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I came across this in the February 2003 issue of Harper’s Bazaar. Her wedding was held at Mar-a-Lago.

Narciso Rodrigues profiled by Dana Thomas for the December 1996 issue of US Vogue.

Sharing scans from the December 2007 issue of Harper’s Bazaar featuring the fragrance editorial “Find Your Best Scent.” It’s a fun snapshot of fragrance advice from the late 2000s, with recommendations for what’s right for evenings, work, weekends, and special occasions. It’s interesting to see how fragrances were categorized and marketed for different settings.

What do you think of their recommendations?

From the November 2004 issue of Harper’s Bazaar.

Find Your Perfect Fragrance!

Fragrances aren’t one-size-fits-all. Whether you’re sexy or sweet, bohemian or trendy, choose a perfume that reflects your unique personality and personal style. What’s your fragrance style according to these categories?

Do you agree with the scent recommendation based on the category you associate with the most? This is from the January 2000 issue of Seventeen magazine. This was put together by Laura Kenney, who was an editor at Seventeen.

This is from an old Seventeen magazine from February 2004. Which fragrance category do you fall into, and would you blind-buy any of the scents featured in the chart?

This comment is from Suzanne Eagle, who was Carolyn’s boss from 1992 to 1993. Eagle was the Senior Vice President of Public Relations at Calvin Klein during that period. She replaced Paul Wilmot. The comment appeared under a Liz Lange instagram post, and it caught my attention, so I screenshotted it. So how does an employee “break” their boss? I’ve come across mixed accounts of how Carolyn treated people at Calvin Klein. Some stories describe her as incredibly kind and well-liked, while others, like Suzanne’s, paint a very different picture.

Looking into Suzanne’s role at Calvin Klein, she was responsible for overseeing the company’s public relations efforts across Calvin Klein’s various lines and licensees, including Collection, CK, the launch of the eyewear line, Menswear, shoes, fragrance, underwear, and numerous other branding initiatives. She also served as the chief liaison between Calvin Klein and the press. Her responsibilities included producing fashion shows and overseeing the APLA Hollywood Bowl fundraiser.

We know Carolyn worked on the Menswear collection and assisted with the production of fashion shows also. According to Calvin Klein, she also helped cast the 1993 APLA Hollywood Bowl show alongside Kelly Klein. In 2013, Calvin recalled: “We did a thing once for APLA in Los Angeles, and I think we used hundreds of guys and girls. It was an unbelievable show at the Hollywood Bowl, and they were all people whom Kelly [Klein] and Carolyn Bessette had cast.”

Carolyn also developed a close relationship with Lynn Tesoro, who was the Vice President of Public Relations who presumably reported up to Suzanne who was SVP. Lynn had nothing but positive things to say about Carolyn and remained friendly with her even after they both left Calvin Klein. A former temporary Calvin Klein PR employee, Lorna Neligan, also described Carolyn as a particularly influential figure within the department. Neligan said she worked at Calvin Klein for a year and recalled that “Suzanne Eagle was the Head of PR, but the impressive Carolyn Bessette basically ran the department.” After Suzanne left in 1993, Noona Smith Petersen was hired and they opened the first Calvin Klein European office in Milan, where she was Senior Vice President of International Public Relations. Suzanne’s position seemed to be eliminated. Carolyn and Noona were friendly, and there’s even a photo of her with both Noona and Lynn.

Lorna and Calvin’s comments make Carolyn sound ambitious and highly driven, someone who was eager to advance and quickly established herself as an important figure within the company. However, her influence was disproportionate to her experience. When viewed alongside Suzanne’s comment that Carolyn “broke” her, it takes on a less flattering tone. My impression is that Carolyn may have been very ambitious and understood how to navigate the corporate hierarchy, including knowing whose support mattered. She may have been particularly good at building relationships with people who could help her move up quickly. Of course, this is based on a single comment, and we don’t know exactly what Suzanne meant when she said Carolyn “broke” her.

When taken with other accounts of Carolyn’s influence within Calvin Klein’s PR department, I think it’s an interesting piece of the puzzle. Carolyn was described in the NYT as someone who worked long hours, was demanding, vocal and opinionated. One person who worked at CK told WWD that “She had real street smarts; she knew what was going to be a trend long before anyone else. And she got what she wanted. Even when it came down to casting the shows, she would have screaming fights over model choices. She always won." Another warned that at she had a reputation for paying back. "You don't want to f**k with Carolyn”.

