Posted on 06/30/2003 12:38:24 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - By the time they died in a 1999 plane crash, John F. Kennedy Jr., and his wife, Carolyn Bessette, were living a life of drugs, separate beds and violence, according to a new book by Kennedy family biographer Edward Klein excerpted in Vanity Fair on Monday . In "The Kennedy Curse: Why Tragedy Has Haunted America's First Family for 150 Years," Klein said that two days before he died, Kennedy, the only son of assassinated U.S. President John F. Kennedy, told a friend his marriage was deteriorating.
"It's got to stop. Otherwise we're headed for divorce," Kennedy told the friend in a call from the Stanhope Hotel, where Klein said he took refuge from his wife's cocaine habit and violent temper.
"I want to have kids but whenever I raise the subject with Carolyn, she turns away and refuses to have sex with me," Kennedy told the friend. He had picked out a name, Flyn, for the son he dreamed of having, Klein reported.
Klein quoted Bessette's fashion industry friends as saying it was known she was a heavy user of drugs, and that Kennedy caught her snorting lines of cocaine with friends at the couple's New York apartment. "You're a cokehead," Kennedy screamed at his wife.
A staff member from Kennedy's political magazine, "George," told of a dinner in which Bessette made at least a half dozen trips to the bathroom, returning to the table with white rings around her nostrils. "We went from bar to bar, and she wanted to come over to my apartment, but I said no, because I knew it would be an all-nighter," the friend said. "I ... dropped her off at 3 a.m."
The next morning, Kennedy asked why the staffer and his wife were out so late. The staff member replied: "A better question is why your wife didn't want to go home."
CHEATING HEART
According to friends, Kennedy worried that Carolyn was cheating on him with old flame, Michael Bergin, a "Baywatch" actor and former model of Calvin Klein underwear. They continued their affair even after Bessette had moved in with Kennedy, Klein, a Vanity Fair contributing editor as well as Kennedy biographer, said.
Although Bergin cut off the affair after Bessette's marriage, she continued to taunt her husband with Bergin.
Klein said the actor also revealed Carolyn's violent side in an incident in which Bessette got angry after seeing him light an ex-girlfriend's cigarette at a bar.
She showed up at Bergin's door and threw two heavy candles through a window and a mirror, shattering both. "Then she knocked my television set and VCR onto the floor and jumped on my VCR and squashed it," Bergin told Klein.
"I ran out of the apartment. I'm very athletic and fast, but she caught up with me and started yelling at me and taunting me, calling me a baby."
Kennedy's friends suspected that something similar happened to him when he was rushed to an emergency room for an operation to repair a severed nerve. Kennedy said the injury was an accident, but he had told friends that he felt trapped in an abusive relationship. "Carolyn was like a wild horse," the acquaintance from George told Klein. "She had a trash mouth... She used to call John a fag all the time."
Public scrutiny drove Bessette into depression, the friend said. She refused to leave their apartment and spent long periods crying, telling friends that she hated "living in a fishbowl." Klein said Carolyn reportedly stormed out of a marital counselor's office when her drug use was raised.
Klein said Bessette's self-absorption made her late for the fatal 1999 plane ride with her husband and sister, who had arrived at the airport in New Jersey while it was still light. The plane, piloted by Kennedy, went down in darkness off the coast of Martha's Vineyard near Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Klein quotes a hair colorist named Colin Lively as saying he saw Carolyn order a pedicurist to apply her toenail polish three times that day to match a fabric she had brought to the salon. During the pedicure, her mobile phone rang over and over, Lively told Klein. "What?" she said impatiently into the phone. "I told you I'm getting a pedicure."
A staff member from Kennedy's political magazine, "George," told of a dinner in which Bessette made at least a half dozen trips to the bathroom, returning to the table with white rings around her nostrils.
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"We went from bar to bar, and she wanted to come over to my apartment, but I said no, because I knew it would be an all-nighter," the friend said.
Hmmm.... Was Carolyn also a Coke Ho'?
"She had a trash mouth... She used to call John a fag all the time."
I wonder whose mouth is trashier? Carolyn's or Hillary's.
America's first family? Looks like Kennedy wasn't the only person on drugs. The media should be force-fed every statement like this until they gag. I know I gag every time I see something like this, and it's high time they did too.
The Kennedy family is the degenerate result of a mob-connected old bastard who couldn't find enough love in his heart for his wife, his boys or his daughter to treat them with a tinge of humanity. He was an evil old criminal who brought his mistress to the dinner table with his wife and children. He is the man who passed own his degeneracy to his children and their children. He was a blight and a curse to his family and this nation. So were his offspring. And the more you know about his daughter, the more you know about the man.
The Kennedy family is the ass end of society, not the first family by any stretch of the imagination, unless this is hell and Joe was Satan.
It was pretty much known when she was still alive that Carolyn was snorting La Cocaina. Plus any look at her pics could have told you that as well.
Sigh. Classy family. Obviously hoping his son would continue the family habits and be associated with the phrase, "In like Flyn". What any father hopes for his son, really ...
Camelot? Camelot, you say? Aw dang! And all this time I thought it was came-a-lot.
Another case of really POOR JUDGEMENT by JFK Jr.. How could he not be aware that any son of his with a name like Flyn would be subject to "In Like Flyn" jokes?
Sorry but this story sounds really credible to me. I once went out with some alcoholic chick who acted like a maniac. She once even stabbed me....fortunately it was just a butter knife but it still hurt. Lots of guys know crazy chicks just like this.
You can take the Saint Jack icon down now.
I dunno but I do know that she was the one who INSISTED that the plane land on Martha's Vinyard so that she wouldn't have to take the ferryboat over with the peasants.
Howard Stern warned him NOT to get married.
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