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. 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. Shes not sitting around in velvet covered gold chairs. [4][29] Caroline Kennedy, daughter of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, sat beside Mrs. Mellon during the funeral. 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.. But Mellon was back in the news on Thursday thanks to the alleged financial misdeeds of her long-time financier, Kenneth Starr. women hell-bent on making their daughters marriageable. "It's a crush." I don't mind being 100, I can cope with that, but not seeing is very scary." Hers is a regime of no tolerance for the mediocre. She had little patience for those she considered superficial or boring and chose her friends carefully. This story has been shared 107,512 times. 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. Rendered a The gardens carefully designed by the late Mellon, include flower gardens, herb and vegetable gardens. in 2005. After their divorce, she married his friend Paul Mellon at the time, reportedly, the worlds richest man. Even now she is making improvements. I know youll hate . Friends said Mellon should be remembered more for her contributions to the world of horticulture, art and fashion than the scandal that marked her last years. . [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 is without the trappings someone would associate with an heiress.. Bunny Mellon, peerless stylemaker, noted art collector, and philanthropist, lived a life of privilege mixed with sadness, as presented in Meryl Gordons biography, 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. ", 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." MANHATTAN Listerine heiress and philanthropist Rachel 'Bunny' Mellon has preferred to shun the media spotlight since long before her financial largesse became He claims, "Bunny and I were the last people on earth who knew about the girlfriend and the baby. But there was more to the story: her gardens were an escape. Mellon died of natural causes at her 4,000-acre estate in Upperville, Va., her lawyer told The New York Times. 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'". 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. The two women often celebrated their summer birthdays together. she told a friend after the visit from the feds, Daily Beast reported. Bunny Mellon, in her Oak Spring Garden Library. His affairs were an open secret. Rachel Lambert Mellon (August 9, 1910 March 17, 2014), often known as Bunny Mellon, was an American horticulturalist, gardener, philanthropist, and art collector. Indeed. The estate, known as Scallop Path, includes three separate structures, including the main property, the guest house and a chimney house. Yet when Sam Kasten of Nantucket Looms, a company that wove custom fabrics for her, wrote her that his visit to the Garden Library at Oak Spring was a life-changing event, she called him in tears. . 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. "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 Strange Promise of a Genuine Squirrel Coat. 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. 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. The estate on the private islandof Oyster Harbors overlooksNantucket Sound and Marthas Vineyard. 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. I want to come back to see you, and be near you again. 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. The estate also holds a boathouse and a garage. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. 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. 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. "I'm going along on very weak wheels." One of her grandfathers, chemist Jordan Lambert, invented Listerine, but it was her father, Gerard Lambert, an advertising innovator, who turned it into a hit product by marketing the antiseptic as a cure for halitosis. They would talk about flowers for hours, mesmerized by one another's company. Starr. Ill Build a Stairway to Paradise spans the full 103 years of Bunny Mellons life. 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. Until she neared 100 she practiced pilates daily, which she learned from the master Joseph Pilates in the 1950s. She soon began to support him with an increasing number of campaign contributions. Jane Stanton Hitchcock says, "Jackie told me that she thought Bunny was a visual genius." Mellon spent some of her childhood at Carter Hall, an 18th century mansion in Virginias Shenandoah Valley. Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. You dont even have to talk. The doyenne of high society is the widow of Paul Mellon, a billionaire art patron and racehorse breeder. 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. She was born into a well-to-do Princeton family. Bunny tolerated his paramours, even inviting one mistress to join them at their Antigua estate. 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. Her grandfather, Jordan W. Lambert, created Listerine. Ill Build a Stairway to Paradise by Mac Griswold (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) is available online and in stores now. These resources reveal how many of her designs were derived from fairy tales. My grandmother began a multi-year renovation of the main house beginning in 1978, Lloyd told House Beautiful. 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.. Huffman, who introduced Mellon to Edwards, said the former presidential candidate reminded her of John Kennedy. Gordon, a veteran journalist, is the author ofMrs. She lives in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. [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. Given Paul and Bunnys emerging stature in philanthropy and the arts, and Jackies celebrity, when Bunny and Jackie joined forces for a cause, they invariably succeeded. The Fall of Feminism: Jessa Crispins Why I Am Not A Feminist. 