From Once Upon A Time: “Paul Wilmot, who had been with Calvin Klein since 1985, gave notice that he was leaving to join Vogue as director of public relations. He stayed on at Calvin Klein during the transition, but before the arrival of his replacement, Carolyn answered directly to Calvin. “Carolyn was often popping into Calvin’s office from PR, coming in to campaign for her opinion, or she would walk into his office and say, ‘You have to see this person.’” Eventually, a new supervisor was brought in to officially fill Paul’s shoes. She and Carolyn did not mesh. Carolyn had, after all, been functioning as a direct liaison with Calvin. “I felt undermined at many turns,” the former supervisor said. “She once said to me, ‘We think that you think that we don’t like you,’”.

Carolyn photographed with her dog, Friday, and a white cockatoo by Bruce Weber in 1997.

She had done three or four fashion shoots. That Bruce Weber shoot was first done for Joe's Magazine, for Joe McKenna. Joe was close to Carolyn (they met in 1993) and she agreed to do the shoot because the magazine was just for fashion insiders, a trade magazine. When she died, Susan White [the photography director] from Vanity Fair* *knew of this shoot and asked Joe, “Can we look at these pictures?” And it ended up being the bestselling cover of all time.

Link to photograph

Photos were taken on October 19, 1993. Here’s a little about John’s German Shepherd, Sam, who was a rescue that John adopted. John had Sam while he was dating and living with Daryl Hannah. Sam was described as a high-strung dog, and there were some biting incidents.

Rosemarie Terenzio: He brought his demented German shepherd rescue, Sam, to the office every day. Sam would growl and snap, and he bit the intern. He'd go for my lunch, so I'd walk out of the office and let him have it.

Susanna Howe: One time he showed up at work in the afternoon and he had this huge German shepherd named Sam — Sam Shepherd. He was like, "Hey, I got a dog!" And then this dog proceeded to bite everybody. It bit me on the nose. It bit everyone in the park every time he went to the park. It finally had to be put down. He got a new dog and named it Friday.

Zach Haberman: Sam was my desk mate—I had a little closet office. The only people that the dog liked were John and me. And if anybody came by, the conversations were short because that dog was a beast.

Ted Kennedy: He campaigned for me during my 1994 election and always created a stir when he arrived in Massachusetts. Before one of his trips to Boston, John told the campaign he was bringing along a companion, but would need only one hotel room. Interested but discreet, a senior campaign worker picked John up at the airport and prepared to handle any media barrage that might accompany John's arrival with his mystery companion. John landed with the companion, all right - an enormous German shepherd dog named Sam he had rescued from the pound. He loved to talk about the expression on the campaign worker's face and the reaction of the clerk at the Charles Hotel when John and Sam checked in.

Heather Campion: I remember the day John brought his 90-pound, untrained German shepherd, Sam, to a Senior Advisory Board meeting. When the pooch panicked halfway up the IOP’s spiral staircase, John scooped him up and deposited him at the feet of a young staffer, whom the dog promptly bit.

Michael Castner: I was an intern, and Friday replaced Sam, who always loved to corner me in the office and dare me to try to leave unscathed.

In an episode of SATC Season 2, Carrie runs into Big and his girlfriend, Natasha, at a “Hamptons Hoedown”-themed party. Big and Natasha are both dressed in white, while Carrie wore a pink cowboy hat.

On July 29, 1995, John and Carolyn attended a party in the Hamptons hosted by Mickey Schulhof (shown above). The Western-themed hoedown was held in a tent outside East Hampton's Nick & Toni's. Among the guests were Edwin and Caroline Schlossberg, Anthony and Carole Radziwill, Lee Radziwill, Herb Ross, and Christopher Lawford. There were nearly 500 guests at the event. The party featured line dancing and two-stepping, a barbecue pit, hayrides and horses, and a performance by Mary Chapin Carpenter.

Does anyone else see a parallel between John & Carolyn and Natasha & Big here? The Western hoedown-themed party in the Hamptons, the all-white outfits… or was it just a coincidence?

On July 29, 1995, John and Carolyn attended a party in the Hamptons hosted by Mickey Schulhof. The Western-themed hoedown was held in a tent outside East Hampton’s Nick & Toni’s. Among the guests were Edwin and Caroline Schlossberg, Anthony and Carole Radziwill, Lee Radziwill, Herb Ross, and Christopher Lawford.

