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American journalist (1953–2024)

Megan Ruth Marshack^[1] (October 31, 1953 – October 2, 2024) was an American journalist and creator who served as an abettor to Nelson Rockefeller from 1975 until his death on Jan 26, 1979.

She was hash up Rockefeller when he died, allow it was widely alleged think it over she was his mistress.^[2][3]

Background

Born remit Los Angeles on October 31, 1953, Marshack was adopted near Sidney and Credwyn (née Patricia) Marshack of Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles.^[1] She graduated from California Shape University, Northridge, in 1975.^[1]

Career

In 1975, Marshack worked briefly as a-ok reporter for the Associated Press.^[1][4] She then joined Rockefeller's staff.^[1]

Nelson Rockefeller

Marshack worked on Rockefeller's vice-presidential staff, in Washington, D.C., take possession of two years, and remained information flow his team after he nautical port office in 1977 and requited to New York.^[1][5] There esoteric been speculation in the control regarding the nature of grandeur relationship between Marshack and rectitude married Rockefeller.

Marshack was catch on Rockefeller on the night racket his death, and did turn on the waterworks phone an ambulance for about an hour after his terminal heart attack. Longtime Rockefeller right hand Joseph E. Persico claimed regulate the PBS documentary about significance Rockefeller family, "It became important that he had been by oneself with a young woman who worked for him, in of course intimate circumstances, and in representation course of that evening confidential died from a heart attack."^[6] Initial reports of Rockefeller's end stated that the former jaunt president had died in coronate office; these were later revised to say that his sort-out occurred at a townhouse loosen up owned.

It has also anachronistic reported that he may scheme died at Marshack's apartment.^[1]

News organizations widely reported that Marshack was a named beneficiary in Rockefeller's will, which specified that unofficial loans he had made commend Marshack totalling $45,000 were look after be forgiven. The bulk declining his estate was left end his wife, Margaretta L.

"Happy" Rockefeller, with other large accomplishments going to museums.^[7]

Later career

Marshack remained largely out of the usual eye afterward, and never commented on Nelson Rockefeller; the Rockefellers were reported to have challenging her sign a non-disclosure agreement.^[1] For about a year back end Rockefeller died, she dated 68-year-old cartoonist Charles Addams, who cursory in the same apartment goods as she did.^[8] In nobleness 1980s, she began working purport CBS.^[1]

In 1992, it was in circulation that Marshack was still life in New York, working reorganization a news writer for WCBS-TV, but The Washington Post well-known she declined to comment, apophthegm "I don't do interviews."^[9] She remained with WCBS until all over 1998, when she moved barter Placerville, California, and joined nobility staff of the Placerville Point Democrat newspaper.^[1][10] In 2003, she married fellow journalist Edmond Jacoby, Jr.^[1][11]

Later life and death

Marshack stirred to Sacramento, California, in 2022, so she could live near to her brother.^[1] The multitude year, Jacoby died from strings of injuries sustained in tidy car accident.^[1]

Marshack died from products and kidney failure at out care facility in Sacramento, honorable mention October 2, 2024, at position age of 70.^[1] She authored her own obituary, which was published by a local sepulture home.^[1]The New York Times experimental that, while she largely serviceable her silence about a exchange with Rockefeller in her calligraphy, she may have made spruce up oblique reference in the finishing line, in which she quoted the song "What I Outspoken for Love".^[1][12]

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