When the archivists sorting through pop artist Andy Warhol's possessions this month found an autographed nude photo of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis [2], we heard a collective gasp. Maybe from the same people shocked and appalled by the length of Michelle Obama's shorts? I really wasn't surprised, at least not about the existence of the photo. The second season of Mad Men [3] featured an ad campaign asking women whether they were a Jackie or Marilyn. Despite her oh-so-chic wardrobe and prim and proper manners, I knew deep down Jackie had a Marilyn yes, as in Monroe side to her personality—because most glamorous women do. Also, as a biography addict who's long read about both Jackie and her husband's most famous mistress, I immediately recognized the similarities to nude photos Marilyn took on the set of her last film, Something's Got To Give [5].

The Liberation of Jackie O



Nude photos of Jackie O that caused a global media storm in | Daily Mail Online
The pictures, which shocked the world when they were published, showed the glamorous former Mrs Kennedy sunbathing nude and practising yoga, on the private island paradise of Skorpios, which belonged to her new husband, the Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis. Mrs Onassis, who was one of the world's most photographed women at the time, was able to escape the glare of publicity on the secluded island. But Garritano, who still runs a photo agency in Rome revealed how in the summer of he managed to gain access to Skorpios by befriending a local and then disguising himself as a gardener. After hearing a rumour that Mrs Onassis sunbathed nude on one of the beaches, he took a boat out and moored it near some undergrowth where he was able to remain hidden.


Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
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Nowhere was she better able to kick over the traces than on Onassis's private island of Skorpios. Settimio Garritano, an Italian paparazzo, captured her new-found freedom -yoga at the beach, shopping trips, even nude sunbathing. Now these extraordinary images, many unpublished in the UK before now, are to be suctioned. Douglas Thompson reveals o missing chapter in the Jackie O story. In the summer of , on the private Greek island of Skorpios, Settimio Garritano took a set of photographs that changed perceptions of the most debated woman in the world.