Don’t tell Oprah!
A steamy book titled “The Secret Memoirs of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis” is scheduled to hit bookshelves on Feb. 7 and among other things reveals:
* Explicit scenes of slam-bam sex between Jackie and JFK.
* Conniving patriarch Joe Kennedy bribing Jackie to stay with Jack.
* An aggressive sexual encounter between Jackie and brother-in-law Robert F. Kennedy after the president’s assassination in 1963 – a precursor to their later affair.
* Jackie intercepting an indiscreet phone call from a giddy Marilyn Monroe shortly before the movie star’s suicide.
* Jackie’s escapades with a wife-beating Aristotle Onassis.
Fact or fiction?
While the book’s cover carries the line “a novel by Ruth Francisco,” an “editor’s foreword” signed “Julie Gannon, April 2005” tells the reader that Gannon worked with the late first lady at Doubleday and, one day in 1994 over lunch at the Met, Jackie handed over her journal. It says Jackie told her, “Do with it what you will.” Jackie died that year.
The book’s publicist explained: “There is no Julie Gannon. It was all made up.”
According to the note, Gannon stored away the salacious diaries until a decade after Onassis’ death. Then, “after all the books written about her, a play, a musical, an exhibition of her clothes, I felt that it was time for Jackie to speak for herself,” the foreword declares.
Early in the book, published by St. Martin’s Press, Jackie reveals that shortly after her marriage to JFK, she was diagnosed with chlamydia, a sexually transmitted disease – and bitterly blames the president for giving her the STD that may have been behind her first miscarriage and caused subsequent problems.
“All I hear are the words over and over again in my head – Jack killed my babies,” Jackie says after hearing the news, according to the book.
She also writes she was bribed with $1 million to stay with her philandering husband – by his father. “You’ve got to stand by him – the perfect little politician’s wife,” Joe tells her.
She accepts, demanding “$1 million now, put in trust for my first child. If I don’t get pregnant by the second term, the money is mine. For every additional child, I want a million-dollar trust.”
In a bizarre phone call from Marilyn Monroe, the troubled actress supposedly tells Jackie: “You know what he says. He isn’t done with a woman until he’s had her three different ways.”
The book presents the work as fiction, albeit “what Jackie could very possibly have written herself” – although certain readers might not read the fine print.
The publication comes amid a furor over James Frey’s “A Million Little Pieces.” The Web site The Smoking Gun revealed many parts of his memoir, which sold more than 3.5 million copies thanks in part to Oprah Winfrey’s book-club endorsement, was fabricated.
Additional reporting by Cathy Burke
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