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Her put-downs were gentle. Says John Loring, design director at Tiffany and author of several books edited by Onassis: "It was always in very nice terms, but the moment she said what was wrong, there wasn't any doubt. I'd say to myself, 'Well, silly me, why did...
A few glimpses of the private Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis are available. For one, she was often seen at ballet intermissions eating ice cream, something she loved. For another, she chain-smoked -- out of the camera's range -- until 1987, when she told Kitty Dukakis, who had approached her for advice...
In the last dozen years, Carolina Herrera, who designed Caroline's wedding dress, was Onassis' favorite designer. "Once," says Herrera, "she was in my showroom, and I had some buyers from Neiman Marcus. She was trying on a suit. She came out and she saw all these people sitting there...
In the last 10 years of her life, Onassis kept company with a married financier and diamond merchant, Maurice Tempelsman, who reportedly multiplied his companion's wealth. (One source says that in 1991 her holdings included $1.5 million in cash, property -- including her $3.5 million apartment -- amounting to nearly $8...
With close relations to her children and grandchildren, a history of good health, a job she loved and a congenial companion, she had seemed set for a happy old age. She summered on Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts, where she had three traditional saltbox houses side by side set on...