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.. Mellon's second husband, Paul Mellon, died in 1999, aged 91. Her days of pruning in the garden are over, but she still swims and does Pilates. [21], After Jacqueline Kennedy left the White House, Mellon was asked to design landscapes for Kennedy's home in Martha's Vineyard, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, and River Farm, the headquarters of the American Horticultural Society. 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. Her appetite for prestige, although ever discreet, only increased with her second marriage, to Mellon, in 1948. But Mellon struck up new life-affirming friendships with much younger, artistic men. Mellon sent checks to Huffman inside boxes of chocolate, and Huffman would direct them to the campaign, Young wrote. Ironically, Bunnys own interiors and her landscapes, public as well as private, were purposefully designed not to draw attention to themselves. Mellon was a legend in design and gardening circles who had a low-key style that was eloquent but unpretentious, Huffman said. [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. Eliza predeceased her mother. Then her daughter was fatally hit in a car accident, and she threw herself even deeper into her career. In going through her papers in the months after her death, I found that she had wrapped many important keepsakes, such as gifts from her Grandpa Lowe, in white paper and tied them up with a blue ribbon, using the two colors as signals to show how precious the things were to her. 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. [31] During this period Mellon wrote a note to Young stating: "from now on, all haircuts, etc. Mrs. Mellon had exquisite taste, and what Jackie admired most of all was the way she taught other people.". (Italian, 1667 1720) A quince, an apple, two lemons, and three blue and white cups], ca. Every choice of a color was eloquent. As society bandleader Peter Duchin says, "Bunny is a person with wonderful taste. They reportedly had homes in Antigua, Paris, New York, Washington, Nantucket and Cape Cod, and a mile-long runway for their private jet. [14] In December 2010, four of her relatives were subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury.[33]. The True Story of Jackie & Bunny's Friendship, Randall Hagadorn / Courtesy of Gerard B. Lambert III, Mark Shaw Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis Personal Papers John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images, Jackie Kennedy and Queen Elizabeth's Relationship, Your Privacy Choices: Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads. [10] In a 1969 New York Times article with the Mellons, she proclaimed that "nothing should be noticed. At debutante balls, fundraisers, and art openings, Ill Build a Stairway to Paradise shows how Mellon became a tastemaker. 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. The aide used the money to pay expenses for Rielle Hunter and his own family, as they lived together during much of Hunter's pregnancy to maintain the charade. This page was last edited on 20 November 2022, at 15:10. "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. [14], Mellon was a long-time Democrat whose political views often conflicted with those of her husband. 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. A previous auction of Mellon possessions brought in $218.1 million in 2014 for the Gerard B. Lambert Foundation. "[32] The funds were secretly used to support Rielle Hunter, a campaign videographer with whom Edwards had an extra-marital affair and child. Paul Mellon, a renowned art collector, philanthropist and thoroughbred breeder, died in 1999 at age 91. According to the indictment, Huffman signed over the checks to Young. 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. 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. A well-groomed young woman is trailing her, but Mellon seems miraculously able for a 99-year-old. 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. Just plain bad." "They were on the same wavelength," says one of Isabell's friends. Bunny was a society figure with an almost pathological dislike for publicity, a trait she shared with her husband. The following month, Mellon's lawyer told the Manhattan District Attorney's office that the transfer was never requested nor approved, the complaint says. 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. One soon realized that her social graces masked tremendous awareness, an all-seeing eye, ruthless judgment, and a steely purpose., The two women enjoyed dismissing people who thought they had the right to intrude on their friendship and privacy. She is building what she calls a "memory house," a building that will feature artwork by her daughter, Eliza, who died in 2008, as well as photographs and objects from a lifetime of gracious living. In 2010, it was reported that Mellon had lost $5.75 million to investment adviser and convicted Ponzi scheme operator Kenneth I. 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." Rachel Lowe Lambert Lloyd Mellons mother gave her the pet name, Bunny, which stuck with her throughout her life, Huffman said. In her patrician voice she adds, "I'll have to put my trust in you and God. She was forced to give up gardening by 2011, although she continued to swim, do Pilates, and give the rare interview. Jackie Kennedy and Bunny Mellon in Paris together in the 1960s. Sandra Lees Revenge Romance Takes a Twist, Mugrabi Divorce Settled: "She Asked for $100 Million", Gianna Reisen is Transforming the NYCB, One Step at a Time, Kai Thomass Debut Novel is Historical Fiction at its Best, Janet Malcolm Finally Covers the One Subject She Avoided: Herself. 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. 