Edie. Bouvier. Bill was born into the Bouvier family, and her brother Black Jack was Jacqueline Kennedy's biological father, that is, Edie was Jacqueline's aunt.
Young Edie is a beautiful lady who can sing and dance, loves to party, and is popular in social situations.
Born well, good looking, talented, but in that era, the greatest value orientation of the best celebrity was basically to find a rich family to marry and live a rich wife's life from then on.
As a result, Edie married bill, a wealthy securities merchant, and gave birth to two sons and a daughter.
Edie's daughter inherited her mother's beauty and looked cute and charming, and her parents also named her Edie (hereinafter referred to as Little Edie).
When Edie Jr. was 7 years old, the family moved into a mansion in East Hampton, New York.
This mansion has a garden in front of it and a garden in the back, luxuriously decorated and full of slaves, where Edie parties and socializes.
Like most rich wives, she is comfortable and comfortable, without worrying about her livelihood, just dressed up and enjoying everything her husband has to offer.
And the price that the rich wives have to pay is to silently endure the affair of their husbands outside.
Edie's husband, of course, also has a mistress, the woman is his female secretary, and Edie turns a blind eye, all she has to do is maintain her position as a hostess.
However, her wishful thinking was still wrong after all.
The husband had a crush on his mistress and filed for divorce.
Idie was hysterical and adamantly refused to divorce on the grounds of religious belief (the Catholic Church does not allow divorce).
Unfortunately, the husband had already made up his mind, and he ran to Mexico, unilaterally announced the divorce by a telegram (mexican law, if one party declares divorce, the marriage is automatically suspended), formed another family, and stopped the financial support for Edie.
As a rich woman, Edie has always wanted the wind and the rain, she refuses to face the fact of being abandoned, relying on the financial support provided by her mother's family, she still lives a luxurious life in the mansion.
Without the shackles of marriage, Edie's life is more elegant, she invited a pianist to her home to practice songs with her, and the two also began a romance.
But soon, she once again paid the price for her naïve willfulness.
At her son's wedding, the singing-loving Edie dresses up as an opera goddess, annoying her conservative father.
Her father was furious and stripped her of her inheritance rights, giving her only a fraction of the money.
Slowly, Edie's life becomes increasingly embarrassing, and her lover leaves her, but she is addicted to the illusion and refuses to move away from her mansion.
Lonely and lonely, Edie thinks of her daughter Edie in New York.
Little Edie
Like her mother, little Edie was born with a good hand, she was beautiful, elegant, well-educated, and worked as an amateur model at an aristocratic boarding school in New York.
Naturally, there is no shortage of suitors, and Eddie Jr. has rejected the pursuit of Paul Getty, the former richest man in the United States, and is said to have met with Joseph Kennedy Jr. (President Kennedy's brother, who later died in a plane crash).
Little Eddie, who was born to win, either developed her career well, or found a rich child who was in love and married, this life will not be too bad, but she has a love brain and falls in love with a husband with a wife.
The naïve little Edie thought she had met love, who knew that the other party coldly told her: "There is only sex between us".
Little Edie was hit in the head, suffered from anxiety disorder, and lost his hair all day long, until later a hair completely fell out.
It was at this point that Big Edie began to induce Little Edie to come home with her.
Frustrated by his feelings, little Edie gave up the next day's film audition opportunity and returned home to accompany his lonely mother.
Edie who just got home
The mother and daughter guarded the empty mansion, and since they had no financial resources, the servants left one by one, but the mother and daughter who had come to reach for food and open their mouths had never cleaned.
Gradually, the house is full of garbage, and finally even the electricity bill cannot be paid, chaos, darkness, putrefaction, wild cats and raccoons flock to the house, and the kind mother and daughter will feed these small animals...
In this way, they accompanied each other, never abandoned, spent countless long days and nights, and decayed with the mansion.
Fast forward more than two decades, and the smell of "mansions" has become more and more serious, which has seriously affected nearby residents, and neighbors can't bear it and complain to the government.
So the health department came to the door and ordered them to clean the house within a month, otherwise they would be forcibly evicted.
The matter was boiling over, and the media hyped up with the theme of "Jacqueline's relatives do not pay attention to hygiene", which made Jacqueline unable to come to Taiwan, and had no choice but to invest more than $30,000 to repair and tidy up the houses of these two "poor relatives".
At this time, the famous documentarians, the Mesos brothers, were filming Jacqueline's biography, and they learned about the "strange" mother and daughter and visited this special "mansion".
They found that the story of the fallen lady was the one that really should be recorded.
Thus began a documentary called "The Grey Garden," which documented Eddie's real life in 1973.
They are poor and uninhabited, as if forgotten by the world, but they still live in their own world, getting up every day to dress up, singing and dancing, sunbathing...
In front of the camera, Big Edie is still reluctant to admit the fact that she has been divorced, she said that her marriage is very happy, and she has never quarreled with her husband in her life.
Little Edie accused her mother, saying that she had deprived her of her only chance to marry, deprived herself of her dreams and a bright future, but at the same time she loved her mother deeply, saying, "I will never leave her."
It's pathetic and pathetic.
In 1975, the documentary "Gray Garden" was released, and it was a sensation in the United States.
The following year, Big Edie passed away.
Before leaving, little Edie asked her mother, "Is there anything else you want to say?" ”
Big Eddie replied, "All of it, it's in the movie." ”
Big Edie did not leave the grey garden until her death, as if as long as she lived here, she would still be the wife of a rich man, or a noble lady of high society...
After the death of her mother, little Edie finally gained freedom, she began to be invited to participate in the performance, and sold the "Gray Garden" for $120,000, and the family who took over promised little Eddie that he would not demolish the building.
After that, Eddie Jr. began to "wander" around until 2002, when she was found dead in an apartment in Florida.
Later, "Grey Garden" was adapted into a movie.
Later, "Grey Garden" was renovated and became a famous tourist attraction.