An unprecedented look inside the private lives of America’s most powerful women — Jackie Kennedy, Grace Kelly, Elizabeth Taylor, Audrey Hepburn, and Diana Ross, to name just a few — told by the man who held their secrets and witnessed their vulnerabilities.
Coming June 18, 2026
Jackie Kennedy’s Stylist
From Cuban Refugee to the Inner Circles of Power, Beauty, and Fame
A memoir by Peter Lamas with Jeff Nelson.
Manhattan, late 1960s — a young stylist enters rooms of power through craft.
In 1960 Peter Lamas arrived in New York from Havana, fleeing Cuba with nothing. He rebuilt a life as one of the most sought-after hairstylists of his generation, moving quietly through salons, dressing rooms, hotel suites, and private homes where beauty was not decoration — it was armor.
For the women he served, the chair was a place of preparation, confession, reinvention, and control. For Peter, it became a doorway into a world few outsiders ever saw clearly.
After the glamour — the quiet that remains when everyone else has gone.
A meditation on identity, ambition, and what it truly means to belong — told with the discretion of a master and the honesty of a man who finally learned the difference between belonging and becoming.