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. I can't write, but I dictate, I talk to people. Most of her modern-art collection will be sold, along with three quarters of the acreage of the farm. She is not afraid to face the future. She minded her own life and she felt deeply . She was a poor Bouvier, by the standards of the society in which she moved. She goes over daily to inquire about construction, a woman caught between present and past. She was not looking for an ambassadorial appointment, Huffman said. B. As it was being built, the two women considered its furnishings. For a woman who spurns publicity, this has been a rough year. Calm it down, calm it down.". 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 Bunny Mellon, ne Rachel Lowe Lambert, was not just a social figure. A 350 year old house, the main property consists of seven bedrooms and five full baths with270 degrees of water views, the listing states. She contributed more than $3.5 million to Edwards's issues organization and to PACs supporting his candidacy. Just one week prior to his indictment, in late May 2011, Edwards visited Mellon at her Upperville estate. It is a way to help our friend without government restrictions. 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. the fact that you are splashed in the Daily News, she wrote to accompany a piece about RFKs funeral that she mailed to Bunny. We've received your submission. 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. 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. Trescherwith Bunny in her special role as collaborator/directorhad orchestrated Caroline Kennedys wedding in 1985. 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. Jackie August 9, 1979. [2][3] Her paternal grandfather, chemist Jordan Lambert, was the inventor of Listerine, which was later marketed by her father. Their particular combination of money (Bunnys) and fame (Jackies) made them formidable. [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. "I had a serious operation a little while ago, and ever since then I've been very, very weak," Mellon says. 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. Thanks for contacting us. "That's why I want to do this story now," I reply. Bunny poured her nesting urge into the creation of many perfect houses for Paul and the children. 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. She had endured worse, including the 2008 death of her daughter Eliza, who had been left quadriplegic when hit by a car years earlier. 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. . Crocker would not reveal who the buyers were, only that they hadseveral other Cape properties and are extremely private. But it inspired me: 'From now on, all haircuts, etc., that are important for his campaign, please send the bills to me. She was 103. Bunnys daughter eliza, bunny mellon, and jackie kennedy sit at breakfast at kings leap, antigua. All-Star and perfect game pitcher dead at 62 UPPERVILLE, Va. Rachel Bunny Mellon, a wealthy arts and fashion patron, friend of first lady Jacqueline Kennedy 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. [17][10], Mellon designed landscapes for many of the Mellons' properties, including the French-inspired gardens of their estate, Oak Spring Farms. . She was loyal beyond anything and we gave each other space. She had a son, Stacy Barcroft Lloyd III, and two step-children, Timothy Mellon and Catherine Warner. 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. Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 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. He warned her that she should shun celebrity and stick to becoming a myth. Her art collection included a Rothko reportedly worth $125 million. Even as a child, Bunny had depicted her surroundings in sketches and paintings. 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. 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 eventually gave Edwards more than $6 million, Young said. Both she and Jackie were crowded by more people than they had time for. 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 women shared a profound belief in the absolute ability of style to carry real meaning. The two women took to one another at once. 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." Griswold has mined Bunny Mellons personal archives for journal entries, poems, and photographs. In it she wrote: Bunnyon your birthday. She had been an admirer from afar, buying an ad in her local newspaper three years earlier trumpeting Edwards's candidacy. Young described how the campaign used the so-called Bunny Money to hide Hunter. Her father did not believe that a young woman of her generation was worth sending to college; she would spend eternity proving him wrong. "Bunny gave him validation, after all those ass-kissing socialites who mistreated him. She reportedly told friends the senator reminded her of John F. Kennedy, whose wife Jackie O. was a close friend, the Daily Beast reported. She and Paul Mellon supported many philanthropic endeavors, but were also known to indulge. We've received your submission. ", 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. 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It is a way to help our friend without government restrictions.'?" Lloyd reiterates that John Edwards remains in his grandmother's good graces. [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. The DNAinfo archives brought to you by WNYC.Read the press release here. . Ever since she married Paul Mellon in 1948, she has been consumed by turning his Virginia farm into a magnificent showcase. She's a classic, the epitome of a society that is no longer with us.". Tales straight out of A Thousand and One Nights, some true, some apocryphal, gathered around the pair and their friendship. John Edwards turned away from Bunny Mellon's memorial by her family | Daily Mail Online. Lambert attended Miss Fine's School (Princeton, New Jersey) and the Foxcroft School (Middleburg, Virginia). ", The Edwards episode has baffled and upset Mellon's family. 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