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Edith Bouvier Beale
(1917-2002)
Who Was Edith Bouvier Beale?
A cousin of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Edith Bouvier Beale — known as "Little Edie" — was a socialite and model.
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Beale's mother suffered a series of family and financial problems so the impoverished mother and daughter withdrew to their estate which fell into extreme disrepair. A 1975 documentary entitled Grey Gardens made the pair into cult figures and fashion icons.
Early Life
Edith Bouvier Beale was born on November 7, 1917, in New York, New York, as the eldest of Phelan and Edith Ewing Beale's three children.
A first cousin to Jacqueline (Bouvier) Kennedy Onassis, "Little Edie," as she was known, knew only affluence. The Bouviers earned their fortunes on Wall Street and in law, paving the way for a lifestyle that allowed Little Edie and her two brothers to have a childhood that bounced between Manhattan and the Hamptons.
In the early 1920s, Edie's father moved the family into