Five years later Jackie met Maurice Tempelsman, with whom she remained in a relationship until her death in 1994. Jackie had been married to Onassis for six and a half year when he died in 1975. She created a new past, in effect.". Inside the home shortly before Onassis died, Simon was among the small group of people invited by the family to say goodbye, including John Jr. and Onassis' longtime companion, Maurice Tempelsman. He was previously a producer at ABC News, where he worked at Nightline and World News with Diane Sawyer, and at MSNBC. Though they reportedly contemplated marriage, the unwelcome publicity, along with the complications of blending their two families (Warnecke had four children of his own) and Warnecke's deep financial debts, ultimately led them to separate. (She made members of her staff and those who worked for hermassage therapists, hairdressers, et al swear never to reveal anything about her to anyone. Maurice lived and stayed with Jackie in her 15-room Fifth Avenue apartment in New York in the mid-'80s until she died of cancer in 1994. I always sensed there were large portions of her life that were cemented over, rooms that were locked, rooms that no one ever entered, to which she had thrown away the key.". Like Jackie, Ormsby Gore was a widower and the two shared a bond over the sudden and tragic deaths of their spouses. After her husband's assassination the regal figure in white became the tragic, dignified figure in black, who had cradled the shattered head of her husband. [29] The Italian authorities determined that they were looted from Morgantina, and smuggled into Switzerland, where they were acquired by Symes. She never remarried after Onassis died, but at the time of her death, she was partnered with Maurice Tempelsman (pictured). A drawing table where she painted was set up in the living room. Work? Jackie had joked. Simon, whose first marriage to James Taylor ended in divorce, says she was more into artistic types. Simon describes her friendship with Onassis in a new book, Touched by the Sun: My Friendship with Jackie. In a remarkably candid interview, Simon detailed their unlikely relationship and described why she believes Onassis was drawn to her. One New York collector has 100 wineglasses from the Kennedy White House to prove it.) I stopped and I called her and said, Would you mind if I wrote children's books instead?. She adored the job, and eventually spent over 19 years at various publishing houses in the city. Maurice Tempelsman Kennedy Photos and Premium High Res Pictures - Getty We laughed and giggled.". "Americans love provenance.". Despite their wide-age gap, they tied the knot in 1968, surprising the public. Her first hit single, Youre So Vain, was released 10 years earlier. . Carly Simon describes her Jackie Kennedy deathbed farewell - NBC News She called her rented cottage in Virginia horse country her "mouse house." Senator from Massachusetts, to meet a South African diamond magnate. She would watch the adding up of the touches, one at a time." [2][34] Maurice and Lilly Tempelsman were guests at the State Dinner given at Mount Vernon, Virginia in honor of the President Ayub Khan of Pakistan in 1961. However, at least one person who knew Jackie finds it hard to believe that she behaved in this histrionic way and suspects that McNamara merely remembered it this way. AmoMama creates engaging, meaningful content for women. Onassis, she said, spoke to her with a bracing honesty. In 1977 in a highly publicized move, Jackie resigned from her first bookpublishing job, as a consulting editor at Viking, supposedly because Guinzburg had surprised her by publishing Jeffrey Archer's novel Shall We Tell the President?