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The Real Story Of ‘Love Story’—Who Were JFK Jr. & Carolyn Bessette?

  • On February 13, the anthology premiered on Hulu and FX with three episodes, centering on John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette in Ryan Murphy's Love Story.
  • Biographer Elizabeth Beller says they met at a Calvin Klein fitting in 1992 while Bessette worked there, and he gave her his number afterward.
  • They married in an intimate ceremony on September 21, 1996, at the First African Baptist Church on a remote island off Georgia, with Carolyn's custom crepe silk Narciso Rodriguez slip dress crystallized minimalist bridal fashion.
  • In the last few months before their deaths, John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette attended marriage counseling while house-hunting and discussing starting a family.
  • A flight piloted by John F. Kennedy Jr. ended in a crash off Martha's Vineyard; experts cite spatial disorientation, and autopsies confirmed all three died upon impact.
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This weekend she premieres at Disney+ Love Story, the new FX miniseries that explores the intense engagement and media marriage of one of the most iconic couples of the 20th century: John Kennedy and Carolyn Bessette. Her story caught the attention of an entire nation, since the son of the president of the United States murdered in Dallas was in this land without kings the closest thing to a member of a blue-blooded family.

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Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette, on Disney+ from Friday 13 February, retraces the story of the couple: from the encounter to media success, to the cracks caused by exposure and private tensions. A story of the love and the price of celebrity, until the tragedy of 1999. A stroke of lightning, of those capable of overcoming all prejudice. The love between John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette, the blue eyes under the hair of …

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