Direct quotas from Vivian Crespi, Roswell Gilpatric, Karl Katz, and Lady Bird Johnson appear in Carl Sferrazza Anthony’s As We Remember Her (HarperCollins, 1997).
The words to the song “Little Green Apples” were written by Bobby Russell; the music was written by Bobby Russell.
Details about Christina and Alexander Onassis in the section “The Perfect Match,” about the Onassis wedding in the section “Esiah’s Dance,” and about the reception and honeymoon in the section “A Special Surprise” were drawn from anonymous sources and from newspaper articles published at the time.
The account of the prenuptial negotiations and final agreement between Jackie and Ari comes from extensive interviews with Stelio Papadimitriou.
TEN: THE PEONIES OF GREECE
In order to re-create Jackie’s life on Skorpios the author relied on numerous interviews with eyewitnesses such as Costa Anastassiadis, captain of the yacht Christina; Stefanos Daroussos, chief engineer of the Christina’, Niki Goulandris, Jackie’s good friend; and Paul Leonard, Jackie’s decorator on Skorpios.
Primary published sources for life on Skorpios include Carl Sferrazza Anthony’s As We Remember Her (HarperCollins, 1997), Billy Baldwin’s Billy Baldwin Remembers (Harcourl Brace Jovanovich, 1974), Peter Evans’s Ari (Summit Books, 1986), Aristotle Onassis by Nicholas Fraser et al. (Lippincott, 1977), C. David Heymann’s A Woman Named Jackie (Lyle Stuart, 1989), and Kitty Kelley’s Jackie Oh! (Lyle Stuart, 1979).
Jackie’s thoughts about her life on Skorpios in “The Journey to Ithaca” section are contained in an unpublished letter from Jackie to Niki Goulandris dated August 25, 1970, which was kindly provided to the author by Mrs. Goulandris.
The thoughts on Jackie and Ari’s relationship attributed to Alexis Miotis, director of the Greek National Theater, appear in Heymann’s A Wofnan Named Jackie.
Jackie’s letter to Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. describing the Greek character appears in Anthony’s As We Remember Her.
C. P. Cavafy’s poem “Ithaca” is published in The Complete Poems of Cavafy (Harvest Books/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989).
The narrative about the cabal against Jackie, and Onassis’s renewed relationship with Maria Callas, is drawn from interviews with Stelio Papadimitriou as well as a number of published sources, including Frank Brady’s Onassis (Prentice-Hall, 1977), Lester David’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (Birch Lane Press, 1994), L. J. Davis’s Onassis (St. Martin’s Press, 1986), Nigel Dempster’s Heiress (Grove Weidenfeld, 1989), Evans’s An, Aristotle Onassis by Fraser et al., Willi Frischauer’s Onassis (Meredith Press, 1968), Heymann’s A Woman Named Jackie, Kelley’s Jackie Oh!, Doris Lilly’s Those Fabulous Greeks (Cowles, 1970), and Arianna Stassinopoulos’s Maria Callas (Simon & Schuster, 1981).
The narrative in the section “An Even Dozen” is derived from interviews with Hélène Arpels.
ELEVEN: THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF ATREUS
Kitty Carlisle Hart’s story about Jackie visiting a veterans’ hospital is drawn from Carl Sferrazza Anthony’s As We Remember Her (HarperCollins, 1997), and from the author’s own interview with Mrs. Hart.
The narrative of Jackie and Ari’s dinner at the Coach House restaurant is drawn from an interview with an American friend of the Onassis couple who wishes to remain anonymous.
Details of Jackie’s consultation with a heart specialist are drawn from the author’s interview with Dr. Isadore Rosenfeld. Information about using Resusi-Annie to learn CPR techniques was provided by Dr. Laurence Inra and Eugene Lucchese, emergency medical service supervisor at the New York Hospital.
Primary published sources include Anthony’s As We Remember Her, Stephen Birmingham’s Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (Grosset & Dunlap, 1978), Frank Brady’s Onassis (Prentice-Hall, 1977), Peter Duchin’s Ghost of a Chance (Random House, 1996), Peter Evans’s Ari (Summit Books, 1986), C. David Heymann’s A Woman Named Jackie (Lyle Stuart, 1989), Kitty Kelley’s Jackie Oh! (Lyle Stuart, 1979), Kiki Feroudi Moutsat-sos’s The Onassis Women (Putnam, 1998) Arianna Stassinopoulos’s Maria Callas (Simon & Schuster, 1981), and William Wright’s All the Pain That Money Can Buy (Simon & Schuster, 1991).
The narrative of Ari’s remorse and guilt over Alexander’s death in the section “Hubris” was drawn from the author’s interviews with Stelio Papadimitriou and Peter Duchin.
TWELVE: LOVE, DEATH, AND MONEY
Material for this section, which describes the turmoil in Ari and Jackie’s marriage after Alexander’s death, Ari’s illness and death, and Christina’s settlement with Jackie of the disputed will, is drawn from interviews with Stelio Papadimitriou, Eleanor Lambert, Peter Beard, Jack Anderson, Les Whitten, Bill Fugazy, Tom Bolan, Dr. Isadore Rosenfeld, Niki Goulandris, and David Banfield.
The narrative of Jackie and Ari’s visit to the Guinness home in Lantana, Florida, is drawn from an article by Aileen Mehle in Good Housekeeping, September 1994.
Primary published sources for the background on Loel and Gloria Guinness are Sally Bedell Smith’s Reflected Glory (Simon & Schuster, 1996), Annette Tapert and Diana Edkins’s The Power of Style (Crown, 1994), and Veronique Vienne’s “In a Class by Themselves: Fourteen Women of Style,” Town & Country, November 1994.
The description of the Guinness house was drawn from All Out of Step (Doubleday, 1956) by Bunny Mellon’s father, Gerard Lambert, who designed and built the house.
Information about myasthenia gravis came from an article by James F. Howard Jr., M.D., professor of neurology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, published on the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation Homepage.
Onassis’s illness and treatment were reported in The New York Times, November 12, 1974; December 20, 1974; and February 5, 6, 7, 11, 13, and 20, 1975. His death was reported in The New York Times, March 16 and 17, 1975. Steven V. Roberts’s article on Onassis’s funeral appeared in The New York Times, March 19, 1975.
The material in “A Sweeping Indictment” is drawn primarily from interviews with Jack Anderson and Les Whitten. Mr. Anderson provided the author with copies of his “Merry-Go-Round” articles on Jackie’s spending habits, a series of United Feature Syndicate columns dated April 14-April 17, 1975. Les Whitten’s
