. Thats the antithesis of what her style would be, he said. The Feminist Uses of Narrative Fiction: Jill Filipovics The H-Spot and the Search for Womens Happiness. Shes not sitting around in velvet covered gold chairs. She liked what he said about the Two Americas,' Huffman said. 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. "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. I have so much to do.". . [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. Bunny opined that ones bed was important, because it held so many thoughts. Jackie agreed, saying, It is a celebration, a bed, and then Bunny decided they should design one for her. [7][36] Her funeral was held at Trinity Episcopal Church in Upperville, which the Mellons had gifted to the community in 1960. The estate, known as Scallop Path, includes three separate structures, including the main property, the guest house and a chimney house. "[32] The funds were secretly used to support Rielle Hunter, a campaign videographer with whom Edwards had an extra-marital affair and child. 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. 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. Mellon comes across as a woman with her faculties fully intact. 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. Beneath their perfect society manners and oddly similar whispering voices ran an electric current of power. According to the indictment, Edwards and his aide Andrew Young asked her for personal cash for the senator. 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. Copyright 2009-2018, New York Public Radio. They had two children: Stacy Barcroft Lloyd III, and Eliza Winn Lloyd. One weekend in June, she beamed as her 3-year-old great-granddaughter, Fiona, put stickers all over her arms. Jackie August 9, 1979. But it inspired me: 'From now on, all haircuts, etc., that are important for his campaign, please send the bills to me. She had been raised in a family that believed a woman should not advertise herself, and yet its clear that she wanted some sort of recognition for the importance of her work, especially for the Rose Garden. Letitia Baldrige, Jackie's White House social secretary, recalls, "They were very close. I can't write, but I dictate, I talk to people. He warned her that she should shun celebrity and stick to becoming a myth. 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. 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. . Trescher mentioned how surprised hed been at first to find that Mrs. She had been an admirer from afar, buying an ad in her local newspaper three years earlier trumpeting Edwards's candidacy. 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. She turned to her husband, a lifelong Republican, who said he certainly wasnt going to lend her his pen! 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.. Ted Kennedy with Bunny Mellon in Cambridge, Mass. 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. She soon began to support him with an increasing number of campaign contributions. This exposure whetted her appetite for political influence, an appetite she would eventually seek to satisfy in her relationship with Senator John Edwards. 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. . [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. He pleaded not guilty and is preparing for trial this fall. ", 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. For most of her 103 years, Rachel Bunny Lambert Mellon kept secret the intimate details of her life. However, her best and dearest families were made up of friends who shared her passions and tastes. Mellon died of natural causes at her 4,000-acre estate in Upperville, Va., her lawyer told The New York Times. The Fall of Feminism: Jessa Crispins Why I Am Not A Feminist. "Jackie Kennedy Onassis and I were the best of friends," Mellon recalls, her voice wistful in memory. July 25, 2011, 10:10 AM. Huffman said his friend remained in good spirits despite the Edwards distraction. "She is just shocked.". 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. 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. Her father did not believe that a young woman of her generation was worth sending to college; she would spend eternity proving him wrong. 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." Style included a great deal more than the cut of clothing or a period of interior decoration. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Bunny Mellon, peerless stylemaker, noted art collector, and philanthropist, lived a life of privilege mixed with sadness, as presented in Meryl Gordons biography, 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. Mellon also was known for her exquisite taste both in fashion and in decorating. 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. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Until recently the philanthropist, whose net worth exceeds $400 million, was primarily known as a passionate gardener and discreet woman with a discerning eye. Breaking New Ground in Womens Paths to Fulfillment: A Conversation with Ruthellen Josselson. Settling in Virginia, they had a circle that included Paul Mellon, the wealthy son of Herbert Hoover's Treasury secretary. Gordon, a veteran journalist, is the author ofMrs. A jury later acquitted him on a campaign finance charge and deadlocked on five other felony counts. [15], Described as a resilient centenarian, a bout with cancer[35] and ongoing macular degeneration nonetheless slowed her activity. Thanks for contacting us. 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. 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. 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. 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. "It's been like falling down the rabbit hole with Alice in Wonderland," says Huffman, who rues introducing the heiress to the senator. One of the works, No. . But so great a talent could not remain forever hidden and neither will yours. A Cape Cod estate formerlyowned by socialite Rachel Bunny Lambert Mellon has been sold for $19 million. 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 what a past it was. [10] In a 1969 New York Times article with the Mellons, she proclaimed that "nothing should be noticed. Most distressing is her loss of vision. Until she neared 100 she practiced pilates daily, which she learned from the master Joseph Pilates in the 1950s. Ill Build a Stairway to Paradise spans the full 103 years of Bunny Mellons life. She is without the trappings someone would associate with an heiress.. It's sad that he didn't. [18] Mellon created more open space for public ceremonies and introduced American species of plants, as well as Magnolia soulangeana. "[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 managed to make light of the issues in their own difficult marriages: Pauls relationship with Dorcas Hardin, and JFKs omnivorous promiscuity. Eliza spent the remaining eight years of her life under round-the-clock care at Oak Spring Farms, and died in 2008. 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. Nobody really notices what I do, she said. Jackie, on the other hand, was an outright celebrity, and she quickly gained a new kind of celebrityor notorietywhen she married Aristotle Onassis. 