Jackie O. Seduced and Slept with Marlon Brando?

C. David Heymann, author of the soon-to-be-released Bobby and Jackie: A Love Story, alleges in the book that Jackie Kennedy slept with Marlon Brando twice about a year after her husband John F. Kennedy’s 1963 assassination.

Forty-six-year-old Hollywood gossip: you gotta love it.

Heymann’s book focuses on a post-assassination affair he claims took place between Jackie and JFK’s brother, Bobby Kennedy. He has already tried to prove this affair in two earlier books, and has consistently received a barrage of criticism for his “total exaggeration.”

However, the new Brando story has attracted less heat, mostly because it reportedly comes straight from Brando himself. The Oscar-winning actor and alleged sex addict wanted to discuss the short affair in his 1994 memoir, but a publicist friend of Jackie’s had it removed. Now Heymann reportedly has gotten hold of the excerpts:

Heymann writes that the first time, "according to Brando, [their] three-hour meal included a good deal of drinking.” Then “during their dance, Jackie, deeply attracted to Brando, 'pressed her thighs' suggestively into his … then [they] sat down and began to 'make out.'  

“In Brando's words, 'From all I'd read and heard about her, Jacqueline Kennedy seemed coquettish and sensual but not particularly sexual. If anything, I pictured her as more voyeur than player. But that wasn't the case. She kept waiting for me to try to get her into bed. When I failed to make a move, she took matters into her own hands and popped the magic question. 'Would you like to spend the night?' And I said, 'I thought you'd never ask.' "

Swoon! It all sounds so glamorous.

A week later, Jackie again hooked up with Brando at an apartment he borrowed from a friend. Commenting on Jackie's "boyish hips" and "muscular frame," Brando said, "I'm not sure she knew what she was doing sexually, but she did it well."

It’s way too strange to think of Jackie O. in that way. And we don’t blame her for going for Marlon- what a fine specimen of a man he was in his heyday.