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

was Bush self-righteous

On 5/14/12, OccupySpring <soprano.olivia07@gmail.com> wrote:
> was Clinton a sinner?
>
> On May 14, 3:40 pm, EARL DOYLE <lesjul...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> i like the guy, to tell you the truth, i rather have a sinner in the
>> White House than some self-righteous judger
>>
>> On 5/14/12, OccupySpring <soprano.olivi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> > Yeah, well I owe him one! Hes a good guy, just made some bad choices.
>>
>> > On May 14, 3:26 pm, EARL DOYLE <lesjul...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> i didn't know he was a DEM i thought for sure he was PUB
>>
>> >> sorry
>>
>> >> On 5/14/12, OccupySpring <soprano.olivi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >> > I dont want to read any more negativity about John Edwards, Thank
>> >> > you!
>>
>> >> > On May 14, 3:21 pm, EARL DOYLE <lesjul...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> >> could someone tell me why this isn't an interesting topic
>>
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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.
>>
>> >> >> > 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.
>>
>> >> >> > 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."
>>
>> >> >> > Never mind that Mrs. Mellon, an avid gardener, was talking about
>> >> >> > landscape
>> >> >> > effects. The observation was interpreted as a personal credo.
>>
>> >> >> > 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.
>>
>> >> >> > 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.
>>
>> >> >> > 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.
>>
>> >> >> > "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."
>>
>> >> >> > 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.
>>
>> >> >> > "You know I'm weak on good looks," Mrs. Mellon told Mr. Langella,
>> >> >> > who
>> >> >> > first
>> >> >> > made
>>
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