新傳記曝傑奎琳貴族血統系虛構 婚前電梯內失身大綱
IN THE White House she was an icon of style, the elegant embodiment of American aristocracy. Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy, who died 20 years ago this month, was presented to the world by her husband’s slick PR team as a blue-blood who traced her lineage back to 16th-century French nobility.
But a shocking new biography reveals that the girl who grew up to be queen of President John F Kennedy’s fabled Camelot was not what she appeared.
Jackie’s ancestors were peasants and her father was a bisexual alcoholic gambler who drank himself to an early grave, claims the book Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: A Life Beyond Her Wildest Dreams, by Danforth Prince and Darwin Porter.
Before reigning over the White House Jackie had spent her youth auditioning a succession of America’s wealthiest eligible bachelors in a mercenary search for a rich husband, ultimately losing her virginity in a lift caught between floors.
“Jackie’s aristocratic heritage was total fantasy in the same way that Jackie created the myth of Camelot at the White House,” says Porter. “It never existed.
“She wasn’t happy in her marriage to Jack Kennedy and before he became president she wanted a divorce. Jack’s father Joe Kennedy offered her $1million to stay knowing that a divorce would destroy Jack’s political future.”
Jackie was born in 1929 to Wall Street broker John Bouvier III, known to his friends and foes as “Black Jack” because of his dark complexion, destructive gambling addiction and his black heart.
“He was a hedonist, a rogue, a gambler, a scoundrel, a rascal, a libertine and a heartbreaker,” says Porter. “He led a dissolute life which featured promiscuous sex and reckless spending.”
He married wealthy heiress Janet Lee who claimed to be descended from the prestigious American “Lees of Maryland” but Porter reveals: “Actually she was descended from Irish immigrants who had fled the potato famine.”
Jackie grew up on the 14-acre estate of her grandfather Major Bouvier who built an English manor house to embody his family’s supposedly noble history. “They wanted it to appear that they had breeding, power and money for centuries but their genealogy was invented,” says Porter.
“The Major traced his family back to French aristocracy but they were actually cabinet makers, maids, ironmongers, tailors, shopkeepers, tavern owners, farmers and chimney sweeps. He even created a fake coat of arms.”
Jackie’s parents divorced when she was only 11 and while her mother remarried wealthy investment banker Hugh Auchincloss, her father Black Jack descended into debauchery. “That’s what Jackie grew up expecting of a man,” says Porter. “So when she married JFK’s infidelities didn’t seem unusual.”
When Black Jack first met his prospective son-in-law in 1953, despite his own invented nobility he looked down on the former Irish bootlegger turned US senator’s son calling Kennedy a “goddamn Mick”.
Black Jack’s many lovers included songwriter Cole Porter who claimed that “one night Black Jack and JFK got really drunk and arranged for a showgirl hooker to visit. Both of them seduced this girl in the same bed.”
Black Jack died of liver cancer in 1957. At his funeral Jackie’s cousin Edie Beale recalled: “She didn’t shed a tear.” Black Jack had been ostracised by Jackie when she came out as debutante of the year in 1947 at 18 and she set about finding a suitable husband, racing through America’s most eligible wealthy young men.
She charmed her way into European high society and family connections got her invited to a garden party at Buckingham Palace. Expressing her honour at meeting Winston Churchill he flirtatiously replied: “If only I were 40 years younger I might honour you in another way.”
She studied in France, romancing students, ski instructors, intellectuals and Parisian high society. During a party at Lady Astor’s stately home Cliveden in Buckinghamshire she disappeared into a bedroom with Hollywood legend Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Though Jackie claimed to have been Kennedy’s virgin bride she was deflowered years earlier by French novelist’s son John Marquand Jr in a stalled lift. “She was so hot to trot she couldn’t wait until I got inside my apartment,” revealed Marquand who deliberately stopped the lift between floors. “I figured I’d better go for it before she changed her mind.”
Her long-time friend novelist Truman Capote said: “Virginity was something Jackie wanted to get rid of as soon as possible.”
When Jackie returned to the US her mother “slapped her on both cheeks” demanding that she end the affair because Marquand’s family was “poor as church mice”, claims the book.
Jackie was introduced at a dinner party to John F Kennedy, a US senator from one of America’s richest families. “Jack was a skirt chaser and I knew that if he wanted to become president he’d have to find the perfect wife,” said JFK’s friend Charles Bartlett, who played Cupid.
But that night Jackie drove home with her boyfriend stockbroker John Husted. They then became engaged over her mother’s objections that his banking family didn’t have enough money to treat her royally.
Husted recalled passionate love-making sessions unaware that Jackie was cheating on him with Kennedy. After dinner with Husted one night Jackie gave him a tame kiss on the cheek and slipped her engagement ring into his coat pocket.
Yet it had not been love at first sight for Jackie or JFK. They met three times before he began showing a romantic interest. Taking her yachting she was unimpressed to see him in a swimsuit, recording in her diary: “He has a funny body, skinny with toothpick legs.”
