We've received your submission. The DNAinfo archives brought to you by WNYC.Read the press release here. I have so much to do.". Rachel Bunny Mellon was born 110 years ago on August 9th in New York, NY. Lloyd reiterates that John Edwards remains in his grandmother's good graces. Nobody really notices what I do, she said. 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. that & her sense of humor.. 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 Young described how the campaign used the so-called Bunny Money to hide Hunter. Mellon's lawyer Alex Forger elaborates further on his client's attitude: "She was not enamored of his wife and didn't want his wife to know that he was getting money. In her patrician voice she adds, "I'll have to put my trust in you and God. [25] Proceeds from the sales benefited the Gerard B. Lambert Foundation, a charitable entity established by Mellon in memory of her father. With Jackie in the White House, Bunny was again happily engaged with the glamour of politics, something shed once enjoyed while sitting on Calvin Coolidges lap as a child. These resources reveal how many of her designs were derived from fairy tales. The two women took to one another at once. 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. . 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. 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. . "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. 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 doyenne of high society is the widow of Paul Mellon, a billionaire art patron and racehorse breeder. In it she wrote: Bunnyon your birthday. Rendered a paraplegic and unable to speak, Eliza was transported to her mother's farm for round-the-clock care, surviving for eight years. "I have lived for 99 years and I've never been interviewed by the FBI before!". Bunny Mellon, in her Oak Spring Garden Library. Starr. Courtesy Oak Spring Garden Library. "I think it's awful." [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 Feminist Uses of Narrative Fiction: Jill Filipovics The H-Spot and the Search for Womens Happiness. The Mellons gave Jackie a birthday party in 1966, three years after the assassination, at their home in Oyster Harbors. The estate also holds a boathouse and a garage. She was involved in the business of nature and beauty, design and implementation, Forger said. But there was more to the story: her gardens were an escape. Then she adds, "I'm very busy. 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. She reportedly told friends the senator reminded her of John F. Kennedy, whose wife Jackie O. was a close friend, the Daily Beast reported. 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. Until recently the philanthropist, whose net worth exceeds $400 million, was primarily known as a passionate gardener and discreet woman with a discerning eye. "He and I were great friends. We talked for hourson nothing and never gossipped [sic]. According to Crocker, Lloyd was thrilled the buyers were interested in preserving the home as it is. As society bandleader Peter Duchin says, "Bunny is a person with wonderful taste. For a woman who spurns publicity, this has been a rough year. 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This could have made for a grim existence. A family thats been in the area for a couple of generations purchased the property. Her friend Bette Midler performed her hit song The Rose. As an adult, her fluency with pencil and ink led her to illustrate her letters, underlining the emotions they expressed. Rendered a She believed deeply in what he was saying.. [18] Mellon created more open space for public ceremonies and introduced American species of plants, as well as Magnolia soulangeana. For most of her 103 years, Rachel Bunny Lambert Mellon kept secret the intimate details of her life. 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. July 25, 2011, 10:10 AM. Susan Zakin was born in New York City, where she attended the Brearley School and Columbia Universitys Graduate School of Journalism. "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. 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. I want to live again. in 2005. . Some may find the pacing too leisurely, and the book is at its best when Mellons curious personality comes out in full. Mellon, now blind, lives in luxurious seclusion on her 2,000-acre Virginia farm, cosseted by a staff of 120 loyal retainers. [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. Paul Mellon, a renowned art collector, philanthropist and thoroughbred breeder, died in 1999 at age 91. Additionally, she added a guest house (referred to as the childrens barn), herb garden, vegetable garden and main formal garden. That funny, sharp-eyedand boldobservation was what won over the wary Bunny, and before long she agreed to help Jackie with her Georgetown house, with the White House Rose Garden, and with the restoration of the presidential mansion itself. In a 2010 interview, she spoke of having purchased a total of thirteen works by Rothko. . 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. 2023 Cohen Media Publications LLC. MANHATTAN Listerine heiress and philanthropist Rachel 'Bunny' Mellon has preferred to shun the media spotlight since long before her financial largesse became 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. 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. 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. 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. This story has been shared 209,091 times. [7] Her parents divorced in 1933, and both subsequently remarried. 1533before 1588) A Young Daughter of the Picts, ca. Settling in Virginia, they had a circle that included Paul Mellon, the wealthy son of Herbert Hoover's Treasury secretary. 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. 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. Although she grew up in a world where horses were thoroughbreds, society was glittering, and marriage was eventually to Paul Mellon, as fellow decorator Bunny Williams put it, she was no Brooke Astor, entertaining twenty-four for dinner three nights a week, but, rather, a sculptor, sculpting space She created an American vision of English country house style.. 