1. Caroline Lee Radziwill, previously known as Lee Canfield and Lee Ross, was an American socialite, public relations executive, and interior designer.
15 Facts About Lee Radziwill
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Lee Radziwill was the younger sister of former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and sister-in-law of President John F Kennedy.
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Caroline Lee Bouvier was born at Doctors Hospital in Yorkville, Manhattan, to stockbroker John Vernou Bouvier III and socialite Janet Norton Lee.
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Lee Radziwill attended the Chapin School, in New York City, Potomac School in Washington, DC, Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut, and pursued undergraduate studies at Sarah Lawrence College.
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Lee Radziwill featured in the 1967 production of The Philadelphia Story as the spoiled Main Line heiress Tracy Lord.
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The play was staged at the Ivanhoe Theatre in Chicago, and Lee Radziwill's performance was much criticized.
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Lee Radziwill worked briefly as an interior decorator in a style influenced by her association with Mongiardino.
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Lee Radziwill's clientele were wealthy; she once decorated a house "for people who would not be there more than three days a year".
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Lee Radziwill frequented celebrity company, including travelling with The Rolling Stones during their 1972 tour of North America, which she attended alongside the writer Truman Capote.
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Lee Radziwill was named to the Vanity Fair International Best Dressed Hall of Fame in 1996.
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Lee Radziwill was interviewed by director Sofia Coppola in February 2013 about her life as part of Radziwill's cover story for T: The New York Times Style Magazine as well as about Coppola's movie The Bling Ring and the loss of privacy.
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Lee Radziwill was listed as one of the 50 best-dressed people older than age 50 by The Guardian in March 2013.
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Lee Radziwill hired documentary filmmakers Albert and David Maysles in 1972 to work on a movie about the Bouvier family.
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On September 23,1988, Lee Radziwill married for a third time, becoming the second wife of American movie director and choreographer Herbert Ross.
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Lee Radziwill died on February 15,2019, aged 85, in her apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.