Jackie honored her friends creative achievementssomething that Bunny welcomed. Paul Mellon once told The Washington Post, "The thing I envy about Bunny is that from the age of 5 or 6, her whole life has been occupied by horticulture, by one consuming thing." 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. Then her daughter was fatally hit in a car accident, and she threw herself even deeper into her career. Paul Mellon, a renowned art collector, philanthropist and thoroughbred breeder, died in 1999 at age 91. Join half a million readers enjoying Newsweek's free newsletters. He was wise, he was clear, he was a very good person. The Rose Garden would go on to become a place where President John F. Kennedy and presidents after him hosted significant events. [26] Three of her most important paintings, two by Rothko and one by Richard Diebenkorn, were sold privately before the Sotheby's auction for a reported $250 million. After Lambert divorced Lloyd, she and Paul Mellon were married on May 1, 1948. "[4][31] While investigating Edwards, the Federal Bureau of Investigation interviewed Mellon at Oak Spring on two occasions in 2010. 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[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. As society bandleader Peter Duchin says, "Bunny is a person with wonderful taste. I agreed but said, But she had to dress for Peoria. Wendy, who knew Jackie well, shot back, She didnt know there was a Peoria.. Ill Build a Stairway to Paradise spans the full 103 years of Jackie, on the other hand, was an outright celebrity, and she quickly gained a new kind of celebrityor notorietywhen she married Aristotle Onassis. 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. "I'm going along on very weak wheels." 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. 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. 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. [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. Bunny considered white to be the most significant color. she told a friend after the visit from the feds, Daily Beast reported. . Bunny made her debut in October 1929 and three years later married the socially connected Stacy Lloyd Jr. Only Bunny could have thought of the perfect finale: as dinner finished, Jackies beloved White House chef, Ren Verdon, who had been secretly flown up to cook the birthday feast, appeared like a rabbit pulled out of a hat. 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. Bunny answered him, writing so was she [Jackie]we saw life like that, going on to add that no matter how self-importantly people took themselves or their doing, we could see the simpler side, and wondered why the fuss?, Bunny contrived not to understand why it was difficult for serious people to grasp what the simpler side was for her and her friend two women who, by birth, wealth, and their grasp of power, were essentially living on another planet. The Fall of Feminism: Jessa Crispins Why I Am Not A Feminist. Additionally, she added a guest house (referred to as the childrens barn), herb garden, vegetable garden and main formal garden. Trescher mentioned how surprised hed been at first to find that Mrs. You dont even have to talk. . The guest list entailed flying in many of the D.C. and New York regulars who had danced at Elizas coming-out party; the band played foxtrots from the Great American Songbook before moving on to rock and roll; and the food was deliciousstriped bass, lamb, string beans, salad, peaches. He said Mellon wrote in her letter, from now on, all haircuts, etc. Rendered a Both she and Jackie were crowded by more people than they had time for. On November 25, 1932, Lambert married Stacy Barcroft Lloyd Jr. of Ardmore, Pennsylvania, at Trinity Church, Princeton. She had political and social power but not financial power. Although Jackies friendship with Bunny ran deeper than access to Mellon money, once Jackie was no longer in the White House, she became aware of the ease that assets like Bunnys offeredsuch as the peace and privacy of the Mellons house on Antigua, where they retreated in the first traumatic days of January 1964. Like her billionaire philanthropist husband, Paul Mellon, and But Mellon was back in the news on Thursday thanks to the alleged financial misdeeds of her long-time financier, Kenneth Starr. [22], She maintained homes in Antigua, Nantucket and Oyster Harbors, Cape Cod, two apartments in Paris, and a townhouse in New York City. When Mellon became aware of the use of her funds for this purpose, she reportedly came to regret the donations, but maintained that Edwards "would have been a great president. Mellon comes across as a woman with her faculties fully intact. [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. She wanted visitors to her own gardens and the gardens she designed for others to feel transported to another world. She often developed her garden designs on paper, with particular attention to scale. She's going to do what she wants, and that's the way it's going to be.". [8] He served in the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. Mellon lived a closely guarded life dominated by the arts, fashion, horses, rare books and extraordinary gardens. 