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Date Posted: 16:37:35 03/11/05 Fri
In reply to:
Yas
's message, "Re: Frank Sinatra and Jackie" on 15:51:56 03/11/05 Fri
Who knows how much (if any) is true...
EXCERPTS FROM “A WOMAN NAMED JACKIE” BY C. DAVID HEYMANN, PART ONE
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, June 18, 1989
...There was conjecture that Jackie's many trips away from Washington were prompted in large degree by disgust with her husband's attentions to other women, particularly Marilyn Monroe, who, disguised in a brunette wig, large sunglasses and an old dress, stayed with Kennedy at the Hotel Carlyle in New York, traveled with him aboard Air Force One (the crew was told that she was Peter Lawford's private secretary) and stayed with him at the Lawford beach house in Santa Monica, Calif.
''She was crazy about Jack,'' Peter Lawford said. ''She devised all sorts of madcap fantasies with herself in the starring role. She would have his children. She would take Jackie's place as first lady. The fact that he was president allowed her to attach a lot of symbolic meaning to the affair. It was only a lark for him, but she really fell for the guy, for what he represented. In her depressive and doped-out state, she began to fall in love with him - or she convinced herself she was in love, which is basically the same thing.
''Besides telephoning Jack at the White House, she used to send him copies of her love poetry, most of it written early in her career. Then one day she told me she had telephoned Jackie at the White House. For all her romanticism and masochism, Marilyn could also be a mean little bitch. Everybody wrote her up as being the poor, helpless victim, but that wasn't always the case.
''According to Marilyn, Jackie wasn't shaken by the call. Not outwardly. She agreed to step aside. She would divorce Jack and Marilyn could marry him, but she would have to move into the White House. If Marilyn wasn't prepared to live openly in the White House, she might as well forget about it.
''Actually Jackie was infuriated by the call, and for some reason blamed Frank Sinatra for it. She couldn't easily blame me because I was family, so she took it out on him,'' Lawford said.
It was Jackie's sense of independence, her recognition that she and Jack needed to be apart occasionally, that helped sustain their marriage.
''Jackie had the whip hand insofar as she cared little what people thought and could therefore walk out of the White House any day if so disposed,'' Lawford observed. ''She also knew that Jack was jealous of her seeing other men because he was convinced that she was doing the same things he was doing. She played on that jealousy in retaliation for his affairs and felt pleased and somewhat reassured when he responded...
JACKIE; HER FRIENDS FINALLY TALK! JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS, BY EDWARD KLEIN
GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, November 1989
...Given Jacqueline Onassis's ambivalent attitude about true confessions, it is fascinating to see what she has chosen as her life's work. She spends three days a week--Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays--as an editor at Doubleday. There, she sits in a cramped corner office on the twentieth floor, whispering intently into the telephone and trying to persuade famous people to tell all in their autobiographies. Ballerina Gelsey Kirkland, for example, has succumbed twice to Jackie's persuasive charms; the second volume of her memoirs will appear early in 1990. Frank Sinatra, who has been one of the hottest names in Jackie's tickleer file for years, still holds out when she calls...
THE JACKIE O YOU DIDN'T KNOW
NEW YORK POST, February 7, 1998
...Single in New York, Jackie had no shortage of famous men to squire her around town, but her secret relationship with Sinatra raised eyebrows because of his animosity toward the Kennedys, the book [“Jackie After Jack”] says.
The two managed to keep the romance under wraps, using decoy escorts to fool the press and arranging "chance" meetings at restaurants and clubs.
"I suppose they reminded each other of happier times," said Nancy Dickerson, who knew both. "A dalliance, if you will, seemed logical."
The liaison didn't move beyond the dalliance stage because Sinatra wasn't young enough for Jackie, the book says.
"Jackie had lost her taste for domineering older men," author Truman Capote is quoted as saying. "She didn't need any more sugar daddies in her life telling her what to do.
"She wanted to be the one to call the shots for a change, so she started looking around for some young stuff."...
JACKIE AFTER JACK - NEW BOOK SAYS ONASSIS SCOURED GOSSIP SHEETS
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, February 7, 1998
...But her life was clearly not common. The book describes several secret, late-night rendezvous with Frank Sinatra, who is quoted as telling a friend in recent years, "Look at all the crap she has had to put up with in life, and still she can laugh. . . . I was in love with her once."...
..."Jackie and [Frank] Sinatra met in the early morning hours at various watering holes around New York — Jimmy Weston's, P.J. Clarke's and '21' among them. Occasionally, Jackie would go to the theater or the ballet on the arm of one decoy escort, only to 'bump into' Sinatra at a pre-arranged restaurant or nightclub."...
DEVOTED DIAMOND MERCHANT IS THE JEWEL OF HER NEW YORK [EXCERPTS FROM ‘AMERICA’S QUEEN’]
USA TODAY, October 20, 2000
...In the garage below the apartment, Bunny Mellon had been organizing the heaps of flowers that had been pouring in -- among them two dozen red roses from Frank Sinatra, with the message "You are America's Queen."...
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, RUSH AND MOLLOY, FEBRUARY 3, 2000
Another scandalous bio of the Kennedys is on the way. But this time the family's official mouth-pieces don't need to express a word of outrage. Other Kennedy demythologizers are doing it for them.
Rival clan-chroniclers are ganging up on J. Randy Taraborrelli, author of the new "Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of Camelot."...
...Jackie Kennedy and Frank Sinatra: Taraborrelli stands by his story that the former First Lady spent the night at the Chairman's Waldorf suite in 1975. Spoto doesn't buy it, nor does Heymann, who calls the tale "off the wall and completely out of character for both Jackie and Sinatra."...
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