 JUL
15 - A new book has claimed that Hollywood biggie
Marlon Brando enjoyed two nights of passionate sex
with Jacqueline Kennedy.
What’s more, in Bobby and Jackie: A Love Story C.
David Heymann has claimed that Brando wanted to bare
the intimate details to the world.
In the explosive tome, Heymann has obtained passages
from Brando’s account of how he hooked up with
Jackie in 1964.
Heymann writes, “according to Brando, [their]
three-hour meal included a good deal of drinking.
Jackie and the actor danced and drank. During their
dance, Jackie, deeply attracted to Brando, “pressed
her thighs” suggestively into his. They danced
again, then sat down and began to “make out,”
He relates: “In Brando’s words, “She kept waiting
for me to try to get her into bed. When I failed to
make a move, she took matters into her own hands and
popped the magic question. ‘Would you like to spend
the night?’ And I said, ‘I thought you’d never
ask.’”
 Heymann
also alleges - for the third time - that Jacqueline
and Bobby Kennedy had an affair, and once again,
other Kennedy biographers are slamming the author's
claim.
The book, which is available on July 14 from Simon &
Schuster's Atria Books, interviews several
on-the-record witnesses who say that the in-laws had
a sexual relationship after JFK's assassination in
1963.
One neighbor tells Heymann that Bobby and Jackie got
frisky out in the open over Christmas vacation in
Palm Beach in 1964, while family friend Chuck
Spalding says that there was such an obvious
attraction between the two, "you would have had to
be dumb, deaf and blind not to see it."
In addition, Heymann writes that Bobby (l.) and
Jackie (r.) vacationed together in Antigua and
hugged and kissed in Glen Cove, N.Y., without the
presence of Bobby's wife, Ethel. One "eyewitness"
also says that during a cruise on the Sequoia (the
presidential yacht), the pair went below deck for 10
minutes and returned looking "happy."
But Kennedy experts are pooh-poohing Heymann's
tales.
"It's a new low, and you just wonder how far people
are willing to go," says Laurence Leamer, author of
"The Kennedy Men," "The Kennedy Women" and "Sons of
Camelot." "[Heymann] is just trying to make a buck.
Yes, Bobby and Jackie had a relationship as friends,
but [the romance] is a total exaggeration. I feel
sorry for Heymann."
David Talbot, author of "Brothers: The Hidden
History of the Kennedy Years," refused to even
comment on Heymann's tome because he doesn't believe
the writer is a credible source on the Kennedy
family.
The backlash against Heymann's newest book recalls
the criticism he received in 1994, when he first
alluded to the affair in an updated edition of "A
Woman Named Jackie." He repeated the claim in 1998's
"RFK: A Candid Biography."
Following publication, several reviews pointed out
that the author relied on single sources or
third-hand witnesses to make his allegations, and
Kennedy adviser and historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
said Heymann was "beneath contempt."
Kennedy White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger,
meanwhile, branded Heymann's claims "bull-." |
