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June 29, 2025 
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Jackie Kennedy reportedly had something to say to her husband about his rumored relationship with Marilyn Monroe.
According to author J. Randy Taraborrelli, who penned JFK: Public, Private, Secret, Jackie once told President John F. Kennedy of Monroe, This ones different Jack. This one worries me.
Thats from somebody who was right there in the White House who overheard that conversation, the author told People in a conversation published Saturday, June 28. It was reported to me 25 years ago, when I was writing an earlier book, Jackie, Ethel and Joan.
She [Jackie] didnt know the nature of the relationship but knew him well enough to suspect something was going on. Whats really important is her use of the language: This ones different, suggesting very strongly she was okay with the other [women] but this one was different, Taraborrelli added.
In March of 1998, John F. Kennedy Jr. and his wife, Carolyn Bessette, attended the wedding of friends Betsy Reisinger and Kenan Siegel in Miami. Photos from the event show the couple wrapped in a tight embrace, with Bessettes arms around Kennedys neck, her head tilted back as she laughs with abandon. Carolyn and John [&] The author also claimed that the Kennedys spoke of Monroe ahead of the presidents birthday celebration on May 19, 1962 at Madison Square Garden, where the actress famously sang a seductive rendition of Happy Birthday.
She didnt want anything to do with it. She had a barbecue with the Auchinclosses [her mother Janet Auchincloss and stepfather, Hugh Auchincloss] rather than go because she did not want to endorse it, Taraborrelli explained of the event.
Despite that, the author insisted I dont have enough evidence to support rumors that JFK and Monroe had a long-term affair.
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The author also said that Jackie was deeply impacted by Monroes death on August 4 of the same year. Whats interesting is she didnt know if JFK was involved with her or not. She just assumed it. What I do know is after Marilyn died, Jackie was bereft, he said.
To back up the claim, he shared a conversation allegedly told to him by a friend of Jackies half-sister, Janet Rutherford Auchincloss. According to the author, Janet told Jackie and her mother, The world destroyed �Marilyn.
No, Janet, Jackie replied. The world didnt destroy Marilyn. The world built Marilyn up. It was the men in her life who destroyed Marilyn.
The author also claims in the book that JFK had an affair with a flight attendant one month after Jackie gave birth to their stillborn daughter. Taraborrelli used details from Joan Lundbergs unpublished memoir to substantiate the story.
The president and Lundberg reportedly met on August 19, 1956, at a bar in Santa Monica, though nothing happened between the pair that night, and Jackie gave birth to their stillborn daughter Arabella days later. The president promised to return, and he and Lundberg attended a dinner party in September.
According to what Joan later recalled, Jack admitted that he and Jackie were the product of an arranged marriage and, as such marriages go, he said it was fine. Not great, but OK, the author claimed.
A new book about late President John F. Kennedy details his affair with a flight attendant months after wife Jackie Kennedy Onassis gave birth to their stillborn daughter. People published an excerpt on Wednesday, June 25, from the upcoming biography JFK: Public, Private, Secret by J. Randy Taraborrelli, which includes details from flight attendant Joan [&] He also wrote that JFK told his wife about his affairs.
He explained that Joan was someone hed met in Los Angeles, the author added. Joan is vague in her unpublished memoir about how much Jack told Jackie, only that he told her pretty much everything.
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