Pei, Audrey Hepburn, Richard Diebenkorn, Katharine Graham. That was the best part. 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. 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. ", 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. Their particular combination of money (Bunnys) and fame (Jackies) made them formidable. She is without the trappings someone would associate with an heiress.. She contributed more than $3.5 million to Edwards's issues organization and to PACs supporting his candidacy. 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 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. [11] Her work was strongly influenced by French gardeners Andr Le Ntre and Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie. [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. The estate formerly belonged to Mellons grandsonThomas Lloyd, who made the decision to sell the home. Rachel Lowe Lambert Lloyd Mellons mother gave her the pet name, Bunny, which stuck with her throughout her life, Huffman said. Mellon was the second wife of philanthropist and horse breeder Paul Mellon. [11][12] The couple bred and raced thoroughbred horses, including Sea Hero, winner of the 1993 Kentucky Derby. Copyright 2022 by Mac Griswold. Eliza predeceased her mother. 2023 Cohen Media Publications LLC. Bunny tolerated his paramours, even inviting one mistress to join them at their Antigua estate. Mellon, now blind, lives in luxurious seclusion on her 2,000-acre Virginia farm, cosseted by a staff of 120 loyal retainers. His affairs were an open secret. "She called and invited me to lunch.". Ill Build a Stairway to Paradise by Mac Griswold (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) is available online and in stores now. But Mellon was back in the news on Thursday thanks to the alleged financial misdeeds of her long-time financier, Kenneth Starr. Jackie had, in fact, quickly come to understand that she had become a piece of public property and that there was a pressing need to have what she wore in the White House years be a uniform. she told a friend after the visit from the feds, Daily Beast reported. [17][10], Mellon designed landscapes for many of the Mellons' properties, including the French-inspired gardens of their estate, Oak Spring Farms. Mellon was a legend in design and gardening circles who had a low-key style that was eloquent but unpretentious, Huffman said. [14], Mellon was a long-time Democrat whose political views often conflicted with those of her husband. (Italian, 1667 1720) A quince, an apple, two lemons, and three blue and white cups], ca. 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. He said Mellon wrote in her letter, from now on, all haircuts, etc. The following month, Mellon's lawyer told the Manhattan District Attorney's office that the transfer was never requested nor approved, the complaint says. "I had a serious operation a little while ago, and ever since then I've been very, very weak," Mellon says. She had a son, Stacy Barcroft Lloyd III, and two step-children, Timothy Mellon and Catherine Warner. She was born into a well-to-do Princeton family. Mrs. Mellon had exquisite taste, and what Jackie admired most of all was the way she taught other people.". Both women shared a profound belief in the absolute ability of style to carry real meaning. 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. Small wonder that Bunny and Jackie Kennedy, introduced in 1957, would become confidantes. As it was being built, the two women considered its furnishings. The 35-year-old Lloyd, a Washington investment adviser, adds, "As I explained to the jury, imagine a very handsome man who is well liked and respected, and there are two women vying for his affections.". With only a high school education, she frequently had to play catch-up in the sophisticated circles in which she moved, often cultivating powerful men to achieve her goals. 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. All Rights Reserved. Her recent collection isWaiting for Charlie: Mercenary Soldiers, Failed States, and the Love That Means More Than Money. "She is just shocked.". 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 Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 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. 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. Her close friendship with Bunny would give her the privacy, affection, and depth of understanding to help bear the weight of that armor. Then her daughter was fatally hit in a car accident, and she threw herself even deeper into her career. [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. On November 25, 1932, Lambert married Stacy Barcroft Lloyd Jr. of Ardmore, Pennsylvania, at Trinity Church, Princeton. The doyenne of high society is the widow of Paul Mellon, a billionaire art patron and racehorse breeder. 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.. 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.. 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. "I'm going along on very weak wheels." 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 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. Jackie Kennedys home on martha's vineyard, known as red gate farm, would benefit from the guidance and expert gardening of bunny mellon. Im not sadnot really . Her friend Bette Midler performed her hit song The Rose. Through it all, she remains an enthusiastic defender of the former North Carolina senator. 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He warned her that she should shun celebrity and stick to becoming a myth. Rachel Bunny Mellon was born 110 years ago on August 9th in New York, NY. 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. Astor Regrets. A reclusive banking heiress who gave $725,000 to John Edwards that was used to conceal his affair with a former campaign aide is finally speaking out about the scandal. She reportedly told friends the senator reminded her of John F. Kennedy, whose wife Jackie O. was a close friend, the Daily Beast reported. [34] Following his indictment, the judge forbade Edwards to speak with any potential witnesses. But Mellon struck up new life-affirming friendships with much younger, artistic men. 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. MANHATTAN Listerine heiress and philanthropist Rachel 'Bunny' Mellon has preferred to shun the media spotlight since long before her financial largesse became Style included a great deal more than the cut of clothing or a period of interior decoration. 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. 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. Huffman, who introduced Mellon to Edwards, said the former presidential candidate reminded her of John Kennedy. I have so much to do.". At debutante balls, fundraisers, and art openings, Ill Build a Stairway to Paradise shows how Mellon became a tastemaker. Mellon was not accused of breaking any laws. She had not given an extended interview in more than a quarter century. She was involved in the business of nature and beauty, design and implementation, Forger said. 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. If true, its also possible to look at it as just one more example of both Bunnys fierce determination to finish a thing, to make it perfect, and her determination to go the distance for her friend. 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. 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. 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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. For Bunnys 69th, Jackie gave her an illustrated edition of Emily Dickinsons poems. 