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. Copyright 2022 by Mac Griswold. Be kind. A previous auction of Mellon possessions brought in $218.1 million in 2014 for the Gerard B. Lambert Foundation. A Cape Cod estate formerlyowned by socialite Rachel Bunny Lambert Mellon has been sold for $19 million. [17][10], Mellon designed landscapes for many of the Mellons' properties, including the French-inspired gardens of their estate, Oak Spring Farms. 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. You are a poet like Emily Dickinson in your gardens, in your houses, in the way you see nature and all of life. She created another White House garden that was named in honor of Kennedy after her death. In 1932, she married Stacy Barcroft Lloyd Jr., a businessman and horse breeder. Yet Bunny Mellon cheerfully carries on. 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. 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. She wanted visitors to her own gardens and the gardens she designed for others to feel transported to another world. Mac Griswold's new book I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise offers rare insight into one of history's most compelling pairings. She was a poor Bouvier, by the standards of the society in which she moved. 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.. 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. [10][24] The painting measured 10 by 15 feet. She had a son, Stacy Barcroft Lloyd III, and two step-children, Timothy Mellon and Catherine Warner. "I may not be here a year from now," she tells me. ", Her solace was her gardens, and she took enormous pleasure in designing gardens for herself and friends. You cant let it get to you, because you shouldnt take it personally.), Bunny, 19 years older than Jackie, could take on the role of teacher and exemplar at one moment and then shift to become the cozy, sympathetic friend to whom Jackie poured out her heart. Her art collection included a Rothko reportedly worth $125 million. You dont even have to talk. [8] He served in the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. One of the works, No. The voice on the phone was frail but clear, with a hint of Southern gentility. Even though her closets contained racks of magnificent Givenchy and Balenciaga couture, she wanted to be buried wearing the simple college graduation gown that she had worn to receive an honorary degree from the Rhode Island School of Design. 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. He was wise, he was clear, he was a very good person. They divorced in 1948. 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. John F. Kennedy and Bunny Mellon together on Cape Cod. "[32] The funds were secretly used to support Rielle Hunter, a campaign videographer with whom Edwards had an extra-marital affair and child. Most distressing is her loss of vision. The last standing true American aristocrat.. Mellon died of natural causes at her 4,000-acre estate in Upperville, Va., her lawyer told The New York Times. They could move, manipulate, and cutwith finality. Small wonder that Bunny and Jackie Kennedy, introduced in 1957, would become confidantes. She also said that she ran interference with the Kennedys regarding Onassis before Jackies 1968 marriage to him. As it was being built, the two women considered its furnishings. She was not looking for an ambassadorial appointment, Huffman said. ", 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. Even now she is making improvements. The home was later restored in the 1970s and modernized. Griswold has mined Bunny Mellons personal archives for journal entries, poems, and photographs. 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. Raphael, Sandra, Heins, Greg, Tomasi, Lucia Tongiorgi, and Willis, Tony. Jackie and Bunny sometimes looked for happiness together on real estate adventures, finding the escape they dreamed of. Mellon's second husband, Paul Mellon, died in 1999, aged 91. Between all buildings are eight separate fireplaces. 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. Jackie Kennedys home on martha's vineyard, known as red gate farm, would benefit from the guidance and expert gardening of bunny mellon. [27], Mellon's second husband, Paul Mellon, died in 1999, aged 91. She specifically designed it for our family dynamic, Lloyd, who grew up spending time at the home told House Beautiful. When Jackie left her straw hat on Nantucket after one of their lunches, Bunny sent the plane straight back from Cape Cod to fetch it. 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. All Rights Reserved. The Fall of Feminism: Jessa Crispins Why I Am Not A Feminist. 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 estate on the private islandof Oyster Harbors overlooksNantucket Sound and Marthas Vineyard. 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." However, her best and dearest families were made up of friends who shared her passions and tastes. ", 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. Mellon eventually gave Edwards more than $6 million, Young said. According to the indictment, Edwards and his aide Andrew Young asked her for personal cash for the senator. Bunny made her debut in October 1929 and three years later married the socially connected Stacy Lloyd Jr. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Thanks for contacting us. Rachel Lambert Mellon (August 9, 1910 March 17, 2014), often known as Bunny Mellon, was an American horticulturalist, gardener, philanthropist, and art collector. [4][14], On March 17, 2014, Mellon died at her Upperville, Virginia, home of natural causes. 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. Her close friendship with Bunny would give her the privacy, affection, and depth of understanding to help bear the weight of that armor. [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 want to come back. Another note from Jackie that Bunny inserted into one of her little blue daily datebooks went the other way, with Jackie comforting her friend about some problem and telling her, Dont worry, we will just beat the world back again., When in 1989 Jackie looked back at their years as friends, she wrote, Ever since Ive known you (33 years ago this spring) you have meant as much to me as any person in my life. 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