On January 11, 1998, New York Times reporter Alex Kuczynski wrote an article for the Style section titled “Concierge to the Literary Pack.” In the article, she described Clifford Streit (Michael's former Manager referred to as 'Tad Small' in his book) as “a Zelig-like character who has forged a career out of nurturing the tender egos of some of Manhattan’s beautiful people.” Kuczynski explained that Streit called himself a manager and represented clients such as Candace Bushnell and Michael Bergin. She also noted that "Streit also works with the model Michael Bergin, whom he used to represent full time, in the hopes that he can help sell the screenplay and book proposal Mr. Bergin is writing." Mr. Bergin calls him ''a genius with ideas.''

On April 7, 2004, New York Daily News columnist Lloyd Grove reported that Bergin had said he wrote his book to obtain “closure.” However, Grove also reported that Star magazine had discovered that Bergin had begun working on a screenplay about his relationship with Carolyn more than a year before her death based on a previously unpublished interview with Star where Bergin shared, “She came across the stuff I had written in a notebook. She freaked out! She was really mad at me. That was the last time I saw her.”

These two accounts appear to describe different circumstances surrounding their final meeting. According to the interview with Star, Bergin said that Carolyn discovered his writing and became angry about it during their last encounter. But in his book, he places their final meeting in Seattle at a bed-and-breakfast, a location where he did not keep his personal belongings, meaning Carolyn could not have seen his notebook during the final encounter he describes in the book.

Why was Michael writing about Carolyn more than a year before her death? What book proposal and screenplay was he working on in 1998? And why are all these details absent from Bergin’s book, particularly the account that Carolyn discovered what he had written in a notebook, became angry with him, and that this was the last time he saw her. Thoughts?

I came across this National Enquirer special issue from July 9, 2002. The issue was published just one week before the third anniversary of their deaths, and the cover had the headline "JFK Crash Mystery Solved! New proof it wasn't his fault." Inside, the headline was: "Crash Mystery Solved: Carolyn's Fatal Cell Phone Call."

So even after the NTSB concluded its investigation and determined that the cause was John's failure to maintain control of the aircraft during a descent over water at night as a result of spatial disorientation, Carolyn was still being blamed. It's incredibly disrespectful and disgusting that the tabloids continued to push this narrative even years after the crash. The story basically said that the National Enquirer launched a second probe on the third anniversary of the crash and "unlocked the secrets that led to his death" and said it was Carolyn's fault.

The article said: "In a stunning breakthrough, The ENQUIRER has solved the heartbreaking mystery of the plane crash that killed John F. Kennedy Jr. After publishing numerous exclusives on the American hero's tragic last flight, we launched a second probe on the third anniversary of the disaster and have unlocked the secrets that led to his death. We discovered that right before the crash his wife Carolyn Bessette made a cell phone call that experts believe could have contributed to the accident. The ENQUIRER investigation discovered that a guest at the Hyannis Port home of Ethel Kennedy received a phone call from JFK Jr.'s airplane, informing the party that they were on the way. At 9:36 p.m., Kennedy would have been on approach to Martha's Vineyard, fighting to see the runway in the grip of the sudden and unexpected heavy mist."

... its known that at 9:36 p.m., they were descending toward the ocean at approximately 5,000 feet per minute, not actively making a phone call. Carolyn made a phone call to Carole Radziwill before she got on the plane, not after, and it's all documented in the NTSB. So this whole narrative is BS. I know people on this subreddit don't believe these stories, but this narrative was widespread at the time, and the idea that Carolyn somehow caused the crash kept being perpetuated in different forms over the years, whether it was the nail-polish story, claims that she was delayed, attempts to blame Lauren, or the example above involving the alleged cell-phone call.

David Pecker, John's former business associate from George, became CEO of American Media in 1999, the parent company of the National Enquirer. I wonder how much say Pecker personally had in what the Enquirer published about John and Carolyn.

Someone leaked to New York Magazine (shown above) that John and Carolyn were getting married in September. The clipping above is from the September 23, 1996, issue. I know it was published after their wedding, but the final production, layout, and editing cycle for a specific issue typically wraps up two to three weeks before publication. So when they were putting this issue together, the wedding itself had not yet happened. It seems likely an inside source who knew about the plans and was willing to talk, possibly someone who was angry about not being invited. That could also explain the snarky remark about John and Carolyn being so volatile.