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 Mellons family and her longtime personal attorney said she died of natural causes at her beloved 4,000-acre Oak Spring Farms in Virginias horse country, where she entertained royalty, stars and politicians but from which she rarely ventured. Eliza spent the remaining eight years of her life under round-the-clock care at Oak Spring Farms, and died in 2008. women hell-bent on making their daughters marriageable. 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. They reportedly had homes in Antigua, Paris, New York, Washington, Nantucket and Cape Cod, and a mile-long runway for their private jet. With Huffman's help, Mellon began sending checks to the decorator marked "an antique Charleston table" and "bookcases." Her interests in gardening were first cultivated while watching Olmsted Brothers gardeners tend her family's New Jersey home. 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 Her close friendship with Bunny would give her the privacy, affection, and depth of understanding to help bear the weight of that armor. She also said that she ran interference with the Kennedys regarding Onassis before Jackies 1968 marriage to him. Astor Regrets. She believed deeply in what he was saying.. Nobody really notices what I do, she said. Im not sadnot really . 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. As it was being built, the two women considered its furnishings. [18][10][19], In 1961, President John F. Kennedy asked Mellon to redesign the White House Rose Garden. I can't write, but I dictate, I talk to people. "I had a serious operation a little while ago, and ever since then I've been very, very weak," Mellon says. Scarred by his parents' acrimonious divorce, Paul proved to be an emotionally remote husband with a wandering eye. In this impressive portrait of Bunny Mellon, Mac Griswold, who knew the landscape architect and designer personally, makes the argument that Mellon aspired to create an American pastoral for the 20th century, rooted in the promise of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. She is without the trappings someone would associate with an heiress.. 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. The voice on the phone was frail but clear, with a hint of Southern gentility. Crocker would not reveal who the buyers were, only that they hadseveral other Cape properties and are extremely private. 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. After nearly four months on the market for the listing price of $19.8 million the Osterville, Massachusetts, estate, whichincluded some of the last gardens designed by Mellon, found a buyer. Jackie Onassis, 19 years her junior, died in 1994; Paul Mellon died five years later after a lingering illness. 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. [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. In somewhat of a taste of what was to come, Mellon was visited by the FBI as part of a federal grand jury probe into Edwards' handling of campaign funds, and was reportedly thrilled by the experience. "It was just terrible because I trusted him, and we're in sort of a hole because of that, and it hasn't been returned," admits Mellon, who is in danger of losing another $6 million in investments made by Starr that are now underwater. Rachel Lambert Mellon (August 9, 1910 March 17, 2014), often known as Bunny Mellon, was an American horticulturalist, gardener, philanthropist, and art collector. Her friend Bette Midler performed her hit song The Rose. A previous auction of Mellon possessions brought in $218.1 million in 2014 for the Gerard B. Lambert Foundation. Eliza predeceased her mother. In it she wrote: Bunnyon your birthday. Rachel Lowe Lambert Lloyd Mellons mother gave her the pet name, Bunny, which stuck with her throughout her life, Huffman said. 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. 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. Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. Eventually I will get rid of it, if only because the thought of someone else carting it to a secondhand shop after my own death is too depressing. 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 decided to settle on his wife. Stepping up to the polls with Paul, Bunny said, she found she didnt have anything to write with. "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. Young described how the campaign used the so-called Bunny Money to hide Hunter. Initially blocked from doing so by the National Park Service, Williams secretly removed the trees from the Tidal Basin and transported them to the White House himself. Raphael, Sandra, Heins, Greg, Tomasi, Lucia Tongiorgi, and Willis, Tony. [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. Bunny Mellon, ne Rachel Lowe Lambert, was not just a social figure. Even before she married Paul Mellon a philanthropist, "I may not be here a year from now," she tells me. 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. Mellon eventually gave Edwards more than $6 million, Young said. 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. 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. 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. 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. Her recent collection isWaiting for Charlie: Mercenary Soldiers, Failed States, and the Love That Means More Than Money. [7] Her parents divorced in 1933, and both subsequently remarried. July 25, 2011, 10:10 AM. [17][10], Mellon designed landscapes for many of the Mellons' properties, including the French-inspired gardens of their estate, Oak Spring Farms. They divorced in 1948. Bunny Mellon has outlived most of her intimates. As her lawyer Alex Forger puts it, "She's well off, but her assets are not liquid. Mellon was the second wife of philanthropist and horse breeder Paul Mellon. 