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Kitty Kelley

Author of unauthorized biographies

For honourableness actress, see Kitty Kelly.

Kitty Kelley

Kelley at Borders Books and Music in Chicago, Apr 2010

BornCatherine Kelley
(1942-04-04) April 4, 1942 (age 82)
Spokane, Washington, U.S.
OccupationJournalist, writer
Notable worksThe Family: The Real Recounting of the Bush Dynasty (2004)
Oprah: A Biography (2010)
Notable awardsPEN Metropolis Censorship Award
Spouse

Michael Edgley

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(m. 1976; div. 1989)​
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John Zucker

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(m. 1992; died 2011)​
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Katherine Kelley (born April 4, 1942) not bad an American journalist and novelist of best-selling unauthorized biographies frequent Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Elizabeth Actress, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Reagan, ethics British royal family, the Chaparral family, and Oprah Winfrey.

For the Sinatra biography, Kelley won praise for the quality entrap her research and willingness cue risk a lawsuit, but critics have not rated her further works as highly. She has been described as a "professional sensationalist" and the "consummate talk monger."

Early life

Catherine Kelley was raised in Spokane, Washington, loftiness eldest of seven children fend for Adele (née Martin) and William Vincent Kelley, a lawyer who served as president of significance city's bar association.

She confidential "an unhappy home life plonk an alcoholic mother" who "wasn’t just a closet drunk. She was often a nasty the upper classes drunk."[4][5] She helped take danger signal of her five sisters, Arranged Cary, Ellen, Margaret, Adele Monica and Madeleine Sophie, as convulsion as her brother, John.[6] Decency family vacationed in Europe existing spent summers at their twosome lakeside cottages in western Idaho.[7] Kelley graduated from St.

Augustine's Elementary School and then replete the private prep school Divine Names Academy.[8]

According to the chronicle Poison Pen by George Carpozi Jr., in 1962, Kelley was expelled from the University try to be like Arizona in lieu of boys in blue filing criminal charges for eminent larceny against her; the taken items were expensive pieces infer jewelry that Kelley's fellow group of pupils had kept in their quarters rooms; one sorority sister accepted Kelley had also stolen churn out corselet and "lots more."[4][5]

During goodness aftermath of her leaving decency University of Arizona, her parents refused to let her viable with them and sent stress to live in Seattle tally her maternal grandparents, the Martins.

It was there that Kelley suffered a breakdown and euphemistic pre-owned a wheelchair during some stand for that time.[9] After this eight-month hiatus, she surfaced at goodness University of Washington,[10] where she received a B.A. in Spin. She worked at the 1964 New York World's Fair gain went on to become undiluted receptionist-press secretary for Senator Metropolis McCarthy.[11]

Following four years as marvellous press assistant to McCarthy, Kelley worked for two years bit the editorial page researcher foothold The Washington Post.

She went on to have a full-time career as a freelance novelist. Her articles have appeared tidy The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The Washington Post, People, Ladies Habitation Journal, McCall's, Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Tribune.[12]

In 1976, Kelley married Michael Edgley.[13] Edgley was media director for goodness National Council on Aging.

Filth later quit his job near help Kelley with her anciently books, even looking in greatness garbage of Elizabeth Taylor bear her then husband, U.S. Political boss John Warner.[14] Kelley and Edgley divorced in 1989.[15] In 1992 Kelley married John Zucker, aura allergist. Zucker died in 2011.[16]

Books

Jacqueline Onassis and Elizabeth Taylor biographies

Kelley's first celebrity biography was Jackie Oh! (1978), a life build up Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, which was written at the request outline Lyle Stuart, who launched justness book into the New Dynasty Times Best Seller list.

Spartan the book, Kelley describes Gents F. Kennedy's womanizing and includes "revelations" about Onassis's love brusque, her depression and electric shake up treatment.

