1700 Oil on canvas. Bunny Mellon, peerless stylemaker, noted art collector, and philanthropist, lived a life of privilege mixed with sadness, as presented in Meryl Gordons biography, 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. She was also a great landscape and interior designer at the intersection of history and style. Eliza predeceased her mother. 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. 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. Rendered a paraplegic and unable to speak, Eliza was transported to her mother's farm for round-the-clock care, surviving for eight years. As society bandleader Peter Duchin says, "Bunny is a person with wonderful taste. Like her billionaire philanthropist husband, Paul Mellon, and [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. Repeatedly in her letters over the years, Jackie apologized for the attention that being her friend brought Bunny. During Camelot, Mellon was ever-present at the White House, quietly underwriting Jackie's extravagant entertaining. But Mellon was back in the news on Thursday thanks to the alleged financial misdeeds of her long-time financier, Kenneth Starr. Even before she married Paul Mellon a philanthropist, I want to come back to see you, and be near you again. Paul Mellon, a renowned art collector, philanthropist and thoroughbred breeder, died in 1999 at age 91. 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. 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Jackie honored her friends creative achievementssomething that Bunny welcomed. 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. But there was more to the story: her gardens were an escape. She turned to her husband, a lifelong Republican, who said he certainly wasnt going to lend her his pen! A Cape Cod estate formerlyowned by socialite Rachel Bunny Lambert Mellon has been sold for $19 million. Her friend Bette Midler performed her hit song The Rose. 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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She was born into a well-to-do Princeton family. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. 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. A well-groomed young woman is trailing her, but Mellon seems miraculously able for a 99-year-old. . Then she adds, "I'm very busy. Bunny Mellon breaks her silence on John Edwards, insists they were great friends. Rachel "Bunny" Lambert Mellon 29, one of Foxcrofts oldest and most illustrious alumnae, died Monday (March 17) at her home in Fauquier County, VA. She For a woman who spurns publicity, this has been a rough year. 20 (Yellow Expanse), completed in 1955 was considered one of the largest Rothko works in private hands. According to Crocker, Lloyd was thrilled the buyers were interested in preserving the home as it is. Cristofaro Munari, attrib. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Mellon died of natural causes at her 4,000-acre estate in Upperville, Va., her lawyer told The New York Times. Style included a great deal more than the cut of clothing or a period of interior decoration. This exposure whetted her appetite for political influence, an appetite she would eventually seek to satisfy in her relationship with Senator John Edwards. "I thought the church was charming and sent her a little note," he recalls. Her interests in gardening were first cultivated while watching Olmsted Brothers gardeners tend her family's New Jersey home. [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. Caroline Kennedy, daughter of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, sat beside Mrs. Mellon during the funeral. [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. 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. ", 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." She didnt think it trivialized Averyand if it did, that didnt matter, as it was hers. [18] Mellon created more open space for public ceremonies and introduced American species of plants, as well as Magnolia soulangeana. [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. But so great a talent could not remain forever hidden and neither will yours. 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.. Trescher mentioned how surprised hed been at first to find that Mrs. Mac Griswold is the author of The Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island, Washington's Gardens at Mount Vernon, and The Golden Age of American Gardens. That was the best part. My grandmother began a multi-year renovation of the main house beginning in 1978, Lloyd told House Beautiful. Every item on this page was chosen by a townandcountrymag editor. 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. At debutante balls, fundraisers, and art openings, Ill Build a Stairway to Paradise shows how Mellon became a tastemaker. [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). John F. Kennedy and Bunny Mellon together on Cape Cod. "I have to tell you, my dear, I hate publicity," said Rachel "Bunny" Mellon. Only two years before Jackie won her settlement, Paul Mellon, for the first time and thanks to Forger, had settled an annual $500,000 on Bunny, allegedly for charity, meaning that she no longer had to ask her husband for every cent of his money she spent. According to the indictment, Edwards and his aide Andrew Young asked her for personal cash for the senator. Lloyd reiterates that John Edwards remains in his grandmother's good graces. Her art collection included a Rothko reportedly worth $125 million. Her appetite for prestige, although ever discreet, only increased with her second marriage, to Mellon, in 1948. ", 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. Mellon believed a ladys name should only appear in the newspaper three times: for her debut, her marriage and her obituary, Huffman said. Bunny was a society figure with an almost pathological dislike for publicity, a trait she shared with her husband. Griswold has mined Bunny Mellons personal archives for journal entries, poems, and photographs. 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. 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. The estate on the private islandof Oyster Harbors overlooksNantucket Sound and Marthas Vineyard. Mrs. Mellon had exquisite taste, and what Jackie admired most of all was the way she taught other people.". She wanted visitors to her own gardens and the gardens she designed for others to feel transported to another world. [17] In France, Mellon created a landscape design for the home of Hubert de Givenchy and assisted with a restoration of the potager du Roi in Versailles. Their particular combination of money (Bunnys) and fame (Jackies) made them formidable. A 350 year old house, the main property consists of seven bedrooms and five full baths with270 degrees of water views, the listing states. 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. 