Inside Jackie Kennedy’s Alleged Kiss With Robert Redford – SheKnows

They are saying all is honest in love and warfare, and Jackie Kennedy would absolutely agree after her alleged kiss with a well-known Hollywood actor and filmmaker. The previous First Woman allegedly kissed Robert Redford, who supposedly claimed he solely did so for bragging rights however Jackie didn’t let herself be the butt of the joke.

The clandestine kiss was first revealed in Jackie: Public, Personal, Secret, a brand new biography by J. Randy Taraborrelli. The biography has revealed a bunch of recent details about Jackie’s different Hollywood fling, her cellphone name with Marilyn Monroe and the way she felt about affair rumors with Robert F. Kennedy.

In keeping with the e book, the kiss with Redford passed off in 1973 — a decade after the assassination of John F. Kennedy — whereas Jackie was nonetheless married to her second husband, Aristotle Onassis. On the time, Redford was filming an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Nice Gatsby directed by Jack Clayton with a script written by Francis Ford Coppola. In keeping with Taraborrelli, manufacturing passed off on Hammersmith Farm, the Newport, Rhode Island house the place Jackie spent her childhood. Her mom and stepfather, Janet and Hugh Auchincloss, had been nonetheless dwelling within the house.

“I keep in mind everybody as being very la-de-da wealthy,” the e book quotes Redford’s son, James, as saying. “I later heard from my father that the Auchinclosses had been having cash issues, however positive you’d by no means realize it.” James, now a documentary filmmaker, remembers his summer season spent dwelling on the grounds of the house whereas his father labored. In a single occasion, the Auchincloss household internet hosting a picnic which Jackie and her sister Lee attended alongside stars of the movie Mia Farrow, Bruce Dern, and Sam Waterston.

Nevertheless, maybe probably the most dramatic factor that occurred on set was the kiss between Jackie and the movie’s protagonist. Taraborrelli claims Jackie confirmed as much as watch the film being filmed in the future however wound up sneaking off with Redford for a couple of half hour with out anybody realizing the place they went. It could be one other ten years earlier than Jackie dished on the alternate.

“I made out with Robert Redford,” Taraborrelli says Jackie ultimately confessed. She allegedly elaborated that Redford advised her he had at all times needed to ask sure questions in regards to the Cuban Missile Disaster, which occurred throughout JFK’s presidency. Taraborrelli says Jackie claimed Redford was “completely obsessive about” Nixon and Watergate so that they ended up chatting about that. She recalled, in response to the e book, “He leaned in and kissed me. What was I to do? He’s Robert Redford for Christ’s sake, and he’s drop useless beautiful.”

Redford alleged advised her he “simply needed to have the ability to say he made out with Jackie O.” And whereas that may appear harsh and considerably derogatory, Jackie wasn’t going to let Redford be the one one who acquired story out of it. Taraborrelli writes that Jackie quipped, “So, now I get to say I made out with Robert Redford, and we’re even.”