Just Jackie (27 page)

On
the beach in Skorpios. “Jackie is a little bird that needs its freedom as well as its security,” Onassis said, “and she gets both from I me. She can do exactly as she pleases.” (Settimio Garritano Gamma Liaison)

Caroline paints a design on John Jr.’s back. As John grew older, his impulsive behavior, which first became noticeable after the assassination, developed into a serious problem. (Courtesy of Niki Goulandris)

Shopping in the Greek Isles with Niki Goulandris. In many ways, Niki was a Greek replica of Jackie’s best American friend, Bunny Mellon. Both women embroidered life with flowers. (Courtesy of Niki Goulandris)

Jackie in Greece with Onassis’s sister Artemis. “Jackie, you are so young and beautiful,” Artemis told Jackie after the death of Onassis. “Now you need to find a man who will give you some happiness.” (Gamma Liaison)

Jackie and Onassis seated far apart in the back of his limousine. They did not understand each other’s world. She was Catholic, Anglo-Saxon. He was Eastern Orthodox, Mediterranean. (Gamma Liaison)

Jackie with her stepdaughter Christina on the way to Onassis’s funeral. “Christina was angry as hell,” said Onassis’s attorney. “She thought that Jackie was behaving badly by asking for a bigger share of the estate.” (Keystone/Sygma)

A
windblown Jackie captured in an off guard moment in New York by paparazzo Ron Galella. She sought privacy by marrying Onassis, but was as exposed and vulnerable as she had been after Kennedy’s assassination. (Ron Galella/Ron Galella Ltd.)

Paparazzo Ron Galella snaps one of the 4,000 pictures he took of Jackie. She suffered an ordeal by the media such as no other woman in this century, with the possible exception of Britain’s Princess Diana, has had to undergo. (Ron Galella Ltd.)

Jackie O with (from left) Liza Minelli, Irving “Swifty” Lazaar, and Bianca)agger. Suddenly Jackie was the new “in” personality to invite and hope to be invited by
. “More
than anyone else in New York,” wrote Liz Smith, “Jacqueline [typifies] the new society of the metropolitan Eastern Seaboard.” (Sonia Moskowitz)

With Leonard Bernstein and Oliver Smith at Studio 54. Jackie’s friendship with gay men had a profound effect on her outlook. She came to believe that no good would ever come from trying to sanitize or standardize behavior. (Corbis/Bettmann)

With journalist Pete Hamill at a 1977 movie premiere. Hamill embodied many of the bad-boy qualities that attracted Jackie to Kennedy and Onassis. But Hamill also represented a break with the past. He was both masculine and sensitive. (Ron Galella/Ron Galella Ltd.)