Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy | |
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![]() Bessette-Kennedy in 1999 | |
Born | Carolyn Jeanne Bessette January 7, 1966 White Plains, New York, U.S. |
Died | July 16, 1999 Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, U.S. | (aged 33)
Cause of death | Plane crash |
Alma mater | Boston University |
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Relatives | Kennedy family Bouvier family (by marriage) |
Carolyn Jeanne Bessette-Kennedy (née Bessette; January 7, 1966 – July 16, 1999) was an American publicist for Calvin Klein. After her marriage to John F. Kennedy Jr., Bessette-Kennedy's relationship with her husband and her fashion sense became the subjects of media and paparazzi scrutiny. The couple, along with her older sister Lauren, died in a plane crash off the coast of Martha's Vineyard in 1999.