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. She didnt think it trivialized Averyand if it did, that didnt matter, as it was hers. Gordon, a veteran journalist, is the author ofMrs. The Rose Garden would go on to become a place where President John F. Kennedy and presidents after him hosted significant events. Situated on over 7 acres, it is also known as one of Cape Cods original homes. Trescher mentioned how surprised hed been at first to find that Mrs. 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. ", 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. Late heiress Rachel Bunny Mellon s Antigua property is up for sale for $25 million, making it one of the most expensive pieces of land in the Caribbean. Her death was confirmed by Alexander Forger, her personal attorney for the past 40 years, and her grandson Thomas Lloyd. Jackie, on the other hand, was an outright celebrity, and she quickly gained a new kind of celebrityor notorietywhen she married Aristotle Onassis. The Mellons gave Jackie a birthday party in 1966, three years after the assassination, at their home in Oyster Harbors. 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 [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. [15][16], Although she had no formal training, Mellon read widely in horticulture and made contributions to several landmark gardens. Bunny was a society figure with an almost pathological dislike for publicity, a trait she shared with her husband. Most distressing is her loss of vision. "It's hard being 100 and blind. The home was later restored in the 1970s and modernized. 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. Thats the antithesis of what her style would be, he said. 1700 Oil on canvas. . Bunny said that Jackie was always telling me what to dolike a nanny& I didnt always listenShe would sayall your ducks are swansyou should not believe some people!, In 1995, George Trescher, New Yorks top event planner, sent a note to Bunny along with a clipping from his interview with W magazine. The last standing true American aristocrat.. She found both in Aristotle Onassis. "I have lived for 99 years and I've never been interviewed by the FBI before!". 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. Rachel Lambert Mellon (August 9, 1910 March 17, 2014), often known as Bunny Mellon, was an American horticulturalist, gardener, philanthropist, and art collector. 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. Mellon has not been accused of wrongdoing (she even paid gift taxes), but Edwards was indicted in June for violating campaign-finance laws. A donation from Mellon in 1977 helped make the home the headquarters for Project Hope, the worldwide medical outreach organization. [7][36] Her funeral was held at Trinity Episcopal Church in Upperville, which the Mellons had gifted to the community in 1960. This story has been shared 209,091 times. 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. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. 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. Susan Zakin was born in New York City, where she attended the Brearley School and Columbia Universitys Graduate School of Journalism. The two women took to one another at once. in 2005. JFK had just published Profiles in Courage, a volume of studies of senatorial political bravery that had won the 1957 Pulitzer Prize and would help him in his run for the presidency.They met in 1958 when Adele Astaire Douglass, an old friend of Bunny and Pauls and then a Virginia neighbor, brought her guest Jackie to Oak Spring for tea not long after the birth of her daughter, Caroline. 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Zenas Crocker of Robet Paul Properties held the listing. 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. Mellon also was known for her exquisite taste both in fashion and in decorating. [15], Described as a resilient centenarian, a bout with cancer[35] and ongoing macular degeneration nonetheless slowed her activity. She next began to work on the White House's East Garden, but her work was interrupted by Kennedy's assassination. During Camelot, Mellon was ever-present at the White House, quietly underwriting Jackie's extravagant entertaining. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Thanks for contacting us. In 1932, she married Stacy Barcroft Lloyd Jr., a businessman and horse breeder. She had endured worse, including the 2008 death of her daughter Eliza, who had been left quadriplegic when hit by a car years earlier. Rendered a paraplegic and unable to speak, Eliza was transported to her mother's farm for round-the-clock care, surviving for eight years. When Jackie Kennedy decided to revive the grounds surrounding the White House, she reached out to her friend and horticulturalist Rachel Bunny Mellon to carry out the redesign. She and Paul Mellon supported many philanthropic endeavors, but were also known to indulge. Paul Mellon, a renowned art collector, philanthropist and thoroughbred breeder, died in 1999 at age 91. The daughter was married to former U.S. Sen. John Warner. She says she was drawn to him by "his very deep intelligence. "I think it's awful." In Jackies case, it was her main article of faith that a womans job was to raise the children, and if she made a mess of it, the rest of what she did amounted to nothing. Bunny Mellon, ne Rachel Lowe Lambert, was not just a social figure. I know the coats history, so much larger than onewomans, and I can give it a proper send-off. What extravagance, breathed Jackie, or so the story goes. They had two children: Stacy Barcroft Lloyd III, and Eliza Winn Lloyd. [10] In a 1969 New York Times article with the Mellons, she proclaimed that "nothing should be noticed. Shes not sitting around in velvet covered gold chairs. 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. Mellon, a woman whose acquaintances and the press had led him to believe was distant and cold, was in fact warm & funny once he got to know her. 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. Mellons attorney said she had no idea the money was going to hide a mistress. Some may find the pacing too leisurely, and the book is at its best when Mellons curious personality comes out in full. It is a way to help our friend without government restrictions. The two women often celebrated their summer birthdays together. He pleaded not guilty and is preparing for trial this fall. (French, ca. She was also a great landscape and interior designer at the intersection of history and style. [8] He served in the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. He claims, "Bunny and I were the last people on earth who knew about the girlfriend and the baby. "It's been like falling down the rabbit hole with Alice in Wonderland," says Huffman, who rues introducing the heiress to the senator. The estate also holds a boathouse and a garage. Her first book, Coyotes and Town Dogs: Earth First! Bunny Mellon, in her Oak Spring Garden Library. Her wardrobe was created by Spanish designer Cristbal Balenciaga until he retired, at which time French designer Hubert de Givenchy took over fashioning everything she wore, according to a 2010 Vanity Fair article. Until recently the philanthropist, whose net worth exceeds $400 million, was primarily known as a passionate gardener and discreet woman with a discerning eye. A self-taught botanist, Mellon was tapped by her friend Jacqueline Kennedy to design the White House Rose Garden. John F. Kennedy and Bunny Mellon together on Cape Cod. 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. 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