Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy
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| Born |
Carolyn Jeanne Bessette January 7, 1966 White Plains, New York, U.S. |
| Died | July 16, 1999 (aged 33) Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Martha's Vineyard |
| Cause of death | Plane crash |
| Education | Juniper Hill Elementary School Greenwich High School St. Mary's High School |
| Alma mater | Boston University |
| Occupation | Calvin Klein saleswoman, publicist |
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) |
| Spouse(s) | John F. Kennedy Jr. (m. 1996) |
Carolyn Jeanne Bessette-Kennedy (January 7, 1966 – July 16, 1999) was a publicist for Calvin Klein and the wife of John F. Kennedy Jr., the son of President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Upon her marriage, Bessette-Kennedy's relationship with her husband and her fashion sense became the subject of intense media scrutiny, drawing comparisons to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
The couple, along with Bessette-Kennedy's older sister Lauren, died in a plane crash off the coast of Martha's Vineyard in July 1999.
Bessette was born in White Plains, Westchester County, New York, the youngest child of William J. Bessette, a cabinet maker, and Ann Messina Freeman, an academic administrator in the New York City public school system. She had two older sisters, twins Lauren and Lisa. Her parents divorced when she was very young. Her mother later remarried to Richard Freeman, an orthopedic surgeon, and moved to Old Greenwich, Connecticut, while Bessette's father stayed in White Plains. Bessette attended Juniper Hill Elementary School, where art teacher Linda Bemis recalled her as a shy but ordinary child. At Juniper Hill, her mother was a substitute teacher.
Raised in a Roman Catholic household, Bessette later attended St. Mary's High School. At St. Mary's, Bessette was voted by her classmates to be the "Ultimate Beautiful Person". During her high school experience, Bessette was described as being part of the "in crowd", and having attended "all the right parties". Bessette had initially started high school at Greenwich High School, but her parents withdrew her from the school for not taking her studies seriously.
After graduating from high school in 1983, Bessette then went on to study at Boston University School of Education. While there, she dated John Cullen, a fellow student who would later play professional hockey in the NHL. While in Boston, Bessette briefly attempted to have a modelling career, even going so far as to hire a professional photographer to take pictures for her portfolio. While her modelling career did not prove to be profitable, she managed to appear on the cover of Boston University's calendar "The Girls of B.U."
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