Ron Galella obituary
msn.comJacqueline Kennedy Onassis. In 1969 Galella jumped out from behind a bush to grab a snap of Jackie and her eight-year-old son, John F Kennedy Jr, on bicycles entering Central Park, New York.
Reacting to the boy’s frightened response, Secret Service agents handcuffed Galella as Jackie yelled “smash his camera”. He sued her, and when her husband Aristotle Onassis offered to settle, asked for a million dollars.
Instead of paying, the Onassises countersued. Jackie testified that Galella made her life “intolerable, almost unlivable,” and that she had “no peace, no peace of mind”.
In 1972 a judge issued a restraining order, keeping Galella 150 feet away (the distance was reduced to 25ft on appeal). He collected his photos in a bestselling book, Jacqueline (1974), but the battle continued; Galella even dated the family’s maid to gather information on Jackie’s movements.
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