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Ron Galella Made Jackie O a Style Icon: Just Ask Him!

by Ben Widdicombe (Subscribe to Ben Widdicombe's posts)
Posted Jun 2nd 2010 at 5:15PM  
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Dimitrios Kambouris, WireImage

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
was already the most stylish woman in the world when the infamous New York paparazzi Ron Galella made a career out of snapping (some -- many -- would say "stalking") her. But that very photographer was feted at the Museum of Modern Art on Tuesday night with a premiere for the new HBO documentary about him, "Smash His Camera."

"I think I helped create the style icon of Jackie," Galella told StyleList. "She was my favorite subject because she did not pose--she was always active, and I liked taking active pictures." (Translation: she was always running away from him.)

"It didn't matter what she wore, but the best take I ever got was at [legendary Manhattan society restaurant] La Cote Basque, she wore a Valentino bright red dress, and that made the cover Life magazine," he said, adding wistfully: "but I never got her without a bra."

But surely she hated being followed?

"She was an actress!" insists Galella. "She pretended she didn't like pictures sometimes, but she loved them. And this documentary shows her smiling into my camera many times. I think she loved it."

History shows she "loved it" by taking him to court and getting a restraining order.

"She's a hypocrite! She said in court that she did not collect pictures, but the maid said she had a closet full of my pictures," said Galella, as incensed as if the slight had happened yesterday. "After the trial I gave her my book 'Jacqueline,' through her doorman, [as a way of] thanking her, and it's on her bookshelf! Before she died--I have a witness."

It was not lost on the well-heeled premiere guests that the party was being thrown by veteran film publicist and society fixer Peggy Siegal, who has spent the past 30 years keeping the photographer out of her events. But among the usual toffs were a few other retired paparazzi, who had known Galella back in the day and were gamely shooting their cameras, clearly enjoying being back in the fray.

"Wow, there are a lot of people here," I overheard one senior snapper say to an old chum, whom she clearly hadn't seen in many years. "Did anybody come?"

Meanwhile see who else was also showing off some unexpected curves last night at MoMA.
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drooster47, 6-05-2010, 2:31PM

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drooster47

Scumbag.

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Cathy, 6-05-2010, 2:35PM

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Cathy

This photographer thinks an awful lot of himself, doesn't he! Get over yourself!

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suzie, 6-05-2010, 2:49PM

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suzie

This leech has made his career being a leech and stalking people who have accomplished incredible things with their lives. He stalked Jackie O and her children...after suffering terrible losses and intruded in their privacy. He can justify it all he wants...she'd sued him because he was harmful to her and her family. He is a bad, bad man ..and wants to put his own spin on this and make more money off of her. I find him offensive and I find his comments about HER being a hypocrite reidiculous. That's like a an abuser saying,, they wanted it.
Shame on him ...just because he has survived his victims doesn.t give me the right to change the story.

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GetReal, 6-05-2010, 3:06PM

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GetReal

I know very little about Jackie, but I know she was a private person who protected her children like a lioness. He's calling this person a "hypocrite" who "loved" being stalked? I don't buy it for one New York minute. And as glamorous as she was, she was not a model or actress - she was the wife of a US president and deserved a lot more respect.

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JEFF ELEPHANTMAN WEINTRAUB, 6-05-2010, 4:34PM

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JEFF ELEPHANTMAN WEINTRAUB

jackie, like mobsters, had a no show job too!

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james russell, 6-05-2010, 4:37PM

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james russell

it is too bad the galella is getting a showing at all. he is like vermin that scurry in the dark alleys of new york. just because he could does not mean that he should. if he were a lawyer working the way he did he would be called an ambulance chaser.

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Brian Workman, 6-05-2010, 6:24PM

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Brian Workman

ALL PAPARAZZI SHOULD BE IN JAIL!

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me817, 6-05-2010, 5:03PM

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me817

He's the phoney. When she worked as an editor for a publishing company at 400 Park Avenue in Manhattan this slug would STALK her office and the only time she smiled for his camera was inadvertedly when he hid behind someone she knew as she greeted them. The photo's she retained were for court purposes, not to see how good the camera treated her. His ego matches his gaul.

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me817, 6-05-2010, 5:05PM

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me817

In addition to his obnixous comments, he did not "make" her a fashion icon. She was fashionable long before she ever got near the White House or this stalking slug.

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Frank, 6-05-2010, 5:07PM

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Frank

Take a long look at "Jackie O" sometime.....she was QUITE unattractive and was even when she was young.

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CeCe, 6-05-2010, 5:35PM

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Frank, I have and she was! Clothes don't always make the man/woman. I couldn't stand her voice either,

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honeyspcg, 6-05-2010, 5:31PM

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The reason these leeches can get paid for the jobs they do is because people buy their products. If people weren't so interested in the celebrities' lives, then these type of people would go broke. It's the same as the drug smuggling that goes on at the border. If Americans didn't buy their product, it would be useless for them to risk their lives crashing the border. Get it?

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Sue, 6-05-2010, 6:06PM

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David you are so right. Everyone is acting like they knew her personally but putting him down for doing the same thing. No one really knows if she did or did not like it.

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Mike, 6-05-2010, 6:20PM

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Some people wouldn't know art if it bit them in the ass..Not all of Ron's pictures are art, but it you keep the lens clicking you are going to have some winners...and he has taken some great ones..if these tabloid editors want to only print the worst..blame them...future generations are going to be very happy and well served to see some of the better Pap photos. Unflattering pictures are always very obvious..they don't fool anyone

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Bella, 6-05-2010, 7:15PM

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Bella

Ha, Frank, did you think Barbara Bush was hotter?

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Marie, 6-05-2010, 7:18PM

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Marie

Jackie was phony she was a bigger philanderer than her husband and she let him take the blame for being a womanizer she was no better she was a phony.

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wbischo, 6-05-2010, 7:38PM

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Jackie O had pictures he took and his book, because she wanted to make certain she had them as evidence when she had to take him to court again. I doubt that she was at all happy that he was taking her pictures, ever!

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bashel, 6-05-2010, 7:58PM

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What a shame that someone (i.e. Ben Widdicombe) who writes for a living is so poorly educated that he uses the word paparazzi as singular.

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