Jean Harris - Life With Tarnower

Life With Tarnower

Harris met Tarnower, a respected cardiologist (later known, due to a popular diet book he published, as the "Scarsdale Diet Doctor"), in December 1966, the year after her divorce. They then began a 14-year relationship. Though Tarnower showered Harris with gifts and exotic vacations, he had multiple relationships with other women during these years.

Harris worked as the headmistress of the Madeira School while continuing her long-distance relationship with Tarnower, whose relationships with other women she reluctantly tolerated. Tarnower prescribed Harris multiple medications over the course of several years.

In the 1970s, Tarnower hired Lynne Tryforos, a woman more than thirty years his junior, to work as a secretary-receptionist at the Scarsdale Medical Center. They began a sexual relationship that lasted until his death.