In September 1996, John F. Kennedy Jr., son of the late former U.S. President John F. Kennedy jr., and Carolyn Bessett were sworn in at a chapel on Cumberland Island, Georgia.
People magazine covered the wedding
As the most chased couple in the world by paparazzi, they do their best to keep all secrets, and even the wedding ceremony is lit under the cover of night.
At first, the media portrayed the marriage as a fairy tale: a rich and handsome woman in the world who could have had any woman chose a civilian family girl who was not rich, not famous, and had no special skills.
It wasn't until years after their deaths that the marital catastrophe of depression, drugs, infidelity, violence, and hysteria gradually surfaced, and people realized that fairy tales are all lies, and that princes are not necessarily the ones who can bring happiness and happy endings.
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Kennedy Jr. first met Caroline Bessette in the VIP showroom of the famous fashion brand Calvin Klein. Caroline was Calvin Klein's director of public relations at the time.
外表柔柔弱弱却很有主见、又带点异域风情的卡罗琳一下子就把小肯尼迪给迷住了。
Kennedy Jr. is also a famous playboy, once named "the sexiest man" by People magazine, and the kind of girlfriends who can be lined up: a generation of singers Madonna, goddess Brooke, supermodel Cindy Crawford, "Sex and the City" heroine Sarah Jessica Parker, billionaire Hannah, actress Christina Hagrid... And so on, used to be Kennedy Jr.'s girlfriend.
In the past, girls cared about him, flattered him, and did not easily disobey him. 可这次，卡罗琳总是一副公事公办、疏离冷淡的样子，没太把小肯尼迪当回事，反倒激发了他的兴趣。
He likes women who have opinions and are a little hard. Caroline is exactly.
Caroline grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut, and was a high school student. When she was a student at Boston University, she also worked as a cover girl for the school calendar.
After graduating from college, the stylish, beautiful, tall Carrolle worked as a publicity worker at a nightclub in Boston, only to be discovered by Calvin Klein and introduced her to work at their headquarters in New York.
They come from two different worlds.
Unlike Kennedy Jr., Caroline grew up in an ordinary middle-class family with twin sisters.
Their mother was a teacher and her father worked for a kitchen design company, but their parents divorced when they were very young. Later, her mother remarried, and the family moved to Greenwich, Connecticut, with their stepfather, who was a surgeon.
Faced with such a prominent political family, Caroline's pressure was everywhere.
In 1968, the late presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy and his wife Ethel were on their way to the presidential race
Ethel Kennedy
When she was first introduced to the extended family, Ethel Kennedy, wife of the late U.S. Attorney General and Senator Robert Kennedy, asked Caroline at the dinner table what she thought of current events:
"So, do you think the federal assault weapons ban will affect crime in our country, my dear?"
面对“肯尼迪家族女家长”的突然提问，一向能言善道的公关总监卡罗琳口吃了，“我... Well... I... belch... 我想会的吧。 ”
卡罗琳和小肯尼迪相遇的时候，卡罗琳有个男友，卡尔文·克莱因的顶流内衣模特迈克尔·伯金。
And Kennedy Jr. also has a girlfriend, the rich Hannah, although Kennedy Jr.'s mother, Jacqueline, doesn't like Hannah very much.
After Jacqueline's death in 1994, Kennedy Jr. complained to a friend: My mother died, I was in a bad mood, she (Hannah) not only did not comfort me, but also complained to me that her dog was sick, and all she cared about was her dog.
All kinds of disagreements made kennedy jr. cut off Hannah shortly after his mother's death.
Kennedy Jr. and Hannah
这时，八卦记者拍到了在纽约马拉松赛的终点线附近，小肯尼迪亲吻卡罗琳的照片，这让迈克尔·伯金颇为生气，找她质问。
"我跟他没什么，“她告诉伯金。
Caroline has a special aura that immediately attracts attention. Like Little Kennedy's mother, Jacqueline, she possessed an incredible ability to talk to six people at the same time, making each person feel like the only one in the room.
Caroline is 182 cm tall, and her excellent figure, temperament and manners can impress all the people she has met.
Many people admit that the photos don't reflect how beautiful she is in real life. Even with Sweetheart Rachel and supermodel Kate Moss, he didn't lose.
In 1995, in the middle of spring, Caroline moved into Kennedy Jr.'s apartment in a prime manhattan location in New York.
The two are becoming more and more serious about the relationship.
The staff at Kennedy Jr.'s office recalled that his sister Caroline (yes, Kennedy Jr.'s own sister was also called Caroline, the same name) was the only one who allowed him to always answer the phone. Now, with the addition of Miss Caroline Bessette. He was completely captivated.