New York Post columnist George Rush wrote in his memoir that “one Sunday in September, news broke that they'd pulled off a media-free wedding on Cumberland Island, Georgia. When we called longtime friends of John for details, they were equally shocked to hear about the nuptials—and hurt that they hadn't been invited. They blamed Carolyn for pulling him away from his old buddies.”

Also, Globe Magazine photographer Russell Turiak said that he was sent to Turkey to look for John and Carolyn on their honeymoon and he found them. He said, “I suppose somebody tipped off Globe to the fact that they were honeymooning in Istanbul. They put me on the next plane, and l'd just arrived at the hotel. I was just looking around when I chanced upon John Jr. at the swimming pool. He recognized me from New York. He gave me a look as if to say, ‘could that be you?’ I ducked back into the hotel, where I met up with John Bell, a British guy who headed up Globe's European bureau. We sat down and discussed strategy. An hour later we caught a real break. We were looking at brochures near the travel agent's office in the lobby, and we saw JFK Jr. He was standing there talking with the agent. They were going over his travel itinerary. So John Bell innocently strolled into the agent's office and overheard their conversation.”…and from that point on, their honeymoon was effectively ruined, which explains the photos of Carolyn crying in the back seat of a taxi on the streets of Istanbul.

What I take from this is that some of John’s longtime friends were not only unaware of the wedding but were genuinely hurt that they hadn’t been invited. It sounds as though they blamed Carolyn for their exclusion, which we know wasn’t the case. John had a say in the guest list and, of his own free will, chose not to invite these “longtime friends” of his. It’s possible that someone from that circle was bitter enough to leak the wedding plans to the magazine. I don’t think the source was likely to have come from Carolyn’s circle. There was also an inside source who leaked to the Globe, a tabloid, that John and Carolyn were specifically staying at the Ciragan Palace Hotel. Christiane Amanpour was the one who arranged their stay at the hotel, and she was among the wedding guests. It seems highly unlikely that she would have been the one to leak their location to a tabloid. In fact, Christiane specifically asked the hotel in advance to protect their privacy and extend every possible courtesy to them. They were even booked under fake names “Mr. and Mrs. Hyannis".

The call was always coming from inside the house. These “friends,” who claimed to have known John for years, apparently didn’t hesitate to turn against him and, in the process, hurt both him and his wife the moment they felt they had been wronged.

I found this article in Women’s Wear Daily (WWD), dated October 3, 1996:

EYE SCOOP

The rumors were circulating far and wide this week that Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy would be taking some kind of "image" job at the House of Cerruti after her honeymoon. But the story seems to be untrue. "God, I would love her to work here," said Rodriguez from his Paris office Wednesday. "But she isn't. I sure asked her, though. And I know she's gotten a lot of other job offers, but I don't think she's going to take any of them."

It's known that Bessette-Kennedy interviewed with Gianni Versace shortly after leaving Calvin Klein earlier this year, but the two didn't "click," according to a source.

…I find it interesting that Carolyn actually interviewed with Gianni. I know John had a good relationship with both Gianni and Donatella, and even visited them when they went to Italy in 1996. Donatella has also said that Gianni and Carolyn got along well, and we know Carolyn attended Gianni’s funeral, so I don’t think the part about them not “clicking” is necessarily accurate. I was more curious about the fact that she went as far as to interview with him in the first place. I thought that was really interesting. What did you guys think?

Val Kilmer and Daryl Hannah dated from 2001 to 2003, I believe, and in his memoir, I’m Your Huckleberry, he wrote the following about Daryl and Jackie’s relationship:

“As best as I could detect, Daryl contained no negativity. Even a man she had dumped, the world's most eligible bachelor - John F. Kennedy Jr.-continued cultivating her company. During the Daryl/John-John courtship, the press went wild because Daryl wouldn't say a word about Jackie. The media manufactured a nasty buzz over a supposed rivalry between Daryl and Jackie. Lies. Daryl and Jackie adored one another. They forged an indelible friendship. Daryl was incapable of describing Jackie's last days without weeping. Jackie asked Daryl to come into her bedroom, sit by her side, and listen to her final stories. Far more than speaking, listening is the ultimate act of Love. “

…This is the first time I’ve read anything about Daryl spending that much time with Jackie before she died. I’m assuming Daryl shared this with Val while they were dating. John’s friends have said basically the complete opposite, that Daryl was keeping John occupied and away from his mother because of her dead dog and was behaving insensitively. This is also the first time I’ve seen any reference to John and Daryl having contact after their breakup. Of course, this all depends on whether Val’s account is accurate and what exactly he meant when he said that “John continued to cultivate her company.” He also seemed to imply that Daryl was the one who ended things with John, rather than the other way around.

