Calvin Klein's ex-wife Kelly Klein remembered the 'last day' she saw Carolyn Bessette before her and husband John F. Kennedy Jr.'s tragic death nearly three decades ago.
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Kelly Reflects on Last Day with Carolyn Bessette
Calvin Klein's ex-wife Kelly Klein remembered the 'last day' she saw Carolyn Bessette before her and husband John F. Kennedy Jr.'s tragic death nearly three dec...
Kelly became close friends and colleagues with Bessette during the late icon's nearly eight years working for the luxury label during the late 1980s to the mid-1990s.
Bessette famously served as a Calvin Klein sales associate before rising the ranks at the brand's headquarters as a fashion publicist who catered to VIP clients.
Three years after Bessette left the company in 1996 amid her highly publicized romance with JFK Jr., the married couple died in a plane crash while en route to a Kennedy family wedding on July 16, 1999. Bessette was 33 and Kennedy was 38.
Ahead of the 27th anniversary of their untimely deaths, Kelly took to Instagram on Wednesday to remember the 'elegant' Bessette, who she said is 'greatly missed.'
In the post, Klein's wife of 20 years revealed that she saw Bessette for the last time just one day before the 1999 tragedy that shocked the world.
Calvin Klein's ex-wife Kelly Klein recalled the 'last day' she saw the late Carolyn Bessette before her and husband John F. Kennedy Jr.'s tragic death; Bessette and Kennedy seen in 1997
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Kelly (seen with Klein in 2025) became close friends and colleagues with Bessette during the late icon's nearly eight years working for the luxury label during the late 1980s to the mid-1990s
'I didn't know today would have been the last day I saw you!' Kelly began. 'If you only knew what was going on down here!'
Kelly, writing directly to her late friend, marveled at how Bessette has 'influenced so many of our young generation in only the most positive ways.'
Ahead of the 27th anniversary of their untimely deaths, Kelly took to Instagram on Wednesday to remember the 'elegant' Bessette, who she said is 'greatly missed'
In the post, Klein's wife of 20 years revealed that she saw Bessette for the last time just one day before the 1999 tragedy that shocked the world; Bessette (L) and Klein (R) seen in 1994
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Kelly, writing directly to her late friend, marveled at how Bessette has 'influenced so many of our young generation in only the most positive ways'; Bessette seen in March 1999
On July 16, 2020, Kelly honored the 21st anniversary of the plane crash that claimed the lives of both Bessette and JFK Jr. on Instagram.
She posted a black and white throwback photo of herself and Bessette smiling with their arms wrapped around one another.
Three years after Bessette left the company in 1996 amid her highly publicized romance with JFK Jr., the married couple died in a plane crash while en route to a Kennedy family wedding on July 16, 1999. Bessette was 33 and Kennedy was 38; seen in May 1997
Bessette's rise at Calvin Klein as well as her and JFK Jr.'s doomed relationship is depicted in the 2026 Hulu series Love Story, which was released earlier this year and sees actors Sarah Pidgeon an Paul Anthony Kelly play the late couple
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'The guy knows nothing about what he's talking about and he's making a ton of money on a grotesque display of someone else's life.'
Schlossberg has called on Murphy to donate his proceeds from the show to 'some of the causes that John championed throughout his life' or 'to the JFK Library to help keep President Kennedy's memory alive'.
And he has taken the producer to task over not following through, saying: 'You're making millions off John, making a public spectacle of it but won't contribute any of your riches to the causes he championed, or the legacy of public service he represented.'
Murphy hit back by claiming that Schlossberg didn't have a right to be cross because he had been only six years old when his uncle's tragic death captivated the nation, saying it was an 'odd choice to be mad about your relative that you really don't remember.'
But Schlossberg quickly rebutted that notion, taking to Instagram to respond: 'Hey @ryanmurphyproductions: My earliest memories are of John calling me Jackolatern and 'the nudist,' picking me up from school, his Pontiac convertible.
'I remember being the ring bearer at his wedding and the day he died. I remember Wyclef [Jean] singing at his funeral.
'More memories are passed down from stories — like the time he locked himself out of a car in an intersection and asked the guy screaming at him if he could borrow a golf club to smash the window to get the keys, and then did it.'
