Drugs, Violence Marred JFK Jr.'s Marriage - Report (Another Coke On Toilet Seat Alert)

Reuters ^ | June 30, 2003

[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."

[Under the Radar]

Trash is as trash does.

[Howlin]

I agree with both of you.

This has smear written all over it.

[Arthur McGowan]

That (not speaking ill of the dead) is a totally irrational precept. And when people set themselves up as authorities, or, like the Kennedys, as somehow deserving of hereditary power, their faults and crimes are fair game.

[Hinoki Cypress]

How could the Bessettes collect on Carolyn; she was married to JFK Jr. I could understand collecting on the other woman, her sister, but not on JFKs wife. Just curious as to how that would be legal.

[Sangria]

Who cares if she snorted her nose off, there is no need to talk about it now that they are dead.

[Sangria]

Their faults were fair game when they were alive, but there is just something tacky about dissing the dead. At least to me.

[CatoRenasci]

I agree with you that this is intended as a warning to the Bessettes. People who know them here in Greenwich generally think well of them, and more than a few felt she was marrying beneath herself with Kennedy.

Has anyone considered whether JFKjr drove her to drugs and violence? Most of the Kennedys have a history of treating their women much worse than their dogs, and of being debauched rake-hells.

[Lockbar]

I heard storys before the deaths that she was big trouble. I wouldn't be surprised if his wife and sister-in-law started riding his butt during the fatal flight, and he couldn't take it anymore. Perhaps he had a minor nervous breakdown, took his hands off the control yoke, and let the plane go down on its own.

[BossLady]

Heard the same! The Kennedys thought Darryl Hannah was a handful....HA!! She was an amateur compared to Carolyn.!!!!

[joesnuffy]

Yes the poor rich things..
Just "Victims" of the Kennedy curse
of wealth ,unrestrained power, education, and getting away with murder...

[tiamat]

DoughtyOne wrote:

"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........."

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THANK YOU!

I never have understood why these peope are worshipped here.

Tia

[Ceoman]

Am surprised that the name of the furniture store owner in Soho or there abouts that she was supposedly having an affair with never came to light.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

Has anyone considered whether JFKjr drove her to drugs and violence? Most of the Kennedys have a history of treating their women much worse than their dogs, and of being debauched rake-hells.

I was thinking that very same thing.

[DoughtyOne]

I'm not sure you'll find many who idolize them here. Of course you probably meant here (as in the United States). It's all a media love affair with John, Jackie and the kids. Of course that's if you ignore the idea that they try to pass off today's agenda on the backs of these icons they created. As much as I don't care for John Kennedy any longer, I think he'd roll over in his grave if he had any idea what his brother and his cronies back these days. Course John was about as crooked as he could be for his day.

[tiamat]

Oh no!

I meant :"Why are the Kennedys worshipped in AMERICA! "
I should have been more clear.

At least John got Special forces going with teh Green Berets, and influenced the Space program for the moon landing.....

SIGH.

Tia

[DoughtyOne]

He also implemented a significant tax cut to spur the economy, which really muted the Democrats ability to successfully object when Republicans wanted to do the same thing. Course it didn't stop them from trying.

[Pablo64]

RE: Your post #5.

I think that is probably the most succinct and accurate summation of the Kennedy's I have ever seen. Excellent. I will quote you on that, you can be sure.

Made my day. Sadly, my mom thinks JFK walked on water just because he was the first Catholic president (she's real "old school" on that).

[utahagen]

Carolyn's mother could sue JFK Jr's estate for her own loss of two daughters, claiming he had been reckless in flying that plane. It wouldn't matter that JFK Jr had been married to one of the girls.

[tiamat]

Had no clue.

Thank you for telling me!

Tia

[DoughtyOne]

I said the other day on the forum that John was incredibly charismatic.  I can still see him walking with that smile of his.  While I don't approve of John's character flaws, he was a man's man.  He exuded verility and ease within himself.  John was the man Bill Clinton saw within himself, but Bill Clinton was never John Kennedy.  He was Eddie Haskel trying to act like John Kennedy.  Clinton thought himself quite the man.  No, he was quite the insecure little child, and it showed.

Your mom probably remembers the charming Kennedy who got us through the Cuban Missile Crisis.  Let her have her memories.  Just remind her of the few things Kennedy did and how they contrast with today's Democrat.  Kennedy served honorably in our armed services.  Bill Clinton fled the country and lied.