Re: Heiress Mellon gives over $700,000 to John Edward to keep mistress quiet.

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On May 14, 3:25 pm, EARL DOYLE <lesjul...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On May 14, 3:21 pm, EARL DOYLE <lesjul...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> >  Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times
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> >> > Rachel (Bunny) Lambert Mellon, the widow of the banking heir and
> >> > philanthropist Paul Mellon.
> >> >  By GUY
> >> > TREBAY<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/t/guy_treb...>
> >> > Published:
> >> > May 11, 2012
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> >> > SHE almost squeaked through unscathed. A product of a generation of
> >> > patrician Americans who lived by the dictum that a woman's name ought to
> >> > appear in print only at birth, marriage and death, Rachel (Bunny)
> >> > Lambert
> >> > Mellon, the widow of the banking heir and philanthropist Paul
> >> > Mellon<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/paul_mel...>,
> >> > made it almost to her centenary little known outside her rarefied
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> >> > *RUBBING ELBOWS* Mrs. Mellon with Jacqueline Kennedy in 1961.
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> >> > To those familiar with a woman who is invariably, although not quite
> >> > accurately, described as reclusive, few things could be more surprising
> >> > than the fact that she should suddenly, at 101, find herself thrust into
> >> > an
> >> > unwelcome limelight, sharing tabloid space with John Travolta and his
> >> > reported massage-table antics.
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> >> > Unwittingly drawn in 2010 into a $59 million Ponzi
> >> > scheme<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/f/frauds...>orchestrated
> >> > by Kenneth I. Starr, a New York investment adviser, (who also
> >> > bilked Mike Nichols, Uma Thurman and Jacob Arabo, better known as Jacob
> >> > the
> >> > Jeweler), Mrs. Mellon is now a central figure in the trial of John
> >> > Edwards<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/e/john_edw...>,
> >> > who is accused of illegally using $725,000 she gave him to hide his
> >> > mistress at the height of the 2008 presidential campaign.
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> >> > Of all the things money can buy, Mrs. Mellon's late husband once
> >> > remarked,
> >> > privacy "is the most valuable asset." The decorum Mrs. Mellon prized and
> >> > preserved came to be emblematized by a phrase from a 1969 interview she
> >> > gave to The New York Times: "Nothing should be noticed."
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> >> > Never mind that Mrs. Mellon, an avid gardener, was talking about
> >> > landscape
> >> > effects. The observation was interpreted as a personal credo.
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> >> > In reality, Mrs. Mellon has long been an object of fascinated notice.
> >> > Born
> >> > into a moneyed Social Register background (her father was president of
> >> > the
> >> > Gillette Safety Razor Company; her grandfather, a chemist who invented
> >> > Listerine), she, with her second marriage to Paul Mellon, married into
> >> > wealth even greater than her own.
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> >> > Listerine was marketed as a cure for social embarrassment, and that, as
> >> > it
> >> > turned out, was something Mrs. Mellon avoided throughout her long life.
> >> > Because she was less socially invisible than impeccable in her
> >> > refinement,
> >> > the trial testimony about her friendship with an ambitious political
> >> > comer
> >> > struck a weirdly dissonant note. Among the subtle surprises that trial
> >> > testimony revealed was that, though keen to cultivate Mrs. Mellon's
> >> > patronage and affection, Mr. Edwards had missed some of the basic
> >> > lessons
> >> > of the social climber: never bothering, for instance, to learn her
> >> > children's names. Mrs. Mellon, it should be noted, is accused of nothing
> >> > in
> >> > the case. She even paid gift tax on the money she gave Mr. Edwards.
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> >> > For decades, the Mellons were not merely noticeable but cynosures in the
> >> > upper levels of American society, important political patrons and, as
> >> > philanthropists, vastly generous. They enjoyed a range of acquaintances
> >> > wider and more catholic than is typical for those in their milieu (among
> >> > Mrs. Mellon's friends — J. Carter Brown, the aristocratic head of the
> >> > National Gallery; Robert Isabell, the party planner; Bette Midler, and
> >> > Whoopi Goldberg) and employed hundreds of workers at the residences the
> >> > couple maintained in New York, Paris (recently sold), Antigua (on the
> >> > market for $14.5 million), Cape Cod (for sale for $28.7 million),
> >> > Nantucket
> >> > and on a 4,000-acre farm in Fauquier County in Virginia, where Mrs.
> >> > Mellon
> >> > built a library to house her collection of over 10,000 rare botanical
> >> > volumes.
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> >> > "People have this idea of her as a recluse, but she's had a full life,"
> >> > said James Reginato, a special correspondent at Vanity Fair, who was
> >> > invited by Mrs. Mellon to write about her Virginia gardens in 2010. "She
> >> > hasn't been out and about as much as you might expect a socialite to be,
> >> > but she's done exactly what she wanted. She never wanted to bother with
> >> > a
> >> > lot of boring people, and when you have your own airport, it helps."
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> >> > Mr. Reginato was referring to the airstrip at Oak Springs Farm, where
> >> > the
> >> > Mellons came and went by private jet and where she occasionally received
> >> > Mr. Edwards, a man who, as the actor Frank Langella wrote in a recently
> >> > published memoir, "Dropped Names," was "so attractive" in his white
> >> > shirt
> >> > with rolled-up sleeves and white trousers, that he somehow slipped past
> >> > her
> >> > reserve.
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> >> > "You know I'm weak on good looks," Mrs. Mellon told Mr. Langella, who
> >> > first
> >> > made her acquaintance on Cape Cod in the 1960s and who has remained a
> >> > friend. Like many Mellon intimates, Mr. Langella protects her privacy
> >> > with
> >> > fanatical fervor. Reached in a trailer on a film set, he declined to add
> >> > to
> >> > the account in his book, whose chapters on her family Mrs. Mellon vetted
> >> > and personally approved.
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> >> > 1 of the New York edition with the headline: The Last Empress.
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