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. the fact that you are splashed in the Daily News, she wrote to accompany a piece about RFKs funeral that she mailed to Bunny. [27], Mellon's second husband, Paul Mellon, died in 1999, aged 91. 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. ", 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. 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). Huffman said his friend remained in good spirits despite the Edwards distraction. Susan Zakin was born in New York City, where she attended the Brearley School and Columbia Universitys Graduate School of Journalism. A jury later acquitted him on a campaign finance charge and deadlocked on five other felony counts. Until she neared 100 she practiced pilates daily, which she learned from the master Joseph Pilates in the 1950s. ", The centenarian's friends view her tolerant attitude to John Edwards's affair as an outgrowth of her own marital experiences. Lloyd, her grandson, says, "I don't think there's ever going to be a moment for her to sit back and reflect. 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. [17] Mellon amassed a large collection of horticultural books and was regarded as an authority on American horticulture. 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. Yet Bunny Mellon cheerfully carries on. Ironically, Bunnys own interiors and her landscapes, public as well as private, were purposefully designed not to draw attention to themselves. She reportedly told friends the senator reminded her of John F. Kennedy, whose wife Jackie O. was a close friend, the Daily Beast reported. Mellon believed a ladys name should only appear in the newspaper three times: for her debut, her marriage and her obituary, Huffman said. 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. Wendy Gimbel, a biographer, critic, and redoubtable interpreter of the meaning of fashion, remarked that the clothes in the 2002 Metropolitan Museums Costume Institute show, Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years, were dowdy. [11] Her work was strongly influenced by French gardeners Andr Le Ntre and Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie. The indictment quotes a note from Mellon: "I was sitting alone in a grim mood, furious that the press attacked Senator Edwards on the price of a haircut. Huffman introduced Mellon to John Edwards in 2006. Bunny had the Pittsburgh Mellons to deal with; Jackie had the football-playing Kennedys and their constant togetherness in Hyannis Port, which she often found trying. [10] In a 1969 New York Times article with the Mellons, she proclaimed that "nothing should be noticed. Letitia Baldrige, Jackie's White House social secretary, recalls, "They were very close. Mellon was not accused of breaking any laws. She was born into a well-to-do Princeton family. 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. Bunnys presents were more extravagant than Jackies and often featured a surprise. Small wonder that Bunny and Jackie Kennedy, introduced in 1957, would become confidantes. Thats the antithesis of what her style would be, he said. [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. Her days of pruning in the garden are over, but she still swims and does Pilates. His view of his grandmother's relationship with Edwards? 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. Her grandfather, Jordan W. Lambert, created Listerine. She was forced to give up gardening by 2011, although she continued to swim, do Pilates, and give the rare interview. "[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. "'Just think!'" Breaking New Ground in Womens Paths to Fulfillment: A Conversation with Ruthellen Josselson. Bunny was a society figure with an almost pathological dislike for publicity, a trait she shared with her husband. On Halloween in 1961 the Wildenstein & Co. Manhattan gallery opened a charity exhibition of Schlumbergers jewels, which included some of Bunnys pieces. Gordon, a veteran journalist, is the author ofMrs. The guest house comes with two separate bedrooms and bathrooms, a kitchen and a laundry room. [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. She had been an admirer from afar, buying an ad in her local newspaper three years earlier trumpeting Edwards's candidacy. 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. She has always cared greatly beyond herself., Her grandson, Lloyd, said, I think she was trying to help (Edwards) for the right reasons, believed in him, and I think frankly he just took advantage of a lot of opportunities that she gave him.. 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. She was loyal beyond anything and we gave each other space. 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.. 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 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. According to the indictment, Huffman signed over the checks to Young. She was also a great landscape and interior designer at the intersection of history and style. ", 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." 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