Word: ghighi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...Tensions. But life with Ghighi was no champagne cocktail. His charm for women was always electric-and friends recall that Charlene, who seemed to love him deeply, was jealous of his attractions. Ghighi also had legal problems. A public relations firm that he was associated with took on the Dominican Republic as a client in 1959, when it was ruled by Dictator Rafael Trujillo...
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...
Early this month one of her favorite people, Vermont Ski Instructor Peter Estin, 35, was found dead in a New York hotel room of what was officially described as "visceral congestion." His funeral was in Boston last week. Charlene did not go, but Ghighi flew up in the private plane of George Skakel, brother-in-law of Bobby Kennedy. He returned in the evening, stopped at his Fifth Avenue apartment to dress for a dinner party. Charlene complained of a toothache, so Ghighi went by himself. Charlene and her stepdaughter Marina, 14-Ghighi's daughter by his second wife...
...watched the show to the end, saw Gregory Peck, looking just like Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, make a touching little acceptance speech. When Marina looked at her stepmother, she realized that something was wrong. But it was too late. Charlene had swallowed all 30 sleeping pills. Ghighi arrived home from his dinner in time to accompany the unconscious Charlene to a New York hospital. Next morning she died without having regained consciousness. Cause: "visceral congestion...