Book about Jackie Kennedy’s love life
Was sex symbol Warren Beatty a loser in bed?
In the mid-1970s, things were not just related to business: Jackie Kennedy Onassis and Warren Beatty
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A new ‘tell-tale’ book about Jackie Kennedy suggests Warren Beatty’s lovemaking might not have been that far after all.
Like the magazine “People” reported in its latest issue, the new biography of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929-1994) reveals some juicy details about the love life she led after the death of her husband John F. Kennedy (1917-1963). In the work entitled “Jackie: Public, Private, Secret”, the well-known celebrity biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli (67) also compiles some interesting news about the brief affair that Jackie Kennedy had with the mid-1970s American actor Warren Beatty (86) is said to have had.
Book project with Hollywood Casanova Warren Beatty
According to the biography, the two met through Jackie’s job as an editor for the publishing house Doubleday, which she pursued from 1976. Her task at the time was to recruit “big names” from the American cultural and political scene for biographical book projects.
One of their candidates: Hollywood star Warren Beauty, who was traded as the “sexiest man alive” at least since his role in the film “Bonnie and Clyde” (1967) and had the reputation of a notorious Casanova.
According to excerpts from the new biopic, exclusively pre-published in People magazine, Jackie was initially taken with the handsome actor. After a few business meetings about the planned book project, the collaboration allegedly developed into an affair, which is said to have been short-lived.
Movie star Jackie was too self-centered
One of the reasons, according to author Taraborrelli, was that Beatty was “absorbed by his own career and films”. “All he wanted to do was talk about directors and producers and films and she just wasn’t interested in any of that,” the passages quoted continue.
In bed just “just fine”
The author also suggests that Jackie Kennedy was less than impressed with the actor’s legendary lovemaking. When asked about his accomplishments in the bedroom by a confidant, she is said to have replied, “Oh, he’s quite fine. There’s only so much men can do anyway.” After the dalliance with the film star ended, she reportedly spoke disillusioned that “it took two weeks longer than it should have.”