cheated on his wife Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy less than 48 hours before her tragic death in a plane crash, a new book suggests.
President John F. KennedyHis son, 38, and Carolyn, 33, were killed in July 1999 along with their sister Lauren, 34, while he was piloting them in a light aircraft. New Jersey for Massachusetts.
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It was later determined that magazine editor John-John was unable to maintain control of the plane due to spatial disorientation as it descended over the water at night on Martha’s Vineyard.
A new biography of Bessette-Kennedy details how her sudden downfall came as the tumultuous, high-profile relationship was falling into disarray.
Author Elizabeth Beller writes in Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy that the couple stopped sleeping together and were in couples therapy toward the end of their lives.
Beller says that Calvin Klein publicist Carolyn was on a “steady diet of antidepressants,” which affected her libido and that she expressed dismay at the idea of getting pregnant.
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Against this backdrop, Beller claims that two nights before the accident, JFK Jr. received an overnight visit from his ex-girlfriend Julie Baker at the Stanhope Hotel in Manhattanwhere he was staying after arguing with Carolyn.
The next morning, JFK Jr. and Baker were seen having breakfast together at the hotel.
Baker was a model that JFK Jr. met in 1989 and dated until 1991.
The couple had their first date at a stand-up performance by Andrew Dice Clay.
Sasha Chermayeff, a close friend of JFK Jr., told Beller: “I knew Julie was a past lover and assumed it was a sexually intimate encounter, but that was just what I assumed.
“I was aware of the struggles in his marriage and his past with Julie, so I assumed. But I never spoke to John about it.
Beller reveals that shortly before the accident, JFK Jr. and Carolyn went to dinner with TV host Christiane Amanpour and her then-husband Jamie Rubin on Martha’s Vineyard.
Later, when JFK Jr. asked his former college roommate, Amanpour, if she and Rubin planned to have children, the British-Iranian journalist confirmed that they were trying to get pregnant.
Carolyn is said to have commented: “Oh, please don’t say that. If you get pregnant, John will want us to get pregnant too.”
The book quotes JFK Jr.’s longtime mentor, George Plimpton, who said that Carolyn’s fear of media glare and crowds impacted her desire to have children.
“If they had survived, I have no doubt she would have learned to cope. They would have children,” Plimpton said.
In addition to the tension of being prominent public figures belonging to America’s most famous family, the book largely blames JFK Jr. and Carolyn’s marriage problems on a lack of sex.
An unhappy Carolyn, who was taking antidepressants at the time, “just refused to sleep” with her husband, Beller says.
Sasha Chermayeff said: “The prescriptions are handed out like candy and do not inform about the side effects, which for antidepressants can be a serious decrease in libido.”
But the book vehemently denies rumors that Carolyn herself cheated on her husband.
According to Beller, Carolyn’s friend MJ Bettenhausen said, “She wouldn’t have risked her marriage to John.
“Crying on her shoulder, perhaps, but she wouldn’t have strayed.”
Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy will be published on May 21.
The US Sun reached out to Julie Baker for comment but did not receive a response.
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