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\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n\t\t\tIn March of 1998, John F. Kennedy Jr. and his wife, Carolyn Bessette, attended the wedding of friends Betsy Reisinger and Kenan Siegel in Miami. Photos from the event show the couple wrapped in a tight embrace, with Bessette\u2019s arms around Kennedy\u2019s neck, her head tilted back as she laughs with abandon. \u201cCarolyn and John [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cSome people just started saying [John John] to imply that they were close to him,\u201d the What Remains<\/em> author pointed out. \u201cI promise you, his sister didn\u2019t call him John John. His mother, no one in his extended family, even, like, the extended cousins, ever called him John John.\u201d<\/p>\nAmerican Prince<\/em> included poignant insights from Carole and others close to John Jr. and Carolyn that demystify the final years of their lives. In one lighthearted moment, Carole reflected on what made John Jr. so different from the other members of the Kennedy clan.<\/p>\n\u201cHe wanted to maybe break some rules, and then he did,\u201d Carole remembered. \u201cIt sounds silly, but he moved downtown to Tribeca when his family lived on the Upper East Side. It was, like, in these little ways, and you\u2019re creating your independence. You\u2019re creating this other life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n![\"GettyImages-1061766932](\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-1061766932-Carole-Radziwill-Debunks-JFK.-Jr-Rumor-e1754515012157.jpg?w=1000&quality=86&strip=all\")
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\n Carole Radziwill in November 2018.<\/span> Jim Spellman\/WireImage)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nJohn Jr. truly got to forge his own path following his mother Jackie\u2019s 1994 death from non-Hodgkin lymphoma in May 1994. However, the magazine editor faced even more adversity at the time because his cousin Anthony had a recurrence of testicular cancer that would ultimately take his life.<\/p>\n
\u201cJohn [Jr.] and Jackie, they were really close,\u201d Carole said. \u201cHe was heartbroken, and it was a very hard time for him, but there was almost, I would say, an emancipation [after Jackie\u2019s death]. I think, for the first time, he felt free to do what he wanted to do in a way that he wouldn\u2019t have when his mom was alive. A lot of good came out of that.\u201d<\/p>\n
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John Jr. and his wife Carolyn\u2019s lives ended in tragedy in July 1999 when the couple \u2014 along with Carolyn\u2019s sister Lauren Bessette<\/strong> \u2014 died in a small private plane crash off the coast of Martha\u2019s Vineyard. For Carole, the trauma of losing her two best friends was compounded when her husband Anthony died less than one month later in August 1999.<\/p>\n
American Prince<\/em> included poignant insights from Carole and others close to John Jr. and Carolyn that demystify the final years of their lives. In one lighthearted moment, Carole reflected on what made John Jr. so different from the other members of the Kennedy clan.<\/p>\n \u201cHe wanted to maybe break some rules, and then he did,\u201d Carole remembered. \u201cIt sounds silly, but he moved downtown to Tribeca when his family lived on the Upper East Side. It was, like, in these little ways, and you\u2019re creating your independence. You\u2019re creating this other life.\u201d<\/p>\n John Jr. truly got to forge his own path following his mother Jackie\u2019s 1994 death from non-Hodgkin lymphoma in May 1994. However, the magazine editor faced even more adversity at the time because his cousin Anthony had a recurrence of testicular cancer that would ultimately take his life.<\/p>\n \u201cJohn [Jr.] and Jackie, they were really close,\u201d Carole said. \u201cHe was heartbroken, and it was a very hard time for him, but there was almost, I would say, an emancipation [after Jackie\u2019s death]. I think, for the first time, he felt free to do what he wanted to do in a way that he wouldn\u2019t have when his mom was alive. A lot of good came out of that.\u201d<\/p>\n You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n John Jr. and his wife Carolyn\u2019s lives ended in tragedy in July 1999 when the couple \u2014 along with Carolyn\u2019s sister Lauren Bessette<\/strong> \u2014 died in a small private plane crash off the coast of Martha\u2019s Vineyard. For Carole, the trauma of losing her two best friends was compounded when her husband Anthony died less than one month later in August 1999.<\/p>\n<\/div>
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