Style icon and lifelong socialite Lee Radziwill, the younger sister of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, has died at the age of 85.
Radziwill had suffered from age-related disease in recent years, but was still in good health, maintaining her reputation of elegance up until her death, WWD reports.
Radziwill was married three times: first to publishing executive Michael Canfield, then to Polish Prince Stanislas Radziwill, with whom she had two children, and finally to film director Herb Ross.
Radziwill was known for her impeccable sense of style and famous friends. She was entered in the Best Dressed Hall of Fame in 1994, and was known to hit the town with famous names such as Truman Capote and Andy Warhol.
Lee and her older sister, Jackie were the “it girls” of the 1960s, though Lee admitted that she often felt overshadowed by the former First Lady. In her biography, she reportedly wrote that their father favored Jackie over her, writing: “That was very clear to me but I didn’t resent it because I understood he had reason to.”
She is survived by her daughter Anna, and daughter-in-law Carole Radziwill, author and television personality on the program “Real Housewives of New York.”
Her son Anthony, Carole’s husband, died of cancer in 1999.