On the weekend of July 4, 1995, Kennedy Jr. invited Caroline to go fishing.
On the calm surface of the lake, John proposed to her. "It's a lot of fishing with your partner, and a lot of things in life are better with your beloved partner," he adds.
结果，卡罗琳并没有马上答应下来，要求给她更多的时间考虑。
Three weeks passed, and caroline didn't respond affirmatively to John. The suspense made him even more eager to marry her.
Caroline was also distinctly different from the women Kennedy Jr. had dated before, and that was that she was very cold, which made him very happy, because the women who had been proactive in the past had made him wonder if they had other motives, and Caroline wouldn't.
He liked her fashion taste and felt very similar to his mother, just like his mother Jacqueline had a unique style, she also had her own unique style.
Kennedy Jr. once told a friend that he liked ambitious and purposeful women like his mother. But Caroline is more than that, she is a control freak, making all kinds of demands and conditions, even very unreasonable, but he loves her crazy.
On September 21, 1996, the two were married. The preparation of the wedding is like the preparation of military operations, everything is carried out in secret. Only a few close friends and family know.
Everything seemed to go well, until the wedding day, when Caroline was wearing her wedding dress, she found that she couldn't put on the $40,000 pearl-colored silk dress. So he began to hysterically yell at the people around him.
She had to put on her wedding dress, and as a result, she had to walk on the beach and wear high heels, and she was two hours late. Little Sister Kennedy, who has always been punctual, couldn't help but say, how come you are even late for your wedding.
On the right is Kennedy Jr.'s sister
Kennedy Jr.'s cousin and his closest friend Anthony Laziwell served as the best man for the wedding. At the end of the wedding, John turned around and told him he had never been so happy in his life.
Anthony Ratsevel dances with Caroline
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等这对夫妇度蜜月回来时，他们发现记者已经在他们的公寓——曼哈顿北摩尔街20号的前门外安营扎寨了。
In the face of the media's long guns and short guns, Caroline was very annoyed. To protect his wife, Kennedy Jr. pleaded with reporters and videographers to back off a bit and give her a chance to adapt to her new role.
But reporters turned a deaf ear to it.
Caroline's photographs can be seen everywhere. The reporters found that the girl's temperament and style were too attractive.
Caroline loves simple design. It is precisely because of the blessing of temperament and figure, even the simple skirt is still amazingly beautiful on her.
The background alone is beautiful
Unlike Caroline, John, who grew up in the spotlight, has long been accustomed to the pursuit and interception of the media. Even, sometimes, to get noticed, he often made outrageous moves, such as deliberately bare-chested and shirtless in Central Park, or taking pictures of reporters while sailing with Caroline.
Little Kennedy with his father
In his view, attention is synonymous with power. And, like most superstars, he's afraid of the emptiness that comes with being ignored.
But Caroline was different. As time went on, she became more and more unable to cope with life that was exposed to the reporter's camera every moment. When faced with a photographer approaching her on the street, she immediately lowered her eyes, shrugged her shoulders, and carried her back.
In fact, in many of the photos, she looks like a small animal that has been hunted.
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Caroline began to experience the typical symptoms of depression.
A few months after the wedding, she began to shut herself in her home and not go out for days.
And Kennedy Jr.'s social life was so rich that Caroline couldn't cope. She didn't want to go out, didn't want to socialize, and gradually stopped interacting with many people.
Her parents divorced when she was a child and was pessimistic about marriage. Her insecurities made her want to control everything even more.
她总是怀疑丈夫劈腿，整天疑神疑鬼，有时候直接打电话到他公司找人。 有一次，她给他的办公室发传真："请现在回家，我需要你。 “
And john after getting married seems to have returned to the original bachelor lifestyle - late at night in the gym to pick up iron, the brothers said to go out kayaking and couldn't find anyone for a whole weekend.
Caroline became increasingly paranoid.
She was even jealous of Kennedy Jr.'s sister and his partner in George magazine, Michael Berman.
She always told Kennedy Jr. bad things about Michael Berman, "'I don't believe Michael is your real friend.'" The only reason he's with you is because you're John F. Kennedy Jr. "
Eventually John's relationship with Berman deteriorated and Berman resigned. Partly for this reason, George magazine was on the verge of bankruptcy.