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. After Lambert divorced Lloyd, she and Paul Mellon were married on May 1, 1948. John Edwards turned away from Bunny Mellon's memorial by her family | Daily Mail Online. ", Another friend was Bryan Huffman, a 47-year-old North Carolina decorator who got to know Mellon after visiting a church she helped design and underwrite. 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. 2023 Cohen Media Publications LLC. I remember my earliest summer memories swimming off the dock of the house. 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. Lambert attended Miss Fine's School (Princeton, New Jersey) and the Foxcroft School (Middleburg, Virginia). [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). As her lawyer Alex Forger puts it, "She's well off, but her assets are not liquid. Although charming, its hardly a match for the other treasures on those walls, but it was painted by Jackie and was therefore another precious reminder of their times together. Then her daughter was fatally hit in a car accident, and she threw herself even deeper into her career. 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. We've received your submission. We've received your submission. 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. They would talk about flowers for hours, mesmerized by one another's company. Rendered a She was 103. A key issue: did Edwards solicit the money to salvage his presidential campaign, or was this an attempt to prevent is cancer-stricken wife, Elizabeth, from learning of the romance? After their divorce, she married his friend Paul Mellon at the time, reportedly, the worlds richest man. She attended Foxcroft, a northern Virginia boarding school. 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. Bunny Lloyd made a condolence call; Mellon wrote that she was "very kind and understanding over my distress." 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. "Bunny gave him validation, after all those ass-kissing socialites who mistreated him. 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. 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 [10][22], Mellon gathered a sizable collection of works by artist Mark Rothko, having purchased many of his 1950s works directly from his New York studio. Her grandfather, Jordan W. Lambert, created Listerine. 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. Her interests in gardening were first cultivated while watching Olmsted Brothers gardeners tend her family's New Jersey home. "I have to tell you, my dear, I hate publicity," said Rachel "Bunny" Mellon. 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. Ironically, Bunnys own interiors and her landscapes, public as well as private, were purposefully designed not to draw attention to themselves. Calm it down, calm it down.". She had endured worse, including the 2008 death of her daughter Eliza, who had been left quadriplegic when hit by a car years earlier. Ill Build a Stairway to Paradise spans the full 103 years of Join half a million readers enjoying Newsweek's free newsletters. Ill Build a Stairway to Paradise by Mac Griswold (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) is available online and in stores now. 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. They could move, manipulate, and cutwith finality. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Thanks for contacting us. The Rose Garden would go on to become a place where President John F. Kennedy and presidents after him hosted significant events. Ever since she married Paul Mellon in 1948, she has been consumed by turning his Virginia farm into a magnificent showcase. 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." Scarred by his parents' acrimonious divorce, Paul proved to be an emotionally remote husband with a wandering eye. She contributed more than $3.5 million to Edwards's issues organization and to PACs supporting his candidacy. 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. Rachel Lowe Lambert Lloyd Mellons mother gave her the pet name, Bunny, which stuck with her throughout her life, Huffman said. She quickly divorced her husband, and in May 1948 she and Mellon wed. [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. The two women took to one another at once. [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. Some may find the pacing too leisurely, and the book is at its best when Mellons curious personality comes out in full. Jackie Kennedys home on martha's vineyard, known as red gate farm, would benefit from the guidance and expert gardening of bunny mellon. A family thats been in the area for a couple of generations purchased the property. In her patrician voice she adds, "I'll have to put my trust in you and God. (The Kennedy biographer Sally Bedell Smith quotes Jackie as saying to Ted Kennedys wife, Joan, All Kennedy men are like that . 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. She often developed her garden designs on paper, with particular attention to scale. Bunny poured her nesting urge into the creation of many perfect houses for Paul and the children. Both she and Jackie were crowded by more people than they had time for. Her social climbing didnt always follow an easy path. [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. "I thought the church was charming and sent her a little note," he recalls. 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. Mellon believed a ladys name should only appear in the newspaper three times: for her debut, her marriage and her obituary, Huffman said. "He's done a very good job of maintaining the sense that 'Bunny, I want to be your friend; Bunny, feel sorry for me in this predicament, we'll get through this together,'" says Lloyd. This page was last edited on 20 November 2022, at 15:10. He claims, "Bunny and I were the last people on earth who knew about the girlfriend and the baby. Bunny Mellon breaks her silence on John Edwards, insists they were great friends. Astor Regrets. Starr. "I don't think she's been gullible." I want to come back to see you, and be near you again. the fact that you are splashed in the Daily News, she wrote to accompany a piece about RFKs funeral that she mailed to Bunny. Most of her modern-art collection will be sold, along with three quarters of the acreage of the farm. I know the coats history, so much larger than onewomans, and I can give it a proper send-off. Bunny Mellon, in her Oak Spring Garden Library. [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. The two women often celebrated their summer birthdays together. But Mellon was back in the news on Thursday thanks to the alleged financial misdeeds of her long-time financier, Kenneth Starr. Just one week prior to his indictment, in late May 2011, Edwards visited Mellon at her Upperville estate. "I don't know what I've done that has made people so interested in me, more than anyone else." Paul Mellon, a renowned art collector, philanthropist and thoroughbred breeder, died in 1999 at age 91. A previous auction of Mellon possessions brought in $218.1 million in 2014 for the Gerard B. Lambert Foundation. 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. Each also found in the other a sister more compatible, loyal, and loving than her own. Mellon lived a closely guarded life dominated by the arts, fashion, horses, rare books and extraordinary gardens. A 350 year old house, the main property consists of seven bedrooms and five full baths with270 degrees of water views, the listing states. 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