Despite her concerns about Kennedy’s notorious womanising they were engaged in June 1953 and wed three months later.
On their honeymoon night in New York Jackie donned a see-through negligee but waited in bed for an hour and a half while Kennedy made phone calls. When he finally came to bed Kennedy complained of his bad back, made brief love, rolled over and fell asleep. The marriage went downhill from there.
Kennedy was infamous for his affairs with lovers including Marilyn Monroe and Marlene Dietrich and they had only been married months when Jackie walked in on JFK receiving the sort of favour from a secretary that Monica Lewinsky later reserved for President Clinton. “You must have known when you married me I can never be faithful,” Kennedy pleaded. “I can’t help myself. It’s a compulsion.”
Following two miscarriages, plunging into depression with “the world’s worst husband” Jackie was sent to Valleyhead Psychiatric Clinic in Massachusetts where she received electro-shock therapy she called “the nightmare ride of my life”.
Talked out of divorce Jackie returned to her marriage finding solace in her own infidelities with actor William Holden and Fiat car boss Gianni Agnelli.
After JFK’s assassination in 1963 her lovers included Marlon Brando, Paul Newman, Frank Sinatra and her two brothers-in-law Robert Kennedy and Peter Lawford, the book claims.
“She wasn’t happy at all married to JFK,” says Porter. “She agreed to stay married as long as Jack’s affairs stayed private but he was constantly humiliating her. Their happy marriage like Jackie’s ancestry and the modern-day Camelot was a myth.”在白宮，她是時尚的象徵，美國貴族優雅的化身。她就是美國前總統約翰•肯尼迪的妻子傑奎琳•李•布維爾•肯尼迪。今年五月，距傑奎琳離世已有20年，在肯尼迪的技法嫺熟的公關團隊宣傳中，傑奎琳留給世人的形象是出身高貴，血統可追溯至16世紀的法國貴族。
但是，這個說法遭到了挑戰。據美國媒體報道，一本關於傑奎琳的新傳記披露了一些令人震撼的故事，指出這位成長爲肯尼迪總統神話般的“卡米洛特”的王后實際上並非表面所呈現的那樣。
這本傳記的名字叫做《傑奎琳•肯尼迪•奧納西斯：做夢都想不到的人生》（Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: A Life Beyond Her Wildest Dreams），作者是丹福思•普林斯和達爾文•波特。書中稱，傑奎琳先祖都是農民，父親則是個風流成性的酒鬼賭徒，且因嗜酒而早逝。而傑奎琳本人在入主白宮前，把大好青春流連於一個個美國的富有單身漢之間，只爲找一個有錢的丈夫，最終在一輛停着的電梯裏失去貞操。
