press release here. This story has been shared 209,091 times. "I have lived for 99 years and I've never been interviewed by the FBI before!". "[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. The two women took art lessons from Oliver Smith, the scenic designer for American Ballet Theatre who was most famous for his magical Broadway productions: West Side Story, Brigadoon, and in 1960, Camelot, the basis of Jackies enduring reimagining of her husbands brief presidency. Lambert attended Miss Fine's School (Princeton, New Jersey) and the Foxcroft School (Middleburg, Virginia). They would talk about flowers for hours, mesmerized by one another's company. 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. I know the coats history, so much larger than onewomans, and I can give it a proper send-off. Bunny Mellon has outlived most of her intimates. "Jackie Kennedy Onassis and I were the best of friends," Mellon recalls, her voice wistful in memory. [15], Described as a resilient centenarian, a bout with cancer[35] and ongoing macular degeneration nonetheless slowed her activity. She kept her gift private from the world and so have you. Eliza spent the remaining eight years of her life under round-the-clock care at Oak Spring Farms, and died in 2008. 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. These resources reveal how many of her designs were derived from fairy tales. It is a way to help our friend without government restrictions. 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'". Prosecutors have charged that she gave $725,000 to former presidential candidate John Edwards in 2007 and 2008, which he used to conceal his extramarital affair with Rielle Hunter and the existence of their child. With love and inexpressible gratitude for all the joy and help you have always given me. She also said that she ran interference with the Kennedys regarding Onassis before Jackies 1968 marriage to him. John F. Kennedy and Bunny Mellon together on Cape Cod. 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. But it inspired me: 'From now on, all haircuts, etc., that are important for his campaign, please send the bills to me. Mellon eventually gave Edwards more than $6 million, Young said. She designed the guest house specifically for my two older half-sisters.. . 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.. 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. These properties were sold in the years preceding her death. On June 3, 2011, Edwards was indicted on using campaign funds to help cover up an affair and pregnancy during the 2008 presidential campaign. 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. Rachel Lowe Lambert Lloyd Mellons mother gave her the pet name, Bunny, which stuck with her throughout her life, Huffman said. 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. Her social climbing didnt always follow an easy path. The scale of Bunnys wealth meant she could indulge herself in over-the-top moments, as when she treated a magnificent Milton Avery painting that hung in her house on Nantucket as merely a snapshot of herself and her friend Jackie. Excerpt from I'LL BUILD A STAIRWAY TO PARADISE: A Life of Bunny Mellon by Mac Griswold, published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. In 1932, she married Stacy Barcroft Lloyd Jr., a businessman and horse breeder. Outspoken: Bunny Mellon (left) is seen here with her stepdaughter Eliza Lloyd in 1964. 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. [11][12] The couple bred and raced thoroughbred horses, including Sea Hero, winner of the 1993 Kentucky Derby. 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. 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.. 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. 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. UPPERVILLE, Va. Rachel Bunny Mellon, a wealthy arts and fashion patron, friend of first lady Jacqueline Kennedy and political benefactor who funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars to former presidential candidate John Edwards that was used to hide his mistress, died Monday. Nobody really notices what I do, she said. She wanted visitors to her own gardens and the gardens she designed for others to feel transported to another world. [28] Shortly thereafter, in May 2000, her daughter Eliza was hit by a truck while crossing a Manhattan street, causing a severe brain injury and full-body paralysis. 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.. Starr. Her friend Bette Midler performed her hit song The Rose. The gardens carefully designed by the late Mellon, include flower gardens, herb and vegetable gardens. Astor Regrets. Los Angeles Review of Books 6671 Sunset Blvd., Ste 1521 Los Angeles, CA 90028, GENERAL INQUIRIES [emailprotected]MEMBERSHIP INQUIRIES [emailprotected]EDITORIAL INQUIRIES [emailprotected]PRESS INQUIRIES [emailprotected]ADVERTISING INQUIRIES [emailprotected]PURCHASE INQUIRIES [emailprotected], IN MY CLOSET is a black gabardine raincoat with a mink collar that flips up like Garbos in. That funny, sharp-eyedand boldobservation was what won over the wary Bunny, and before long she agreed to help Jackie with her Georgetown house, with the White House Rose Garden, and with the restoration of the presidential mansion itself. 1700 Oil on canvas. Be kind. A 350 year old house, the main property consists of seven bedrooms and five full baths with270 degrees of water views, the listing states. Instead, they were subtly made to complete a special sense of place. At debutante balls, fundraisers, and art openings, Ill Build a Stairway to Paradise shows how Mellon became a tastemaker. The life she's led was all about that kind of thing. Ill Build a Stairway to Paradise spans the full 103 years of The Feminist Uses of Narrative Fiction: Jill Filipovics The H-Spot and the Search for Womens Happiness. Robert Isabell, the talented New York floral designer who worked on Caroline Kennedy's 1984 wedding, became an integral part of Mellon's life. 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. 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 Eliza predeceased her mother. ", 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. 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. Both women shared a profound belief in the absolute ability of style to carry real meaning. "I wish I could have 10 minutes in a room with John Edwards to explain that he's doing nothing but tarnish her legacy and really taking advantage of her," says Thomas Lloyd, her grandson, who testified before the grand jury. Pei, Audrey Hepburn, Richard Diebenkorn, Katharine Graham. 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. Sometimes Bunny felt very alone in her effort to maintain this balance. One weekend in June, she beamed as her 3-year-old great-granddaughter, Fiona, put stickers all over her arms. Copyright 2009-2018, DNAinfo. She was 103. [17][10], Mellon designed landscapes for many of the Mellons' properties, including the French-inspired gardens of their estate, Oak Spring Farms. Bunny was a society figure with an almost pathological dislike for publicity, a trait she shared with her husband. [8] He served in the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. A family thats been in the area for a couple of generations purchased the property. Ill Build a Stairway to Paradise spans the full 103 years of Bunny Mellons life. Bunny went on to sketch her friend as one who had a mischievous side& twinkle in her eye . She reportedly told friends the senator reminded her of John F. Kennedy, whose wife Jackie O. was a close friend, the Daily Beast reported. Bunny poured her nesting urge into the creation of many perfect houses for Paul and the children. 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. Their particular combination of money (Bunnys) and fame (Jackies) made them formidable. As her lawyer Alex Forger puts it, "She's well off, but her assets are not liquid. 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. Her death was confirmed by Alexander Forger, her personal attorney for the past 40 years, and her grandson Thomas Lloyd. She was a poor Bouvier, by the standards of the society in which she moved. 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. that & her sense of humor.. Bunny Lloyd made a condolence call; Mellon wrote that she was "very kind and understanding over my distress." 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. [22], She maintained homes in Antigua, Nantucket and Oyster Harbors, Cape Cod, two apartments in Paris, and a townhouse in New York City. (Italian, 1667 1720) A quince, an apple, two lemons, and three blue and white cups], ca. 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. Mellon's second husband, Paul Mellon, died in 1999, aged 91. 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