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卡罗琳的抑郁越来越严重，而约翰创办的《乔治》杂志事务繁重也让他分身乏术，无暇顾及妻子。
Once, when John returned to his apartment hungry from work at night, he found Caroline lying on all fours on the floor in front of the couch, her eyes hollow, and freshly smoked cocaine on the coffee table. 旁边是一群时尚圈的人，服装设计师、造型师、男模特和公关人员，个个醉醺醺的，有的一看就是同性恋。
Caroline, without her husband's permission, gave her fox friends the keys to the apartment so they could come and go as they pleased.
"You addict!" John was angry and yelled at her.
Friends in the fashion industry know that Caroline sucks drugs very badly.
An acquaintance once recalled, "One night, John was resting at home from a serious cold and asked me to accompany Caroline out to dinner. For a meal, she went to the bathroom at least six times. Back at the table, a circle of white carboine can be seen around the nostrils. After dinner, we changed several places to play, all the bars were closed, and she didn't want to go home. ”
Caroline kept in touch with her boyfriend, Birkin, until she got married. A year after the marriage, Caroline, who was under great pressure, began to look for Birkin again.
With ex-boyfriend Birkin
According to Berzin's later recollection, Caroline seemed desperate and pleaded with Berkin to "save" her from her marriage to John.
In her hotel room in Seattle, "she screamed uncontrollably, cried so loudly that she was barely out of breath," he wrote. "I was scared. I watched her collapse and I didn't know what to do. ”
Caroline's mouth also became more vicious, even ignoring her friends, and sarcastically said to her husband, "John is like a gay man, making himself smelly all day." ”
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Caroline and Kennedy Jr. were both grumpy. The media often photographed the two arguing in broad daylight.
有一次，小肯尼迪右手腕被割断神经还被送往急诊室做手术，大家都认为是卡罗琳动的手。
在一次争吵中，卡罗琳怒气冲冲地告诉约小肯尼迪，她仍然跟伯金上床。 卡罗琳想用这种激将法，从他的身上得到任何她想要的关注。
The only person in the world who thinks Caroline would choose her ex-boyfriend Birkin over Little Kennedy is Kennedy Jr.
Kennedy Jr. gave in.
In the face of Caroline's changes, he felt that it was he who should reflect more than his wife.
他说服卡罗琳去看心理医生。 He made sure she was taking antidepressants. 为了哄她开心，带她到国外度假。
However, it does not help.
In March 1999, four months before the plane crash, he and she received marriage counseling. When the counselor asked her about her drug use, Caroline was furious and rushed out of the treatment room and left.
The pressure on Kennedy Jr. is also growing.
George magazine had reached an unsustainable point; his closest cousin, Anthony Laziwell, was dying of cancer; he and his sister had been debating what to do with the furniture and important objects in their parents' homes, and the two hadn't spoken for nearly a year.
Kennedy Jr. always wanted a child, even a name: Flynn. But Caroline didn't want to be angry.
"I hate living in a fish tank," she confided to a friend. John may have gotten used to it, but I wasn't. How can I bring a child into such a world?
卡罗琳开始拒绝同房，睡在小肯尼迪用来存放运动器材的空房间里。
小肯尼迪感到被羞辱。 Eventually, he moved out of the apartment and moved into the stanhope hotel next door.
Two days before his death, Caroline's sister Lauren Besseter asked the two to have lunch at the Stanhope Hotel café in an attempt to persuade the couple to reconcile.
The Three Bessette Sisters and Kennedy Jr
At first, neither couple was in the mood to talk, and Lauren tried to break the deadlock. She asked john and Caroline to hold her hands. 起初两人都拒绝，但在劳伦的坚持下，他们不情愿地握住了她的手。
劳伦知道卡罗琳最不愿意坐小肯尼迪开的飞机。 But she strongly recommended that she accompany him to Hyannis Harbor for the wedding of his cousin Rory Kennedy.
Seeing that Caroline was a little resistant, she offered to fly with them so that she could spend the weekend with her friends at the nearby Martha's Vineyard.
What happened next, the whole world knows.
Media reported the disappearance of the plane piloted by Kennedy Jr
On July 16, 1999, john F. Kennedy Jr., 38, was killed while crashing into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. Along with his wife, Caroline, 33, and lauren Bessette, 34, his sister-in-law, no one survived.
后来，事故调查专家相信最有可能的失事原因就是小肯尼迪在夜晚飞行时迷失方向--用航空术语来说，就是空间感错乱。 In this case, even when the pilot is spiraling down or falling, he or she still thinks he is flying horizontally.
The public memory of the couple who loved and killed each other still puts them in the spotlight, even years after their deaths.
There was even a newspaper that said: "The story of the Kennedy family is a long series of obituary... As a member of the Kennedy family, you don't expect to lie in bed and die quietly. ”
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