John F Jr Kennedy

Before Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy was fashionably thin and shining blond and living in a TriBeCa loft with John Kennedy, she was fuller and darker-haired and a raging party girl. She prowled the Manhattan clubs until 4 a.m., easily gliding by the velvet ropes that corralled the night livestock. That's what the beautiful girls did. And it was work, sort of. Sometimes she saw fresh faces she could dress up in Calvin Klein, her employer at the time. She smoked Parliaments. She drank vodka martinis.

George, the political magazine founded by John F. Kennedy Jr., will cease publication in March, the publisher said. The magazine has a circulation of 500,000, but couldn't attract enough advertising to stay afloat, said French conglomerate Lagardere's magazine publishing arm, Hachette Filipacchi Magazines. "The recent softening of the ad market has only compounded George's situation," Hachette Chief Executive Jack Kliger said. About 40 staff members will be affected by the shutdown.

In his 38 years of life, John F. Kennedy Jr. was the target of at least three kidnapping threats--the latest just four years before he died in a plane crash, according to FBI records released Monday. The first one, confirmed by the U.S. government, occurred more than two decades ago when Kennedy was still in elementary school. The 162 newly released records, which Associated Press obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, contain sketchy details about two more threats.

President Kennedy died when his son John F. Kennedy Jr. was just a toddler, but a bronze statue will picture an imaginary moment the two might have shared as adults. The $300,000 statue will depict the two men walking along a beach, with Kennedy's arm around his son's shoulder. The Barnstable Town Council approved a request by the Hyannis Area Chamber of Commerce to place the statue on town land, perhaps as soon as the fall of 2001.

Two flatbed trucks under police escort transported wreckage from the John F. Kennedy Jr. plane crash to a Coast Guard hangar here, where it will be examined in detail by federal investigators. Kennedy's single-engine Piper Saratoga, described as "twisted metal," arrived late Friday night, a Coast Guard official said.

OK, now that we've wrung out our tear-drenched hankies and are ready to get on with our lives, we think we can stand to talk about the details of the wed . . . wed . . . wedding. It's still a little tough to say the word. So, bring on the questions. Question: Was the wedding of John Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Camelot-like? Answer: Hardly! The super-secret wedding took place Saturday evening on Cumberland Island off the coast of Georgia.

To the accompaniment of gospel and reggae music, and to the words of Shakespeare and Irish bards, family and friends bade a final farewell Friday to John F. Kennedy Jr., remembered by his uncle as a young man of wit and grace who, like his father, "had every gift but length of years." Continuing a sad tradition that has seen him take charge through decades of family tragedy, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.

Rescuers desperately scoured the ocean off Martha's Vineyard into the night Saturday in the fading hope that they might find John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife and her sister after the single-engine plane he was piloting disappeared and plunged into the Atlantic en route here. The son of the slain 35th president of the United States, a relatively inexperienced pilot, had planned to stop briefly on the island before heading on to nearby Cape Cod for a family wedding scheduled for Saturday.

Search crews frantically looking for survivors or significant wreckage of the small plane carrying John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife and his sister-in-law found neither for a second day Sunday, and gave up on finding any of the three alive.

The search for the remains of John F. Kennedy Jr. in the waters off Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was more aggressive and sophisticated than efforts usually launched for average citizens. But federal officials said that--at least in the early days when the focus was on finding survivors from Kennedy's missing plane--the mission essentially was like thousands of others. "Until just a couple of days ago . . .

John F. Kennedy Jr. turned down an offer by one of his flying instructors to accompany him the night of his doomed flight to Martha's Vineyard, saying that he "wanted to do it alone," federal investigators reported Thursday.

Federal investigators have concluded pilot error caused the plane crash that killed John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife and his sister-in-law, NBC News reported Thursday. The National Transportation Safety Board is finalizing its report, which is expected to be released in the next several weeks, according to the network.

In his 38 years of life, John F. Kennedy Jr. was the target of at least three kidnapping threats--the latest just four years before he died in a plane crash, according to FBI records released Monday. The first one, confirmed by the U.S. government, occurred more than two decades ago when Kennedy was still in elementary school. The 162 newly released records, which Associated Press obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, contain sketchy details about two more threats.

The late John F. Kennedy Jr. left his personal effects to the children of his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, according to his will, made public Friday. The will, signed by Kennedy on Dec. 19, 1997, states the value of his property as "greater than $1 million." Kennedy's wealth has been estimated at $50 million. Kennedy, his wife, Carolyn Bessette, and her sister Lauren Bessette were killed when the plane he was piloting plunged into the Atlantic Ocean July 16.

After months of speculation, Hachette Filipacchi Magazines said Friday that it is committed to keeping John F. Kennedy Jr.'s George magazine alive, if it can acquire majority ownership of the struggling political publication. George is a joint venture of the magazine chain and Random Ventures, Kennedy's company. In recent weeks, representatives of the Kennedy family and the publishing firm have been discussing the magazine's future.

President Clinton began another day of vacation and politics in East Hampton, N.Y., by helping to commemorate the late John F. Kennedy Jr. The president and his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, visited the home of international venture capitalist Alan Patricof, where they posed for pictures for the October issue of George magazine, the magazine Kennedy founded. Kennedy was killed last month with his wife and her sister in a plane crash.

In so many ways, she stands apart. Three years older, almost to the day, than the brother who perished last weekend when his plane crashed into the sea off Martha's Vineyard, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg is--by careful design and assiduous practice--the least-known member of her immediate family. While her brother seemed to move smoothly past the curiosity and the cameras that followed him, she is panther-like in her determination to dwell outside the spotlight.

The late John F. Kennedy Jr. left his personal effects to the children of his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, according to his will, made public Friday. The will, signed by Kennedy on Dec. 19, 1997, states the value of his property as "greater than $1 million." Kennedy's wealth has been estimated at $50 million. Kennedy, his wife, Carolyn Bessette, and her sister Lauren Bessette were killed when the plane he was piloting plunged into the Atlantic Ocean July 16.

A curious subject came up last week when it was suggested that ABC-TV's Diane Sawyer was wrong to ask for a couple of days off work after the plane crash of family friend John F. Kennedy Jr., rather than reporting the story for the people who pay her. Any criticism of Sawyer on this score is unjustified, for more than one reason. She was hardly the only ABC newsperson able to do this story. Peter and Babs and others there could handle it.

The wreckage of John F. Kennedy Jr.'s single-engine aircraft shows no evidence so far that it experienced a fire, in-flight breakup or engine problems before it crashed into the Atlantic Ocean and killed Kennedy and two others July 16, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a statement issued Friday.