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Truman Capote betrayed the'swans': he surrounded himself with glamorous socialites
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August 22, 2022
As Famd's second series of Feud investigates Truman Capote's betrayal of the high-society women he surrounded himself with, FEMAIL examines his'swans,' including Jackie Kennedy's sister Lee Radziwill (right), actress and fashion muse C.Z Guest (centre) and Vogue editor Babe Paley (left). After the swans recognized themselves in his latest work of fiction, Answered Prayers, when an extract of the novel was published in Esquire magazine in 1975, Capote (inset) found himself barred from the New York social scene. After reading the extract, the women left Capote and became a social pariah until his death in 1984.