Pennylynn wrote:
...Although she was stylish, the woman was also a gold digger.....
Jackie was a heavy smoker and a nail-biter which was why she always wore gloves, sometimes to her elbows.
I read that not too long before JFK ran for president, Papa Joe Kennedy talked Jackie out of her planned divorce of JFK because of his impending run for the White House. He tantalized her with the thought of being First Lady which appealed to her self-image.
During the months prior to the death of Mariyln Monroe, rumors flew about an affair between Robert, not Jack, and her. RFK was in LA at the time and her death was unreported for hours. Speculation is that the delay was so that he could get out of town. Rumors have also flown that she was trying to make a desperate, final telephone call to Peter Lawford, Kennedy brother-in-law, at the time of her death.
In his account of things, Buddy Greco wrote that Marilyn had been going around spouting off that she was going to marry Bobby because he was going to divorce Ethel. This would not do since Bobby had just won Good Housekeeping's Father of the Year Award. Fill in the dots. The Kennedys & their associates were above nothing.
After JFK's assassination, Jackie resumed her dalliance with Aristotle Onassis. JFK had found out about it & went ballistic. She'd had a sugar daddy but wanted an even bigger one and Ari Onassis was one of the very biggest in the world and he wanted a trophy.
But there was a problem. He'd been married in a Greek Orthodox ceremony and was divorced without an annulment. The Roman Catholic Church recognizes Greek Orthodox and many other non-Catholic marriages and in its eyes, he was still married. If she married him, she'd be in an adulterous affair and ex-communicated.
So, Richard Cardinal Cushing, Kennedy family confessor and sycophant, had a private consultation with her and the pronouced that she would continue to be eligible for the sacraments. Speculation was that she committed to not consummating the marriage with him. This, although she would be legally married to him, she would not be in an adulterous. She'd have her ultimate sugar daddy and he'd have his trophy wife.