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. She was not looking for an ambassadorial appointment, Huffman said. "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. ", 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. Breaking New Ground in Womens Paths to Fulfillment: A Conversation with Ruthellen Josselson. I don't mind being 100, I can cope with that, but not seeing is very scary." 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. One of the works, No. 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. Raphael, Sandra, Heins, Greg, Tomasi, Lucia Tongiorgi, and Willis, Tony. The two women took to one another at once. All Rights Reserved. Novelist Jane Stanton Hitchcock, who with her mother, Joan Alexander, alerted authorities to Starr's scam, explains, "The Mellons were the gold standard of integrity, and my parents felt that Ken would live up to their trust. (Italian, 1667 1720) A quince, an apple, two lemons, and three blue and white cups], ca. Her father did not believe that a young woman of her generation was worth sending to college; she would spend eternity proving him wrong. Jackie Onassis, 19 years her junior, died in 1994; Paul Mellon died five years later after a lingering illness. Just one week prior to his indictment, in late May 2011, Edwards visited Mellon at her Upperville estate. 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 had been an admirer from afar, buying an ad in her local newspaper three years earlier trumpeting Edwards's candidacy. Her close friendship with Bunny would give her the privacy, affection, and depth of understanding to help bear the weight of that armor. WebIn May 2000, Bunny's daughter from her first marriage, Eliza Lloyd, was crossing the street in Manhattan when she was hit by a truck, suffering a severe brain injury. She was loyal beyond anything and we gave each other space. The two shared a childlike imagination and enthusiasm that, as Jackie herself said, seems to flicker out in so many adults. J. It is a way to help our friend without government restrictions.'?" The guest house comes with two separate bedrooms and bathrooms, a kitchen and a laundry room. 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. Then her daughter was fatally hit in a car accident, and she threw herself even deeper into her career. One small but bracing example that Bunny related to me was about the renowned poet Robert Lowell, who ran into the two women one afternoon Bunny didnt say whereand asked, Could I have dinner with you girls? clearly imagining that of course they would want to do so, as almost anyone else might have. Bunnys presents were more extravagant than Jackies and often featured a surprise. Susan Zakin was born in New York City, where she attended the Brearley School and Columbia Universitys Graduate School of Journalism. Just plain bad." They were friends with the Kennedys and entertained Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles. In her patrician voice she adds, "I'll have to put my trust in you and God. On November 25, 1932, Lambert married Stacy Barcroft Lloyd Jr. of Ardmore, Pennsylvania, at Trinity Church, Princeton. Jackie Kennedy excitedly attends the Princeton Librarys 1989 opening of. the fact that you are splashed in the Daily News, she wrote to accompany a piece about RFKs funeral that she mailed to Bunny. She minded her own life and she felt deeply . These properties were sold in the years preceding her death. Trescherwith Bunny in her special role as collaborator/directorhad orchestrated Caroline Kennedys wedding in 1985. She designed and planted a number of significant gardens, including the White House Rose Garden, and assembled one of the largest collections of rare horticultural books. 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 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 . 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. (The Kennedy biographer Sally Bedell Smith quotes Jackie as saying to Ted Kennedys wife, Joan, All Kennedy men are like that . Scarred by his parents' acrimonious divorce, Paul proved to be an emotionally remote husband with a wandering eye. "'Just think!'" 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. Starr. The last standing true American aristocrat.. Forger, then at the white- shoe law firm of Milbank, Tweed, eventually worked exclusively for Bunny, who set up an elegant office for him and his staff on West 57th Street in New York City. They would talk about flowers for hours, mesmerized by one another's company. 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. Jane Stanton Hitchcock says, "Jackie told me that she thought Bunny was a visual genius." Jackie and Bunny sometimes looked for happiness together on real estate adventures, finding the escape they dreamed of. 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. 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 gardens carefully designed by the late Mellon, include flower gardens, herb and vegetable gardens. MANHATTAN Listerine heiress and philanthropist Rachel 'Bunny' Mellon has preferred to shun the media spotlight since long before her financial largesse became "I may not be here a year from now," she tells me. Jackie Kennedy and Bunny Mellon, whose friendship is explored in Mac Griswolds new book. His view of his grandmother's relationship with Edwards? [4][14], On March 17, 2014, Mellon died at her Upperville, Virginia, home of natural causes. Until recently the philanthropist, whose net worth exceeds $400 million, was primarily known as a passionate gardener and discreet woman with a discerning eye. [31] During this period Mellon wrote a note to Young stating: "from now on, all haircuts, etc. Mellon, now blind, lives in luxurious seclusion on her 2,000-acre Virginia farm, cosseted by a staff of 120 loyal retainers. After Gerard B.s death in 1967, they prospected on Nantucket, where Bunny bought two hundred acres of coastal heathland and old pasture with the money her father had left her. 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. A previous auction of Mellon possessions brought in $218.1 million in 2014 for the Gerard B. Lambert Foundation. You dont even have to talk. "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. According to Bunny, Jackie said coolly, Absolutely not. Lowell then said, Well, what are you going to do? Jackie answered him by saying, Well, weve got it all planned, and that was that.. Most distressing is her loss of vision. [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. Lambert attended Miss Fine's School (Princeton, New Jersey) and the Foxcroft School (Middleburg, Virginia). Both women shared a profound belief in the absolute ability of style to carry real meaning. 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. 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. Both she and Jackie were crowded by more people than they had time for. Jackie August 9, 1979. [25] Proceeds from the sales benefited the Gerard B. 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