Lee Radziwill

Actress

Female

Born Mar 3, 1933

Age 80

Hometown Southampton (town...

Caroline Lee Bouvier Canfield Radziwill Ross best known as Lee Radziwill, is an American socialite, public relations executive, and former actress and interior decorator. She is the younger sister of the late First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Her… Read More

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Night of Stars- NYC

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Oct 27, 2011

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Lee Radziwill attends Fashion Group International's 28th annual Night of Stars at Cipriani Wall S...

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Oct 26, 2011

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Olivia Palermo looking marvellous in a mustard frock at the Giambatista Valli fashion show in Paris

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Jul 4, 2011

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Lee Radziwill attends screening of 'Somewhere' at the Tribeca Grand hotel

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Dec 13, 2010

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Romance

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Herbert Ross
Married 1988 - 1999
Peter Beard

Dated 1974
Prince Stanislaw Albert Radziwill

Married 1959 - 1973
Michael temple Canfield

Married 1953 - 1958
Aristotle Onassis
Dated
John F. Kennedy
Fling
Stanisław Albrecht Radziwiłł
Married

Family

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Lee Radziwill

Age 80

parents

John Vernou Bouvier III
Father, d.1957
Janet Lee Bouvier
Mother, d.1989

children

Anna Christina Radziwill
Daughter, Age 52
Anthony Stanislas Radziwill
Son, d.1999

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Carl Sferrazza Anthony: Photos: Christmas At The White House
Huffington Post - Dec 24, 2012

No matter how much we may imagine them now as marbleized icons of history, even presidents and first ladies enjoy searching out the ideal gifts to give loved ones at the holiday season, and sometime delight with an equal degree to receive them. After staging a Christmas pageant during their 1962 holiday in Palm Beach, Jackie Kennedy speaks with her son John Kennedy, Jr. as daughter Caroline Kennedy looks on. (Kennedy Presidential Library, National Archives) In 1789, during his v...
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Jonas Mekas: The Man Who Inspired Andy Warhol To Make Films
Guardian (UK) - Dec 01, 2012

Jonas Mekas, 'the godfather of avant-garde cinema', talks to Sean O'Hagan about working with Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali and Jackie Kennedy Jonas Mekas, who will be 90 on Christmas Eve, has an intense memory of sitting on his father's bed, aged six, singing a strange little song about daily life in the village in which he grew up in Lithuania. "It was late in the evening and suddenly I was recounting everything I had seen on the farm that day. It was a very simple, very realistic recitatio...
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Liz Smith: Journalism As Fiction, Fiction As Journalism: The Capote Dictum
Huffington Post - Nov 29, 2012

"THE THING is there are people who are writing phony romans a clef about people they never knew or met. Like Jackie Susann. If you are writing about people you actually know, then it's different. But to take Mrs. Onassis or Lee Radziwill or me, like Susann has done, is not playing the game fair. If you know the people and have some basis to make a judgment, it becomes a work of journalism or reportage!" I JUST found again this statement made b...
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Mary Duncan: Stars Party In Paris For Obama
Popeater - Oct 05, 2012

Paris Fashion Week provided the excuse to party and party we did. On October 1, Anna Wintour, the editor of Vogue, hosted a fundraising event for Obama. The Obama Victory Fund was good at keeping secrets. When 150 donors paid from $2,500 to $10,000 each to attend a cocktail and dinner party, we were told that Anna Wintour was hosting and Scarlett Johansson would be there. Plus, the organizers promised, a few surprise stars who had been attending the Paris Fashion Week would drop...
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1933 Birth Born March 3, 1933, in Southampton, New York, Caroline Lee Bouvier, called Lee after her maternal grandfather James T. Lee, was the daughter of John Vernou Bouvier III and his wife, the former Janet Norton Lee. … Read More

TWENTIES

Kiki Preston#Illegitimate child allegations

1953 20 Years Old Radziwill has been married three times. Her first marriage, in April 1953, was to Michael Temple Canfield, a publishing executive who had been adopted as an infant by the American publisher Cass Canfield. … Read More

1959 26 Years Old 1 More Event

Her second marriage, on March 19, 1959, was to the Polish prince Stanisław Albrecht Radziwiłł, who divorced his second wife, the former Grace Maria Kolin, and received a Roman Catholic annulment of his first marriage to marry the former Mrs. Canfield. (His second marriage had never been acknowledged by the Roman Catholic Church, so no annulment was necessary.) Five months after the wedding, the couple had a son, Anthony Radziwill, and a year after that, a daughter, Anna Christina Radziwill. They divorced on March 3, 1974.

1962 29 Years Old She also visited India and Pakistan along with her elder sister Jacqueline Kennedy, (then First Lady of the United States) in March 1962. … Read More

THIRTIES

1972 39 Years Old She was seen in celebrity company, such as on the 1972 American tour of The Rolling Stones, during which she accompanied Truman Capote. … Read More

FORTIES

1974 41 Years Old Five years after her 1974 divorce, Radziwill became engaged to California hotel magnate Newton Cope, but the wedding was called off five minutes before the ceremony was to begin. (Newton Cope, a San Francisco social figure and bon vivant, who was chairman of the board of a privately-held firm that owned the Huntington Hotel and several other properties on Nob Hill, died November 23, 2005, after a long illness. He was 83 and suffered from bone cancer.) On September 23, 1988, Radziwill became the second wife of American film director and choreographer Herbert Ross. They divorced in 2001, shortly before his death. … Read More

LATE ADULTHOOD

1999 66 Years Old Anthony Radziwill died of cancer at the age of 40 on August 10, 1999, just one month after the death of his cousin John F. Kennedy, Jr. and John's wife, Carolyn; and sister-in-law, Lauren Bessette, in a plane crash near Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.

2008 75 Years Old Radziwill received the Légion d'honneur from the French government in 2008. … Read More

2009 76 Years Old Lee Radziwill's Paris and Manhattan apartments were featured in the April 2009 issue of Elle Décor magazine. … Read More

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