A Kennedy relative is trying to rewrite the final chapter of his mom’s love life by editing out her longtime companion, the co-founder of the famed New York Review of Books, according to co💯urt papers.
John Radziwill, the son of Grace Dudley and the late Prince Stanislas Radziwill of Monaco — who later married Jacqueli𓆏ne Kennedy Onassis’ sister Lee — is locked in a legal fight with the estate of legendary editor Robert Silvers.
Radziwill, whose father divor𝔍ced Dudley in 1959, refuses to turn over more than $614,000 in art and antiques 🐠his mother left to Silvers — and won’t acknowledge the editor co-owned the couple’s $2.6 million Park Avenue pad, the executor for Silvers’ estate charges.
Silvers met Dudley in 1975, and the two were together for 40 years until Dudley’s death at 93 in December. Silꦏvers, 87, died in March.
Silvers was a book editor who swooped in during a 1963 printers strike to help found the influential New York Review of Books. Dudley was an intellectual socialite wit༺h a habit of marrying nobility. Among her ex-husbands were a prince — Radziwill 🌄— and a British earl, William Ward of Dudley.
“They were together until the end,” Silvers’ nephew, Samuel, told The Post of his uncle a♔nd Grace Dudley. “She was a very lively lady . . .🔜 She and Bob were both interested in books and opera and had a lot of friends in common.
“He was in his office seven days ꦺa week and only Grace could get him to come out,” he recalled.
Toward the end of her life, the wheelchair-bound Dudley lived in Lausanne, Switzerland, and Bob dutifully flew out to see 🦹her every two weeks, his nephew said.
“He loved Grace very much,” the younger Silvers said. “She had strong opinions and she was extremely well read. She spoke about 20 languag🌱es.”
Sam Silvers recalled visiting Dudley in Switzerland, where she drove him around in a staꦺtion wagon.
“She drove vꦛery fast,” he laughed. “She was a ball of fire.”
Dudley left 74 pieces of art and antiques to Silvers, including an En🐟glish ironstone dinner service from the 1800s worth $22,000 and George IV candlesticks priced at $12,000. The value of more than a dozen artworks Dudley left Silvers is unknown, according to Manhattan Surrogates Court papers.
Silvers chipped in a portion of the $2.6 million used to buy the Upper East Side co𓄧-op they shared, giving him a 38 percent stake in the home, his executor, New York Review of Books publisher Rea S. Hederman, claims in the legal filing.
But Dudley’s son, Radziwill, whose name is o🔥n the apartment’s mortgage, allegedly won’t give Hederman access to the home or the property inside.
The two sides are due for a courtroom showdo🦋wn inꦉ September.
Radziwill, 70, filed in Manhattan federal court to f🤪orce Hederman into arbitration to settle their beef. A lawyer for R🌜adziwill did not return messages.
Silvers changed his wi💛ll after Dudley’s death, giving half of his $9.5 million estate to his nieces and nephews and the other half to a foundation bearing his name.
The edito🔥r’s nephew wasn’t aware of any dispute between his⛦ uncle and Dudley’s family.
“She loved her son very much, I know that,” he said, adding, “the court will figure i🏅t out.”