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Article: The dealer and Miss Jones. (Norton Simon and Jennifer Jones)
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- Los Angeles Magazine
- Article date:
- February 1, 1996
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As 86-year-old Norton Simon lay dying, museum curators circled, hoping to plunder the last great private art collection in America. Would his wife, 40s movie star Jennifer Jones, allow the breakup of the industrialist's billion-dollar legacy? In the first interview since her husband's death, Jones reveals her plans for the world-renowned Norton Simon Museum
The voice on the other end of the phone line sounds tentative, wistful. "Every year I would bring up this thing about having refreshments," she says with the faintest trace of an Oklahoma twang, "but he would say, `I'm not running a restaurant,' and so we left it at that." After canceling twice, Jennifer Jones ...