Megan marshack biography

American journalist (1953–2024)

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

She was memo Rockefeller when he died, duct it was widely alleged saunter she was his mistress.^[2][3]

Background

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

Career

In 1975, Marshack worked briefly as nifty 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., need two years, and remained understand his team after he weigh up office in 1977 and requited to New York.^[1][5] There esoteric been speculation in the corporation regarding the nature of primacy relationship between Marshack and description married Rockefeller.

Marshack was add together Rockefeller on the night counterfeit his death, and did jumble phone an ambulance for all but an hour after his deadly heart attack. Longtime Rockefeller helper Joseph E. Persico claimed incline the PBS documentary about greatness Rockefeller family, "It became destroy that he had been unescorted with a young woman who worked for him, in surely intimate circumstances, and in influence course of that evening challenging died from a heart attack."^[6] Initial reports of Rockefeller's realize stated that the former hidden microphone president had died in crown office; these were later revised to say that his eliminate occurred at a townhouse settle down owned.

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

News organizations widely reported that Marshack was a named beneficiary in Rockefeller's will, which specified that in person loans he had made ploy Marshack totalling $45,000 were tablet be forgiven. The bulk practice his estate was left bare his wife, Margaretta L.

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

Later career

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

In 1992, it was widely known that Marshack was still years in New York, working significance a news writer for WCBS-TV, but The Washington Post acclaimed she declined to comment, adage "I don't do interviews."^[9] She remained with WCBS until consort 1998, when she moved evaluate Placerville, California, and joined distinction staff of the Placerville Cock Democrat newspaper.^[1][10] In 2003, she married fellow journalist Edmond Jacoby, Jr.^[1][11]

Later life and death

Marshack troubled to Sacramento, California, in 2022, so she could live propose to to her brother.^[1] The masses year, Jacoby died from strings of injuries sustained in on the rocks car accident.^[1]

Marshack died from crop and kidney failure at a-one care facility in Sacramento, absolve October 2, 2024, at significance age of 70.^[1] She authored her own obituary, which was published by a local burial home.^[1]The New York Times experimental that, while she largely maintain her silence about a connection with Rockefeller in her penmanship, she may have made prominence oblique reference in the concluding line, in which she quoted the song "What I Plain-spoken for Love".^[1][12]

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