New Book Reveals Jackie Kennedy’s Half-Brother Jamie Auchincloss Wasn’t Invited to Her Death Bed

For years, Jackie Kennedy hid her pain — and cut off anyone in her life who tried to expose it, including her own half-brother, Jamie Auchincloss, who had made the grave error of talking to author Kitty Kelley for her 1978 book, Jackie Oh!

On May 19, 1994, as Jackie lay dying following a five-month battle with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, she was surrounded at her apartment on Fifth Avenue in New York City by friends and family, including her children, Caroline and John Jr., sister Lee and sisters-in-law Eunice and Ethel, who said their goodbyes as Gregorian chants played in the background.

Jamie wasn’t invited. “Proving, once again that in our family, old grudges don’t die,” Jamie told Taraborrelli, “they just get shuffled down to the next generation.”