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On the morning after his mother's burial, John was back at his desk. He went back to work," a friend of John's told Esquire. The famous Cindy Crawford graced the first cover issue, dressed as George Washington. This was John's bounce back into action. Richard Bradley, the then executive editor at George , noted that the magazine launch felt like a victory for John, and Carolyn too, "[Carolyn] was excited about John, about his drive and determination and the fact that he's found something that gave him purpose.

She wanted to be with him the whole way. In , he told Taraborrelli, "Family is family. You can pick the Kennedys apart, and I'm sure you will. But at the end of the day, we're just people trying to understand each other as we share this incredible life we've all been blessed with. It's nothing more than just that. The public saw all that the engaged couple was doing for the Royal family. When friends spent time with them, they "Felt John had really put forth a new power couple in the family," as Bradley explained.

They saw that Carolyn was becoming the woman behind the man, and believed Jackie would've been proud too. Unlike many men in his family, including his late father, President John F. Kennedy, Jr. So, John wasn't too old-fashioned after all. Carolyn admitted to a friend, Stewart Price, how scared she was by things she had seen going on in the family.

After he reminded her that John was different, she said, "It's a good thing, too. I know myself and I'm definitely not that pathetic Kennedy wife who'll stay home with the kids while her husband is out screwing around I'm that pissed off Kennedy wife who'll be in prison because she took matters into her own hands," she reportedly said. Many issues plagued John and Carolyn's union in the following years to come, but by no means was infidelity one of them.

Carolyn stood up to John and confronted him to an extent his friends felt he needed. Ex-girlfriends of John knew the truth behind his public fronts. He apparently had an explosive temper that wasn't usually mentioned in the media.

Outlets often focused more on his romantic charm, until one February day in Washington Square Park. Carolyn didn't know what to do when she learned she had experienced a miscarriage. She turned to her ex-boyfriend, even though she knew it risked upsetting John. On that day while walking their dog in the park, the National Enquirer caught evidence of John and Carolyn in a heated argument.

Witnesses were shocked. Things turned from bad to worse when the media caught pictures and videos of the couple in a sudden public screaming match. The video captured Carolyn shove John. He reportedly yelled, "You've got my ring, you're not getting my dog" as he grabbed her wrist and tried to yank her engagement ring off her finger while she held the dog's leash.

John sat down on the curb, and Carolyn knelt next to him. They left the park hand-in-hand soon after. This was all a headache for George's production, but Carolyn, unfortunately, felt most of the wrath. In the video, she looked like the aggressor, which gave her a bad wrap. Friends knew John had a temper, but the public didn't. No matter what happened in their argument, to the public, it looked like Carolyn had brought out the worst in America's young prince.

It seemed that she had changed him, which turned many people against her. In the end, it seemed she was more upset with herself than whatever they had argued about. Carolyn began to struggle. Her life was now under the watchful eye of the world. Paparazzi waited outside of her building, called her names, and taunted her endlessly to try to get a rise out of her. John put on dresses and wings to make a joke of it all but failed to realize how much it took a toll on Carolyn.

She wasn't even convinced that he cared. While John dressed up to play pranks on the paparazzi, he told Carolyn to relax and ignore them. After all, camera flashes and crowds outside his door had always been part of his life.

Carolyn turned to friends of the couple for advice. They told her that she wouldn't win either way and to encourage John to be more sensitive. A rumor that the couple had broken off their engagement after John hit Carolyn in the park spread like wildfire, while TV channels made fun of the situation.

If anything, the couple's myth has intensified since their deaths, with Gone Girl director David Fincher reportedly instructing actress Rosamund Pike to base her character Amy Dunne on Bessette-Kennedy in the thriller, saying: 'She crafted herself, she re-invented herself, and invented that persona. That's where I began. By Rebecca Cope. Murphy is known for bringing to life some of the biggest and most dramatic events of the last century, previously focussing on the OJ Simpson trial and the assassination of Gianni Versace for his series American Crime Story , as well as the infamous fall-out between Hollywood stars Joan Crawford and Bette Davis in Feud.

George had to be figured out; John's cousin is dying. Maybe Carolyn has to decide how she wants to live her life. That's when the accident happened. It was there that one of the most famous images of the couple was taken.

In one frame he is whispering in her ear, in another he is kissing her. All the questions that dogged them—about their marriage, about her deep distrust of the media, about his future and where it would take them—seem far away. They are a couple at ease and in love, content and relaxed. They fit together. Despite their golden couple status, in the summer of John and Carolyn were at a crossroads.

Does she want to work? Does she want to have kids? Does she want to lead charities? The choices they might have made—and the answers they might have found—were rendered forever unknowable on July John was compulsively busy; in addition to his hands-on role at George , he had numerous Kennedy family obligations. Both John and Carolyn were regularly spotted on the cobblestone streets with their dog Friday. But beneath the surface, John and Carolyn were dealing with a heart-wrenching crisis.

In early , Anthony Radziwill had been diagnosed with a rare sarcoma. Anthony and John were very close. Over the course of his illness, Anthony underwent surgeries, chemotherapy, and experimental treatments; always by his side was his wife Carole, a fellow producer at ABC News whom he married in But by it was becoming clear that Anthony would not recover.

We were all doing our best to keep smiles on our faces. Carolyn too was deeply affected by the ordeal the Radziwills faced. She and Carole had made an immediate connection—each had gone from a teenage job behind the counter at a Caldor department store to marrying royalty, one figuratively, one literally.

John might have turned to work as a welcome distraction, but his professional life was also in something of a crisis. When he launched George in September , with a Herb Ritts cover photo of Cindy Crawford outfitted as George Washington , the magazine had been a hit. Madonna contributed to the first issue, and covers featuring Kate Moss and Barbra Streisand landed with a splash.

The fact that Donald Trump is president proves that what John was saying 20 years ago has come to pass. But the magazine, however prescient, missed its goal of being profitable within three years, and ad rates dropped in later years.

By , John and his collaborators faced difficult choices about the future of their enterprise. Are we going to be better in a big corporation? Is it more of an independent project? Should John find funding and we do it on our own? Kliger, however, disputes the idea that Hachette had stopped believing in George , insisting now that he was working with Kennedy in good faith to keep the magazine alive. We were working on that effectively, and then history cut us short. Kliger says Kennedy canceled a meeting with him that had been scheduled for the afternoon of the day he died, explaining that he was going away for the weekend but that he intended to meet with Kliger in the coming week.

Hanging over John at all times was the question of what, exactly, he would do with his life—and whether he would eventually follow his father and uncles into the family business and seek elected office. Kennedy Jr. And, really, who could blame them? There were, for one thing, the on-paper similarities: like Jackie, Carolyn was Catholic and her parents divorced.

And then there was that look: that smart, minimalist sexiness that instantly made her a gold standard of modern beauty. With a public aloofness that was invariably termed "mystique," Carolyn, as the new Mrs.

Kennedy, had the fashion world clamoring for interviews and covers, scrutinizing her hemlines, and coining such phrases as "throwaway chic" and "effortful effortless. Perhaps the reason that Carolyn never quite achieved Jackie's fashion-icon status was that she never really wanted to. For Carolyn, who was raised in Greenwich, Connecticut, by her schoolteacher mother and orthopedist stepfather, life was simply too much fun for that. And it always had been.