Known as one of the world’s sexiest men alive, Warren Beatty, didn’t seem to leave a lasting impression on Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
In the new biography Jackie: Public, Private, Secret, author J. Randy Taraborrelli details how the former first lady had a brief fling with the actor in the mid-1970s.
According to the book, Onassis and Beatty had a dalliance when Jackie worked as a book editor, for which she was trying to woo big names, including Beatty, to write memoirs.
Taraborrelli writes that Jackie found Beatty interesting and went out on a few dates with the actor before bringing him back to her Fifth Avenue home and having him spend the night.
A member of Jackie’s staff said, “One morning I arrived to find Mr. Beatty sitting at the kitchen table talking to Jackie’s son, John F. Kennedy Jr., as if it was the most normal thing in the world.”
Jackie and Beatty continued to see each other for a few months, but she claimed she found him rather self-absorbed.
Jackie was asked by a close confidante how the actor, who was known to be a Casanova, was in the bedroom. Jackie simply replied, “Oh, he’s fine. Men can only do so much, anyway.”
Taraborrelli said, “The romance was short lived. When it was over, Jackie said it lasted two weeks longer than it should have.”
Jackie shared two children, Caroline Kennedy and John F. Kennedy Jr., with her first husband, President John F. Kennedy, whom she married in 1953.
President Kennedy was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963.
In Oct. 1968, Jackie tied the knot for a second time with Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis. Onassis died in March 1975 of respiratory failure.
