Carolyn Bessette left JFK Jr. furious after kissing another man, new book claims

Could I ask everyone what the fascination is with this guy? Yes, he was handsome and the son of a president who had a Lothario reputation and was tragically murdered. Still, he wasn't handsomer than millions of other men, he was never really remarkable at anything (not particularly intelligent, not a great student, not a talented artist, not a humanist or notorious philanthropist); he was just the son of wealthy and very famous parents who got everything handed out to him and did well enough, because in those circumstances you only need the minimum amount of effort not to sink.

Also, his mother was pretentious and incredibly tacky in her behaviour, equally mediocre and rather plain. As for JF Kennedy, he was a rather unsavoury character himself, even if he was a dashing man. Also, both the Kennedys and the Bouviers were new money with lots of ridiculous pretensions, with the difference that at least the Kennedys didn't have to pretend to be above their station - not to mention that by most accounts, both families were quite trashy and vulgar. Thus, I have never understood where the beautiful, exceptional-at-everything, super-refined and tragic royalty reputation comes from. They were merely one or two steps above the Trumps of the world.

As for Carolyn Bessette, she looked and behaved like every other self-conscious parvenue who neurotically rehearses everything she does in order to project the right image, was equally uninteresting (not intelligent, just average student, etc) and was verging on ugly. The only thing she had going for her is that she was tall and blonde, appeared aloof most o the time and had that dull, predictable sense of style that many people think is a sign of true sophistication. I have never read much about this couple's personal lives, but a little bit of cheating, a bitchy wife and a self-centered husband don't make a tragedy - it's, again, pretty ordinary.

The one that has always interested me is Jackie O: plain, mediocre, boring, arrogant, petty, untalented, greedy, tacky (use your repulsively ugly Greek husband's money to buy haute couture dresses in Europe and then send them to the US to resell them at a profit? Pure class 🙄 ), selfish, lacking in empathy and obsessed with status, yet people admire her and consider her an icon to this day, and some of the world's wealthiest and most powerful men wanted to marry her... Why? How? Cases like these are truly fascinating.

As for these two, it was tragic that they died, of course, but their lives previous to their accident were pretty insipid.

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