Mr. TAYLOR. Through Christiana, Jeanne's daughter.
Mr. JENNER. Whom you subsequently married?
Mr. TAYLOR. No. This would be the half-sister. I guess it is a
half-sister of my wife's.
Mr. JENNER. All right. We should say, at this point, your former wife?
Mr. TAYLOR. My former wife. This sure is involved.
Mr. JENNER. You are doing all right. Go ahead.
Mr. TAYLOR. And I met Christiana through a mutual girl friend and we
dated over a period of a few weeks and then she left Dallas and started
attending U.C.L.A. as a student, and I don't believe I saw her any more
until--uh--May or June of 1959.
Mr. JENNER. Was the mutual friend through whom you became acquainted a
Nancy Tilton?
Mr. TAYLOR. No, no; the mutual friend was a girl named Judy Mandel, of
Dallas.
Mr. JENNER. Is the name Nancy Tilton familiar to you?
Mr. TAYLOR. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Who is she?
Mr. TAYLOR. She is a cousin of my wife at that time.
Mr. JENNER. And your wife's name was Alexandra?
Mr. TAYLOR. Yes.
At any rate, I met--uh--at this time, I asked Chris out on a date
and she said that she had her little sister--I think is the way she
termed it at that time--visiting her, and could I find someone for her
to go out with at the same time. And I did that, and I think we went
out--couples of four, or two couples--on two occasions. And then I
started dating the younger of the girls, which was Alex. And, during
this time, why, I was in or around their home for a whole summer--in
fact, until the time we married, and quite intimate with the whole
family. Does that bring it chronologically up to date--or would you
like the otherwise?
Mr. JENNER. Well, I don't know what the "otherwise" is.
Mr. TAYLOR. I skipped Mrs. Brandel in this, I think. They were married,
as I mentioned, in New York City approximately 3 months before my
former wife was born and divorced shortly thereafter. And he stayed
away--or stayed in the background of Alex's life until 1958 when he and
Mrs. Brandel, his former wife and Alex's mother went into court and
sued the previously mentioned Mrs. Tilton for her custody.
When Alex was born, Mrs. Tilton paid by check, which I saw, Mrs.
Brandel $5,000 for custody of the daughter, Alex; and they had to go
into court and get this custody set aside--at which time the daughter
went to Paris and lived with Mrs. Brandel, where she lived at that time.
Mr. JENNER. The daughter--this is Christiana?
Mr. TAYLOR. We're talking still about my former wife, Alex.
Mr. JENNER. Your former wife lived in Paris?
Mr. TAYLOR. Yes; my former wife, after the custody suit, was taken to
Paris by her mother where she lived until the spring of 1959, when I
met her.
Mr. JENNER. Now, while she was in Paris, were you dating Christiana?
Mr. TAYLOR. Yes; however, I was not even aware of Alex's existence
until I met her that evening, as previously described.
Mr. JENNER. Have you information as to where Jeanne was born?
Mr. TAYLOR. In China.
Mr. JENNER. That's the present Mrs. De Mohrenschildt?
Mr. TAYLOR. Yes.
My knowledge of her is that--uh--it's rather sketchy, because that's
all my former wife knew of her.
She was born in China. I believe her parentage, at least on one side,
was Russian. She claimed that, at any rate. And she traveled through
her late teens and early twenties--I don't know exactly how long--with
her former husband, Mr. Bogovallenskia, as ballet performers.
Mr. JENNER. I see. I have a spelling of that name, Mr. Taylor, which is
B-o-g-o-v-a-l-l-e-n-s-k-i-a [spelling].
Mr. TAYLOR. That may be more correct. This is phonetic here that I have
[referring to paper].
Mr. JENNER. Is that a maiden name or a married name?