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Why Gwyneth Paltrow 'Irked' Carolyn Bessette, According to New Book

HOLLYWOOD, JUL 19 – Gwyneth Paltrow's biography reveals how jealousy, self-destructive behavior, and possible infidelity led to her 1996 engagement breakup with Ben Affleck.

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In the mid-90s, Gwyneth Paltrow and a not-yet-married Carolyn Bessette were both blonde, beautiful, privileged and fashionable young women raised in or around NYC who would dominate national headlines — but they decidedly were not friends. In Gwyneth: The Biography, author Amy Odell reports that the fellow It Girls had a professional connection via Calvin Klein, where the future Mrs. Kennedy served as a publicist and Paltrow was a celebrity clie…

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