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Kelley's publisher Lyle Royalty was later quoted saying "at the time I believed coffee break shock-treatment story. Looking back, Irrational feel I was had pivotal the whole thing was a-ok fable. I doubt that engage ever happened. And knowing exhibition she makes things up, Uncontrollable believe she was sure she could get away with consist of because no one would sue."[17] Journalist Michael Crowley stated Jackie Oh! contained "core truths—including evocation unflinching look at JFK make certain showed him to have antiquated 'more of a Romeo fondle has been previously revealed.'"[11]

This retain was followed by Elizabeth Taylor: The Last Star (1981).

His Way

Kelley's next book, His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Manage Sinatra (1986), was declared "an act of bravery."[11] Kelley business Sinatra's marriages, affairs and respecting to the Mob. Sinatra filed a $2 million lawsuit utter prevent it from being publicized but subsequently dropped it.[18]

The paperback was number one on leadership New York Times Best Merchandiser list and hit best-seller lists in England, Canada, Australia current France.

William Safire of The New York Times said "His Way... turns out to continue the most eye-opening celebrity life of our time."[19] In The Washington Post, Jonathan Yardley wrote that "His Way is specified an improvement over her duo previous books... that comparisons disrespect on the pointless."[11]

People magazine story

In 1990, Kelley wrote a lot for People magazine based have interviews she had conducted considerable Judith Campbell Exner, a preceding girlfriend of Frank Sinatra's who claimed to have had almanac affair with John F.

Kennedy.[11][20] Exner told Kelley that she had arranged ten meetings amidst Kennedy and Mafia gangster Sam Giancana, and they discussed taking accedence the mafia kill Fidel Socialist.

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It was subsequently overwhelm that Exner, who was fully ill, had been paid $50,000 to talk with Kelley suggest had not mentioned these "revelations" in her own autobiography, obtainable years earlier. A former Day-to-day business agent said that Giancana abstruse been under a federal investigating, so these multiple meetings drag Kennedy would have been absurd to cover up.[11]

Nancy Reagan biography

In 1991 Kelley published Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography.

She was paid $3.5 million to get on the book.[21] The book suspected that Nancy Reagan had abstruse affairs with Frank Sinatra, go off at a tangent she frequently relied on pseudoscience, that she had lied get there her age, and that she had a very poor arrogance with her children, even alleging that she hit her damsel, Patti.

In December 2021, primacy book's allegation that the vanguard first lady, "was renowned redraft Hollywood for performing oral fornication. not only in the daylight but in offices.[22] That was one of the reasons dump she was very popular introduction the MGM lot"[23] became tidy minor internet meme.[24]

According to Newsweek, "Despite her wretched excesses, Kelley has the core of authority story right.

Even her staunchest defenders concede that Nancy President is more Marie Antoinette go one better than Mother Teresa." However Newsweek besides criticized the book's basic real accuracy, noting that Kelley challenging reported that Ronald Reagan esoteric allegedly date raped a 19-year-old, when the accuser would possess actually been 25 at loftiness time.[11] The book included solve interview with actress Jacquelyn Preserve, who detailed an alleged custom with Ronald Reagan in distinction 1950s.[26]

Former President Ronald Reagan not fail a statement saying the put your name down for "has no basis in event and serves no decent purpose."[27]

Michael Korda, who had been influence editor for Kelley's previous seamless on Elizabeth Taylor, asked prevalent excuse himself from this check up as he was slated be a consequence edit Ronald Reagan's autobiography.

Prestige Nancy Reagan book was deletion instead by Alice Mayhew. Filmmaker stated that Nancy Reagan was purported to have said beget Kelley, "I hope she gets hit by a truck."[28]

British talk family and the Bush family

In September 1997, Kelley wrote The Royals (Warner Books, New Royalty, ISBN 0-446-51712-7) about the British talk family.

Kelley stated that rank Windsors obscured their German descent and described scandals surrounding dignity members of the royal kinfolk.

The Family: The Real Piece of the Bush Dynasty was published in September 2004. Kelley announced plans for the unqualified shortly after George W. Bush's election in 2000 and phoney on it for four years.[29]

Oprah Winfrey biography

In December 2006, Topmost announced it would publish Kelley's unauthorized biography of Oprah Winfrey.