I also want to mention that in the March 2002 issue of Glamour Magazine, Daryl said, "It bothers me when it's assumed that [John's mother] didn't like or approve of me. I had a great relationship with her and treasure my memories of her kindness, humor and grace".

Do you think Daryl would’ve shared this information about Jackie with Val Kilmer?

In 1988, Patrick Kennedy ran against John F. “Jack” Skeffington Jr. for the Democratic nomination for Rhode Island House District 9 in Providence. Kennedy, then 21 and a Providence College student, challenged the five-term incumbent. He defeated Skeffington in the September 14, 1988 Democratic primary.

Skeffington, still in the funeral business, says that Kennedys flooded the polls in two-hour shifts with Polaroid cameras, offering prospective voters a chance to get their picture taken with a real-life Camelot heir. The only hint of embarrassment came from John Jr. “He was a perfect gentleman,” says Skeffington. “He said, ‘I hope you realize that I don’t want to be here, I don’t like this, but you understand it’s my cousin and I was asked to do it. I don’t think it’s fair.'”

When John Jr., then People’s “sexiest man alive,” showed up at the polls, Skeffington’s female campaign staffers lined up to get their pictures taken with him. Skeffington said, ‘Well jeez, at least take my [campaign] buttons off”.

I just wanted to share this clip to show how much people of all ages truly loved John. The older gentleman looked absolutely overjoyed, and John handled it all so well. He was always there to help his family campaign, but it was just one more thing added to the already huge list of responsibilities he carried. His close friend, Robert Littell, recalled that “John carried the schedule of two people most of his life. He got at least twice as much mail, twice as many phone calls, and three times as much unsolicited advice as the average busy person. There was always something going on, whether it was a Kennedy Library event or a cousin's campaign or a charitable obligation. It was a combination of energy and sense of duty that kept him going, though every once in a while he would be overwhelmed by all that was asked of him.“

Clip from a documentary called Taking on the Kennedys

These photographs were taken by photographer and artist Robert A. Ripps, who has lived and worked on North Moore Street in Tribeca since 1988, where he raised his two sons. The photographs were shared with the Tribeca Citizen in 2021, as part of its commemoration of the 20th anniversary of 9/11.

Robert shared these photographs along with his recollection of September 11, images of the neighborhood in the days that followed, and photographs taken nearly two months later. Robert recalled: “The morning of September 11th was cloudless, with a touch of fall in the air. That morning I was leaving my building when I saw the first plane fly nearly overhead. As it flashed by, I thought to myself, ‘It’s going to crash,’ as I had never seen a plane that low right over Manhattan (although at the time I thought it was just a small plane).

Within a few seconds, I heard a huge boom. A few seconds later, I reached the corner of North Moore and Hudson Streets, looked south and saw the airplane-shaped hole in the North Tower, and what looked like a million pieces of paper fluttering in the air. Instinctively, I pulled out my small point-and-shoot film camera and started taking pictures as I walked south along Hudson.

After several minutes, as I continued my walk across Franklin Street toward the subway to resume my journey, I heard a second loud boom. As soon as I got to Varick Street, I could see the second tower was on fire. I, like everyone else on the street, assumed somehow the North Tower had ignited an explosion in the South Tower, but pretty soon I found out it had been hit by a second plane from the south side.

I took some more pictures of both towers from around Finn Square, then ended up returning home instead of taking the subway. After watching the towers fall on TV, as well as learning the fate of the other two aircraft, I noticed people were lining up across the street to volunteer to help look for survivors. I went outside and joined the queue.
They passed around a clipboard where you jotted your name and an emergency contact, in case something happened to you. They only ended up letting people with medical or ironworking experience head down to Ground Zero.

We stood there all afternoon, until around 5:20 p.m. I watched a group of National Guard troops march in step down Greenwich toward Ground Zero. Someone in authority decided we should move across Greenwich and line up outside of 80 N. Moore instead. As we casually crossed Greenwich Street, I heard a chorus of shouts and a thunderous roar. I looked down Greenwich, saw the Guard members had changed direction and broken rank, and were now running up Greenwich toward us as 7 World Trade collapsed—literally melted—behind them into the street, along with a wave of dust. We ran the rest of the way across toward 80 N. Moore, although really we were in no danger. But of course, on that day, anything was possible.

