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."
My what a weak woman she must have been!I am just so happy you were kind enough to let us all know this little tidbit. I have never heard that before,thankyou,Onyx.
I hope you mistyped,because if that is what she actually wrote I wouldn't spend a penny for her book. I would also accuse her of sloppy research,or deliberately misrepresenting facts,either of which is very damaging to her credibility.
I did a Google search and found the Berlin Wall went up in August of 1961 and the Cuban Crisis occurred the following year.
Had I not been so disgusted with the feeding frenzy that occurs whenever Freepers see the Kennedy name I never would have bothered to check.So you better be careful or you all will start eating your own.
I'll put it in quotes, because I'll make the presumption that Bennett46 got it right: Ann Coulter sez - "...Kennedy's failure of will at the Bay of Pigs made a greater confrontation with the Soviet Union inevitable. In short order Krushchev built the Berlin Wall..."
Bay of Pigs invasion ends - April 1961
Berlin Wall started - August 1961
I hope you mistyped,because if that is what she actually wrote I wouldn't spend a penny for her book. I would also accuse her of sloppy research,or deliberately misrepresenting facts,either of which is very damaging to her credibility.
I'd like you to take this statement back and apologize to Bennett46 for your sloppy research.
I suggest as your penance that you buy TWO copies of Ann's book, and give one to a liberal friend.
LOL!! I hope some day to go to Ireland. My family roots are from County Cork. I imagine that I still have some very distant relatives there. Hopefully none of them have a bust of JFK ;-)
And wasn't that 'navigation' out of the Cuban missile crisis a whole lot less impressive than we've been taught by the liberal media?
Didn't the US have to move some missiles or bases out of Turkey, as a quid pro quo for Krushchev's taking missiles out of Cuba?
IIRC this wasn't reported until many years after-the-fact, so as not to tarnish St. JFK.
I was mixing up events and posts and have no excuse. Those are the kind of mistakes that I hate because they result in ever escalating complications and confusion in the world. People do enough outright lying and having an overreactive,angry person posting misinformation helps no one. I am sorry and I will buy one copy of her book.
We all make some bad mistakes in life.
Personally, I liked JFKjr and he deserves no grief from me simply because he's related to Jabba the Kennedy-Hut (D-Mass).
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