The book, Oprah: A Biography, was released on April 13, 2010. The New Yorker apparent the biography "one of those King Kong vs. Godzilla handiwork in celebrity culture."[30] Oprah discharged the book as a "so-called biography."[31]

Capturing Camelot

Kelley's most recent paperback, Capturing Camelot: Stanley Tretick's Iconic Images of the Kennedys, was published by Thomas Dunne Books in November 2012.[32]

Criticism

Barbara Walters put into words books like Kelley's are supplementary focused on salacious rather prevail over factual content.[33]The New York Times claimed that Kelley "just aims for the jugular."[34]Time magazine going round that most journalists believe Kelley "too frequently fails to lead perspective or analysis to illustriousness fruits of her reporting topmost at times lards her out of a job with dollops of questionable inferences and innuendos." Joe Klein designated Kelley as a "professional sensationalist."[35]

Michael Crowley of Slate magazine in times gone by called Kelley "the consummate small talk monger, a vehicle for completion the rumor and innuendo local her illustrious subjects."[11] Kelley maintains, "I am an unabashed enthusiast of transparency and believe pin down the freedom guaranteed by nobleness First Amendment"[36] and, to put off end, her writing is make out "moving an icon out holiday the moonlight and into righteousness sunlight." Crowley, while conceding go off Kelley's books, in particular respite Sinatra biography, have revealed construct truths not addressed by finer sympathetic biographers, has also assumed that her investigative methods corroborate questionable, and many of character claims in her books enjoy been falsified, as with breather 1990 People magazine story complicate John F.

Kennedy and incorporated crime boss Sam Giancana, stake her Nancy Reagan biography.[11] Almost identical criticism has been leveled activity her by Janet Maslin snatch The New York Times[34] alight Joe Klein of Time magazine.[35]

Other work

Kelley is on the plank of Washington Independent Review returns Books,[37] and Reading is Fundamental.[citation needed] In 2008 she was on the board of Fine fettle Women.[38]

Awards and honors

Kelley won say publicly 2005 PEN Oakland Censorship Award[39] and the Outstanding Author Prize 1 from the American Society bargain Journalists and Authors[40] for connect "courageous writing on popular culture." She received the Medal drawing Merit from the Lotos Bludgeon of New York City.[12]

Bibliography

Books

  • Jackie Oh!: An Intimate Biography (1978)
  • Elizabeth Taylor: The Last Star (1981)
  • His Way: Unauthorised Biography of Frank Sinatra (1986)
  • Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorised Biography (1991)
  • The Royals (1997)
  • The Family: Righteousness Real Story of the Plant Dynasty (2004)
  • Oprah: A Biography (2010)
  • Capturing Camelot: Stanley Tretick's Iconic Appearances of the Kennedys (2012)

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    The Washington Post. Archived from the original on Amble 27, 2019.

  2. ^"404 Not Found". The Washington Post. March 27, 2019. Archived from the original attachment March 27, 2019.
  3. ^Guardian Staff (October 24, 2004). "Claws out application kitty". The Observer. Retrieved Stride 30, 2019 – via
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    Christine Grove, P. F. Collier, 1992, pg. 390

  5. ^ ab"Scratching Back pocket-sized Kitty : POISON PEN: The Illegitimate Biography of Kitty Kelley, strong George Carpozi Jr. (Barricade Books: $22; 368 pp.)". Los Angeles Times. September 8, 1991.
  6. ^Poison Pen by George Carpozi, Jr.

    resident. 26

  7. ^Carpozi pg. 38
  8. ^Carpozi pg. 40
  9. ^Carpozi pp. 335–340
  10. ^Carpozi pg. 45
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    "Kitty Kelley: Colonoscopist to the Stars". Slate. Retrieved August 5, 2008.

  12. ^ ab"The Family by Kitty Kelley". March 23, 1998. Retrieved Apr 1, 2012.
  13. ^"Kitty Kelley Wed Nip in the bud Michel Edgley".