On September 26th, I snuck up to the roof of a friend’s apartment building that overlooked Ground Zero, to see the progress. At the time, photographers were being threatened with arrest for taking pictures without permission, under the pretense of the area being a crime scene. Regardless, I felt I needed to somehow document what the remains of the towers looked like, for myself. And I suppose, for posterity. I later returned to the same location around November 18th. By then, much of the remains of the towers had been cleared to below street level and the fires were largely extinguished.

John, Carolyn and Lauren did not live to see this day. In his book, Robert Littell reflected: “I thought of John a lot when the Twin Towers fell, wishing he were there to talk to and knowing how much he’d have been hurt by the attack on his home. It was the biggest thing in my adult life that I didn’t share with him.”

Twenty-five years later, we remember those whose lives were taken, the heroes who gave everything, and the families, friends, and communities forever changed by that day. May all who were lost rest in peace. We remember. We honor. We will never forget. 🇺🇸🕊️🗽

Link to Tribeca Citizen article

Guy Clark said in an interview that shortly after Carolyn died, after her body was recovered, he was visited by a senior editor from the National Enquirer named Richard. Richard showed Guy the letters he had sent to Carolyn and essentially told him, “I just want you to know we’re going to press with your love affair with Carolyn Bessette.”

He had all of Guy’s letters in a thick file, and they had been faxed directly from the apartment. That means someone was inside John and Carolyn’s apartment, going through Carolyn’s personal belongings, recognized the potential value of the letters, and faxed them straight to the National Enquirer.

Who could have been that callous and morally bankrupt? I compiled a list of people who were known to have been at their apartment after the crash. This isn’t a complete list, but it includes the names Rosemarie Terenzio has mentioned. Who do you think could have been the person responsible?

Rosemarie Terenzio
Jessica Weinstein (Carolyn's friend)
Lisa Bessette
Caroline Kennedy
Ann Freeman
Dr. Richard Freeman
Carole Radziwill
Gordon Henderson (Carolyn's friend)
Danny Pfeffer (Carolyn's friend)
Matt Berman
Brian Steel (John's friend)
Ed Hill (John's friend)
Kevin Hynes (John's friend)
Pat Manocchia (John's friend)
Efigenio Pinheiro
Marta Sgubin

I don’t think any of Carolyn’s friends or family—or Rosemarie Terenzio, Matt Berman, Efigenio, or Marta Sgubin—would have done something like that. My guess would be one of John’s friends, possibly Ed Hill or Kevin Hynes. Rosemarie said that Ed Hill helped her pack up John’s belongings. He was John’s friend from his Andover days, and Ed said that Rosemarie called him and insisted that he come to the apartment to help her. Ed didn’t seem particularly fond of Carolyn and had quite a bit to say about her in one book. It’s possible that he might have convinced himself he was doing his deceased friend a favor by going through Carolyn’s personal letters one by one and sending them to the National Enquirer as a way of “avenging” John. Rosemarie mentioned that there was a fax machine at the back of the apartment, which would have made it possible for someone there to fax the letters directly to the National Enquirer discreetly.

Kevin Hynes has also publicly mentioned that he raced to the apartment the day after the plane crash to dispose of a stash of John’s pot that was in the refrigerator, as well as Carolyn’s prescription medications, before their families arrived. Again, this is only my guess, and I have no evidence that either Ed or Kevin actually did anything with Carolyn’s letters. But it raises the question: why were some people so cruel to her, even in the immediate aftermath of her death? What exactly would someone have been trying to accomplish by going through her private letters and sending them to the National Enquirer? Whoever it was probably thought they ate down and hit a jackpot but all the effort and it turned out the letters were from her older gay bestie.

I’m also curious about what happened to all of her other private letters and notes, since Guy said she kept everything. I really hope her family took them and kept them or they were destroyed.

Found this old listing on WorthPoint. It’s an original personal check signed by Carolyn and dated October 6, 1998. It was made payable to Cartier Inc., and drawn on a Citibank account jointly held by Carolyn and John. The check is for $378.88. She had such a nice signature.

Edit: This check turned out to be for the matching 18K gold toe rings that Carolyn purchased for herself and Carole. Guy Clark shared the receipt for the purchase, dated August 3, 1998, showing the same amount of $378.88.

Link to WorthPoint Listing