John F. Kennedy Jr.

Being the son of the much-loved US President John F. Kennedy and belonging to the illustrious Kennedy business and political family, he was one of the most eligible bachelors in the United States in his time. As a result, he was rumoured to have been romantically involved with a number of famous women.

Among his confirmed romantic relationships were with actresses Daryl Hannah, Brooke Shields, Christina Haag, and Sarah Jessica Parker. He was also romantically involved with supermodel Cindy Crawford and his Brown University fellow student, Sally Munro.

He met Carolyn Jeanne Bessett, a publicist for designer Calvin Klein, in 1992 when he was in a relationship with actress Daryl Hannah. He started dating Bessett in 1994 and she moved into his apartment in Tribeca area of New York City in 1995. On September 21, 1996, after living together for a year, he married Bessett in a private ceremony.

He was born on November 25, 1960, at Washington D.C., USA, in the Georgetown University Hospital. His father, John F. Kennedy, was the President of the United States of America and his mother, Jacqueline Kennedy, was the First Lady of the United States of America. He had one older sister name Caroline.

He spent the first three years of his life in the White House. His father was assassinated when he was three years old, in 1963.

In 1968, after the assassination of his uncle Robert Kennedy, his mother took him and his sister out of the United States. She married Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis and moved with her children to his private island of Skorpios off the coast of Greece.

He was educated in private schools. He studied in St David’s School and Collegiate School in New York City. He completed his High School from Phillips Academy Andover in Andover, Massachusetts.

After graduating from High School, he enrolled in the Ivy League Brown University. In university he co-founded a student discussion group that focused on contemporary international and political issues. He graduated from Brown in 1983 with an A.B. degree, majoring in American Studies.

He liked acting and started acting in plays during his undergraduate days in Brown University. He appeared in student productions of famous plays like ‘In The Boom Boom Room’, the prison drama ‘Short Eyes’, and others.

On August 4, 1985, he made his acting debut in New York to an invitation only audience at the 75-seater Irish Theater on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City. The play in which he acted was titled ‘Winners’ and was directed by his Brown University fellow alumnus, Robin Saex. His co-star in the play was Christina Haag who attended Brown University with him. His performance in this play was well received and Nye Heron, Executive Director of the Irish Arts Center, said that he was one of the best young actors he had seen in years. He expressed a desire to pursue a full-time career in acting to his mother who disapproved of it.

He started working for the New York City Office of Business Development in 1984. He rose through the ranks and served as deputy director of the 42nd Street Development Corporation in 1986.

In 1988, he started working as a summer associate in the law firm ‘Manatt, Phelps, Rothenberg & Phillips’, in Los Angeles. One of the partners of this firm, Charlie Manatt, was friend and roommate of his uncle Ted Kennedy at law school. The law firm had close ties to the Democratic Party.

He became head of the nonprofit group ‘Reaching Up’ in 1989. The group worked with workers who helped people with disabilities to get educational and other opportunities.

His popular nickname among the media and the public was ‘John-John’.

He died just eighteen months after the death of his cousin, Michael Kennedy, in a skiing accident in Colorado.

He was rumoured to have been in a relationship with popular singer Madonna though it was never confirmed.