Carolyn Jeanne Bessette Kennedy (January 7, 1966 – July 16, 1999) was the wife of John F. Kennedy, Jr., the son of assassinated U.S. President John F. Kennedy.
Bessette was born in White Plains, Westchester County, New York to William J. Bessette and Ann Messina Freeman, an administrator in the New York public school system. She grew up in affluent Greenwich, Connecticut, and attended St. Mary's High School, where she was voted an "All-Around Bea...
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Carolyn Jeanne Bessette Kennedy (January 7, 1966 – July 16, 1999) was the wife of John F. Kennedy, Jr., the son of assassinated U.S. President John F. Kennedy.
Bessette was born in White Plains, Westchester County, New York to William J. Bessette and Ann Messina Freeman, an administrator in the New York public school system. She grew up in affluent Greenwich, Connecticut, and attended St. Mary's High School, where she was voted an "All-Around Beautiful Person." After graduating from Boston University in 1988, she went to work at a Calvin Klein store in Boston.
She worked as a saleswoman at the Calvin Klein store in Boston before being transferred to New York, where she worked as a publicist and met John F. Kennedy, Jr. The attractive couple became a popular paparazzi target, with gossip columns detailing where they ate and shopped and even covered the arguments they had. Photographers waited outside the couple's Tribeca apartment to snap photographs. Bessette was reportedly very...
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