Jon Kennedy Junior and Carolin Betset: Passion, addiction and tragedy on the small screen
Getting to know each other, love, class, dream and tragedy of John Kennedy Junior and Anti-Influencer before even the term Caroline Beset is the material of the new series signed by Ryan Murphy, creator of television hits American Horror Story.
The brothers who often bring stories to the screen that shocked tabloid and headlines, such as designer fashion murder Gianni Versace or Betty Davis and Joan Crawford’s tearful dislike, found the ingredients in the story to make another success in the port.
The American Horror Story becomes American Love Story and the series has already found Carolin Beset’s television.
Although it has not been announced who will portray John Kennedy Junior or his mother, Jackie Kennedy, Betaet was awarded to Sarah Pitzon, the young actress who became known for her participation in The Wilds and Tiny Beautiful Things.
« We want to tell this story very much, » said Nina Jakobson, producer of the series in Variety. « It’s a story that is really popular right now. It’s amazing. Many younger women see Beset as an idol and this love an American love story. «
If they carry a hagiography, a drama or something that will refresh their tragic myth, it remains to be proven.
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The light
John Kennedy Junior and Carolin Beset were the US gold couple before their tragic end that cut off the beginning of their common life.
Born just 17 days after his father’s emergence to the President of the United States, John Kennedy Junior was charming, photogenic and the prince who the US always wanted to have.
A celebrity lover, from Mandona in his relationship with Daryl Hannah who (classically) her mother Jackie, John Kennedy Junior, fell in love with Calvin Klein’s younger public relations officer, Carolin Beset, and two years after his wife.
‘Never fly with both my girls together on the plane’
The couple got married in the summer of 1996 at a discreet ceremony on an island outside Georgia, and Beset, who was not the descendant of a dynasty but a successful executive in the fashion industry, confirmed wearing the bridal Narcisso Rodriguez that she was a minimal priest.
The paparazzi claimed them, the couple lived their common life in Tribeca, New York, and Betaet was trying to become familiar with the media’s intervention in their private sphere. This was not even a matter for John Kennedy Junior who always had the lens on him -already since he bid farewell to his father with a military greeting at his last exit.
Beset was aggressive towards him, as well as her while their family’s relationships were not friendly, John Kennedy’s mother, Jackie did not like Beset’s mother at all -and showed it
Although he did not pursue a political career, Camelot’s Junior became publisher of George Magazine, believing in the fourth power, though his biographers say that at some point, if he lived, he would enter the political arena with presidential moods.
Athletic and adventure fan and extreme sports John Kennedy Junior always wanted to pilot a plane. The tragic figure of the end of the couple Betaet’s mother who is said to have prophesied to her groom:
« Never fly with both my girls together on the plane. »
The darkness
Over the years, their myth began to multiply with many stories that were out of publicity.
Sources from the couple’s environment have spoken of addiction to substances -cocaine -, wedding problems behind closed doors, a lover in Betset’s life and a storm in the new Camelot.
In the book JFK Jr, An Intimate Oral Biography by Rosemarie Terenzio and Liz McNeil published in the summer of 2024, there are revelations and stories that confirm that every Rhodes has thorns.
The book states that the couple was having problems while John Kennedy Junior was living in difficult days shortly before the fatal flight.
John Kennedy Junior lost his favorite first cousin, Anthony Ratzivil, and found it difficult to find financiers for the release of George.
Beset was aggressive towards him, as well as her, while their families’ relationships were not friendly, John Kennedy’s mother, Jackie, did not like Betaet’s mother at all -and showed it.
The couple was sleeping outside the house (« Maybe Carolin was trying to make him worry (not going home.) He did it again, he was really immature. He wasn’t with her the last two nights before their death, » says Junior’s friend in the book), he loved her.
The journalist and author of the book The Kennedy Curse: Why Tragedy Has Haunted America’s First Family for 150 Years, Edward Clein, has argued that Beset-Benndy has frequently used cocaine, « which made her behave paranoid »
All of this, combined with the weight of Kennedy’s name, allegedly darkened Beset while many of their quarrels started from refusing to have children, something that he himself wanted very much.
Indeed, the journalist and writer of The Kennedy Curse: Why Tragedy has haunted America’s First Family for 150 Years, Edward Clein, has argued that Betaet-Bennedy has frequently used cocaine, « which made her behave paranoid. »
The couple seems to even think about divorce, according to a Beset friend, journalist and wife of Junior’s cousin Carol Rajibil. But they did everything they could to give their marriage, she added.
Their end came abruptly, denials or confirmations will never exist
The end came abruptly, denials or confirmations will never exist.
The son of murdered US President John Kennedy, and his wife Beset was the epitome of the American dream that became a nightmare when on July 16, 1999, the plane he was piloting, fell to the Atlantic ocean, killing her.
The couple was flying with their Piper Saratoga to attend Keri Kennedy’s wedding to Martha’s Vineyard. Carolin is said to have not wanted to fly to that family celebration.
He was 38, she 33 and the truths and secrets will always be with them.
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