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Lee Radziwill

American socialite (1933–2019)

In this Slavic name, the surname is Radziwiłł, sometimes transliterated as Radziwill.

Caroline Lee Radziwiłł (/raˈd͡ʑiviw/; née Bouvier; March 3, 1933 – February 15, 2019), also previously known as Lee Canfield and Lee Ross, was an American socialite, public relations executive, and interior designer. She was the younger sister of former First LadyJacqueline Kennedy and sister-in-law of President John F. Kennedy.^[1]

Early life and ancestry

Caroline Lee Bouvier was born at Doctors Hospital in Yorkville, Manhattan, New York City, to stockbroker John Vernou Bouvier III and his wife, socialite Janet Norton Lee.^[2]^[3]^[a] She attended the Chapin School, in New York City, Potomac School in Washington, D.C., Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut, and pursued undergraduate studies at Sarah Lawrence College.^[5] In her birth announcement, and from her earliest years, she was known by her middle name "Lee" rather than "Caroline".

Career and fame

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Beard moved in with Lee at her Manhattan apartment, and Lee rented a house belonging to Andy Warhol and film director Paul Morrissey, on a sprawling compound of five houses in Montauk designed by Stanford White. It was Peter who introduced Lee to the Warhol circle. Jackie was as enamored of Peter as Lee was. She had already had the dashing photographer tutor her children in art history. Thus the sisters continued to haunt each other’s love life, “like two trees whose branches kept getting tangled up, their shadows indistinguishable,” observed avant-garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas.

Lee and Jackie, photographed by Peter Beard in Montauk, New York, 1972.

Cleaning House

Lee threw herself into the liberated 70s with abandon. She appeared on the cover of Warhol’s Interview magazine and hosted Mick Jagger in Montauk. Accompanied by Peter Beard, she joined the Rolling Stones on their 1972 North American concert tour. Capote covered the tour for Rolling Stone magazine, with Beard supplying the photographs.

Lee doesn’t dwell on regret, but if she has o

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Timeless Style: Lee Radziwill Remembered

I wrote a post about Lee Radziwill, American socialite and sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis just after she passed away on February 15th 2019. As a leading swan of the celebrated American novelist and screenwriter Truman Capote, Mrs Radziwill is played by Calista Flockhart in the new drama series Feud: Capote vs. The Swans on FX;Hulu. For those who missed it the first time around I thought it was worth a revisit of that earlier post.

Lee Radziwill, born Caroline Lee Bouvier passed away on Friday and I read the New York Times Obituary. Not being familiar with the more intimate details of her life I found it quite a fascinating read. This morning I read In Memoriam: Lee Radziwill on the Habitually Chic blog that gives a nuanced, life affirming portrayal accompanied by virtually a catalog of images.

Lee’s greatest claim to fame was of course as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’s younger sister. Growing up close to, but in the shadow of her much celebrated sister, she also endured a difficult and strained relationship