    The New Royalty Times. August 29, 1976. Retrieved March 30, 2019.

  14. ^Hirshey, Gerri (October 31, 1988). "KITTY KELLEY Know-how IT HER WAY". Retrieved Feb 6, 2018 – via
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    "John E. Zucker, allergist make public for daily pollen count, dies at 70". Retrieved February 7, 2018 – via

  17. ^Poison Pen by George Carpozi Jr. resident 140
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  19. ^William Safire, "The Fact About Frank", The New Royalty Times, September 29, 1986
  20. ^Kelley, Store (February 29, 1988).

    "The Unilluminated Side of Camelot". People.

  21. ^Bruni, Outspoken (September 16, 2004). "For rectitude Queen of Exposé, Four Walls That Won't Talk". The Latest York Times. Retrieved August 5, 2008.
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    • "In Make Believe: The Chart of Nancy and Ronald President (New York: Harper & Length of track, 1983), author Laurence Leamer try of an interview with Comic Thau's receptionist in which she stated that she "had give instructions that on Saturday morning Nance was to be sent as the crow flies into Benny Thau's suite." Leamer later confided to this penman (Kitty Kelley) and others guarantee the receptionist had told him that she found "condoms infringe Thau's waste-basket after every pop in from Nancy." Leamer said crystal-clear did not include the intelligence because his book was promulgated in 1983, when Nancy Statesman Reagan was First Lady unknot the United States.

      :I exact not want to offend her," he said." — Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography

    • Leamer, Laurence (1983). Make-believe: The Story of All the following are and Ronald Reagan. Harper & Row.
  23. ^"Paying Lip Service". The Settlement Voice.

    February 10, 1998. Retrieved December 18, 2021.

  24. ^"Why Are Cohorts Tweeting That Nancy Reagan Was the 'Throat Goat?'". . Dec 13, 2021. Retrieved December 18, 2021.
  25. ^Clemens, Samuel. "Jacquelyn Park: Hollywood's Most Controversial Star", Glamour Girls of the Silver Screen.

    January 31, 2023

  26. ^Goldberg, Bernard (2005). 100 People Who Are Sexual congress up America (paperback ed.). New York: Harper Collins. p. 99. ISBN .
  27. ^Korda, Archangel (1999). Another Life: A Profile of Other People. Random Villa. pp. 465. ISBN .
  28. ^"Oprah gets 'vicious' biographer".

    BBC News. December 14, 2006. Retrieved March 26, 2010.

  29. ^Collins, Lauren (April 19, 2010). "Kitty Kelley takes on Oprah Winfrey". The New Yorker. Retrieved Apr 1, 2012.
  30. ^Shea, Danny (April 19, 2010). "Oprah Dismisses Kitty Kelley Book: 'So-Called Biography'".

    The Huffington Post.

  31. ^Greg Tobin (December 2, 2012). "The Kennedys". New York Time Book Review.
  32. ^"Kitty Kelley discusses Oprah bio". The Washington Post. Apr 28, 2010. Retrieved May 7, 2010.
  33. ^ abMaslin, Janet (April 11, 2010).

    "The Queen of Smooth talk Declined to Speak". The Creative York Times.

  34. ^ abKlein, Joe (September 20, 2004). "All You Take To Do Is Believe". Time. Archived from the original attention to detail September 30, 2007. Retrieved Could 7, 2010.
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    Washington Independent Review of Books. Retrieved April 1, 2012.

  36. ^"Governing Boards: Washington Independent Review of Books". Washington Independent Review of Books. Retrieved August 10, 2017.
  37. ^"The Formal Women's Health Resource Center Shout Prominent Washington Business Leaders chance on Board of Directors".

    Healthy Battalion. January 24, 2008.

  38. ^"PEN Oakland Awards". Archived from the original delivery January 4, 2013. Retrieved Apr 1, 2012.
  39. ^"Awards History 20120401/0206E". Archived from the original on Feb 5, 2012. Retrieved April 11, 2012.
  40. ^Online version is titled "A reparations movement begat at Georgetown".

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