“傑奎琳的貴族血統完全是虛構的，和傑奎琳創造了白宮的卡米洛特神話一樣，壓根沒存在過。”傳記作者之一波特說。“在同傑克•肯尼迪的婚姻生活中，她並不快樂。肯尼迪成爲總統前，她曾想離婚。但肯尼迪的父親喬•肯尼迪知道離婚會毀掉肯尼迪的政治生涯，於是給了她100萬美元，讓她繼續留在肯尼迪身邊。”
傑奎琳生於1929年，他的父親是華爾街的經紀人約翰•布維爾三世，因皮膚黝黑、好賭成癮和黑心腸，他在朋友和敵人那裏得了個綽號叫“黑傑克”。
“他是一個享樂主義者，混混，賭徒，惡棍，無賴，浪蕩子和負心漢。他過着荒淫的生活，性濫交和揮霍無度構成了他生活的主體。”波特說。
他與有錢的女繼承人珍妮特•李結婚，這位女人自稱是頗有名望的美國“馬里蘭李家”的後裔，但波特揭道：“事實上，她只是從愛爾蘭大饑荒中逃荒過來的愛爾蘭移民的後裔。”
傑奎琳成長於她祖父梅傑•布維爾的14英畝莊園裏，梅傑建了一座英倫莊園來凸顯其家族的光輝歷史。“他們想向外界展示，他們已經積累了幾個世紀的權力和金錢，但他們的血統是虛構的。”波特說。
“梅傑吹噓自己的家族可追溯到法國的貴族，但這個家族的人實際上只是些傢俱木工，女傭，五金店生意人，裁縫，零售商，酒館主人，農民和掃煙囪的人。他甚至刻了一個假族徽。”
傑奎琳11歲的時候父母離異，母親與富有的投資銀行家休•奧金克洛斯再婚，父親黑傑克則墮落於酒色。“那就是傑奎琳長大後期待男人，所以當她嫁給不忠的肯尼迪似乎沒有什麼不尋常。”
當黑傑克1953年第一次見到他未來的女婿時，並不在乎自己虛假的血統，反而瞧不起前愛爾蘭走私販、美國參議員的兒子，並稱呼肯尼迪“該死的傑克”。
黑傑克的衆多情人之一歌曲作家科爾•波特曾說：“一個晚上，黑傑克和肯尼迪喝得伶仃大醉，然後安排了一個歌舞妓女。他們在同一張牀上與這名妓女發生了關係。”
黑傑克1857年死於肝癌。傑奎琳的堂兄伊迪•比爾回憶說：“她（傑奎琳）（在父親葬禮上）沒有流一滴眼淚。”實際上，黑傑克已被傑奎琳排斥，1947年18歲的她成爲初入上流社會的少女，開始着手在美國最合格最富有的年輕男子中物色合適的丈夫。
傑奎琳用自己的方式獲得了歐洲上流社會的親睞，並得以應邀參加白金漢宮（英國皇宮）的遊園會。她在見溫斯頓•丘吉爾時向他表達崇敬，丘吉爾輕佻地回答說：“要是我再年輕40歲，我可能會以另一種方式向你致意。”
在法國求學期間，傑奎琳經常往返於巴黎上流社會。在阿斯特子爵夫人的白金漢郡奢侈莊園克萊夫登舉行的派對期間，她曾與好萊塢名宿道格拉斯•費爾班克斯一起消失在一間臥房。
傑奎琳聲稱自己是肯尼迪的處女新娘，但實際上早在結婚前幾年就被法國長篇小說家的兒子約翰•馬昆德在停着的電梯裏奪去貞潔。“她如此熱情地慢跑，等不及進到我的公寓。”馬昆德故意把電梯停在某一樓層。“我想，我最好在她改變主意前放手去做。”
傑奎琳的老朋友，小說家杜魯門•卡波特說：“貞潔是傑奎琳想盡快擺脫的東西。”傳記中寫道，傑奎琳回到美國後，她的母親“扇了她兩個臉頰”，要求她停止與馬昆德的風流韻事，因爲馬昆德的家庭“像教堂的老鼠一般窮”。
再後來，傑奎琳被介紹參加晚宴派對，與來自當時美國最富有家族的肯尼迪結識。“肯尼迪是個好色之徒，而且我知道，如果他想成爲總統，就不得不找一個完美的妻子。”肯尼迪的朋友查爾斯•巴特利特說，他在兩人間扮演了丘比特的角色。
但宴會當晚，傑奎琳卻開車與男朋友股票經紀人約翰•赫斯特德一同回了家。後來更在傑奎琳母親的強烈反對下訂婚，她母親認爲赫斯特德不夠有錢。
赫斯特德回憶說，他和傑奎琳翻雲覆雨之時，並沒察覺到傑奎琳正在揹着他與肯尼迪交往。某天晚上，傑奎琳與赫斯特德用過晚餐後，傑奎琳在赫斯特德面頰上平淡一吻，並有意把訂婚戒指落在了赫斯特德的上衣口袋。
因此，傑奎琳或肯尼迪並非一見鍾情。在肯尼迪對傑奎琳有興趣前，他們已見過3次。傑奎琳甚至在日記中說：“他（肯尼迪）的身體很滑稽，腿瘦得像牙籤。”雖然她擔憂肯尼迪的放蕩成性，但還是在1953年6月與他訂婚，並在3個月後正式結婚。
在紐約度蜜月期間的一個晚上，傑奎琳披着透明內衣，但躺在牀上等了一個半小時，肯尼迪纔打完電話。當肯尼迪上牀後，又抱怨背疼，最後草草了事後就翻身進入夢鄉。兩人的婚姻自那以後開始每況愈下。
因與瑪麗蓮•夢露和瑪琳•黛德麗有私情，肯尼迪臭名遠播。而且，結婚沒過幾個月，傑奎琳就撞見肯尼迪與祕書眉來眼去。肯尼迪還自辯解說：“你和我結婚的時候就肯定知道我不可能忠誠。我管不住自己。這是強迫症。”
隨着兩次流產，傑奎琳爲“世上最糟糕的丈夫”而陷入抑鬱，一度進入馬薩諸塞州一家精神病診所接受電擊療法治療，傑奎琳稱這段時間“夢魘駕馭了我的生活。”
傑奎琳或許以自己的出軌找到了些許安慰，她與演員威廉•霍爾登和菲亞特汽車公司老闆詹尼•阿涅利都有緋聞。傳記中稱，1963年肯尼迪遇刺身亡後，傑奎琳的情人包括馬龍•白蘭度、保羅•紐曼、法蘭克•辛納屈，以及她的兩個小叔子 羅伯特•肯尼迪和彼特•勞福德。
波特說：“與肯尼迪結婚她始終沒得到幸福，她同意維持這段婚姻，只要肯尼迪保證自己的私情不公開，但他卻不斷地羞辱她。他們的幸福婚姻就像傑奎琳的血統和當代的卡米洛特一樣，只是個神話。”
