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Ghighi, who was born in Russia and was twelve years older than Charlene, appealed to her, and in 1952 she became his third wife. His second, Austine ("Bootsie") Cassini, had divorced him, married William Randolph Hearst Jr., Cassini's boss. Ghighi was Hearst's top society columnist, using the pseudonym of Cholly Knickerbocker...
...knows? She met a man whose name was Igor Cassini. Everybody called him Ghighi. He loved society, in all its forms, and he made a living by chronicling its activities. He knew enough and he got around so fast that his column was very readable...
Ghighi and Charlene were close to that group. And Ghighi's brother, Oleg Cassini, is Jackie Kennedy's official dress designer. Even Ghighi admits that the Kennedys like Oleg better than they like him. But he insists he and Charlene rated high with the White House: "There is a good relationship between the President and Mrs. Kennedy and us." White House sources, on the other hand, insist that the Kennedys had socialized precious little with the Igor Cassinis since the inauguration...
Last winter, after an investigation by Bobby Kennedy's Justice Department (Ghighi is not nearly so fond of Bobby as he is of the other Kennedys), Cassini was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of failing to register as an agent of a foreign government. His trial is set for next month. After the indictment, Charlene's father, who never cared much for the columnist, seemed downright hostile to the Cassinis...
Died. Charlene Wrightsman Cassini. 35, beautiful wife of Society Columnist Igor Cassini; by her own hand (sleeping pills); in Manhattan (see THE NATION...