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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did Carolyn have any female friends who were not John's friends? You never hear anything about them. I've only heard of one gay male friend, when she first started dating John.[/quote]

I don't think you would commonly hear of non-famous friends, especially in the days before social media.  She was very close to Carole Radziwill, who was married to Anthony, John's terminally ill cousin.  John and Carolyn would have helped Carole in the aftermath of Anthony's death, and instead Carole and Anthony attended their memorial service weeks before he died.   That always stuck with me- how John ended up dying before his cousin.[/quote]

Carole's book, What Remains, is really good if you have not read it. It's respectful and very loving. She presents Carolyn as a warm and caring person who consistently showed up for Anthony when he was sick.[/quote]

I think Carolyn was a complicated person, and certainly flawed, but there are lots of stories about her warmth and kindness too.[/quote]

I agree.  All these outlandish stories about her don't seem to be from her inner circle.  I don't know what to make of that CK model who claims they had an affair.  He honestly seems unhinged.  The truth is probably that she wasn't perfect but she wasn't this caricature that the darker anecdotes suggest.  I'm sure many things were exaggerated.[/quote]

She seems relatively normal to me and well liked from interviews of people who worked with her at Calvin Klein (including Klein and Rodriquez), went to college with her, and Carole. Who is perfect? Everyone is multidimensional.Personally, I would never be able to marry someone famous like Kennedy and all that baggage, the press, the intense family expectations, all of it. I would hate it. I suspect she came to hate it too.[/quote]

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