When I heard a nude photo of Jackie had been found among artist Andy Warhol's things by an archivist, I wondered if she'd posed for him. It seemed unlikely given how upset she was when Larry Flynt printed nude photos of her on Skorpios in his magazine, "Hustler."
Well, here's the story according to one of the archivists working on Warhol's estate:
And how did Warhol come to possess a naked poster of Jackie O signed, "For Andy, with enduring affection, Jackie Montauk"?
As it happens, says Wrbican – who along with other researchers authenticated the signature through handwriting comparisons – Onassis was a frequent visitor to Warhol's Montauk, N.Y., beachfront estate.
So, after her second husband, Aristotle Socrates Onassis, got a paparazzi to take pictures of her skinny-dipping and it landed in the hands of Larry Flint, who turned it into a poster for his porn magazine, Hustler, Jackie O sent a copy – likely as a joke – to Warhol, Wrbican said.
"I really doubted it was her signature at first," he says. "But it really matches her writing."
So it's not a "new" nude after all, nor is it Warhol's work. It's one of the photos from "Hustler" and Jackie apparently had more of a sense of humor about it than some of her biographers have opined.
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