Jackie Kennedy Allegedly Confronted JFK About Rumored Marilyn Monroe Affair
Jackie Kennedy reportedly had something to say to her husband about his rumored relationship with Marilyn Monroe.
According to author J. Randy Taraborrelli, who penned JFK: Public, Private, Secret, Jackie once told President John F. Kennedy of Monroe, “This one’s different Jack. This one worries me.”
“That’s from somebody who was right there in the White House who overheard that conversation,” the author told People in a conversation published Saturday, June 28. “It was reported to me 25 years ago, when I was writing an earlier book, Jackie, Ethel and Joan.”
“She [Jackie] didn’t know the nature of the relationship but knew him well enough to suspect something was going on. What’s really important is her use of the language: ‘This one’s different,’ suggesting very strongly she was okay with the other [women] but this one was different,” Taraborrelli added.
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The author also claimed that the Kennedys spoke of Monroe ahead of the president’s birthday celebration on May 19, 1962 at Madison Square Garden, where the actress famously sang a seductive rendition of Happy Birthday.
“She didn’t want anything to do with it. She had a barbecue with the Auchinclosses [her mother Janet Auchincloss and stepfather, Hugh Auchincloss] rather than go because she did not want to endorse it,” Taraborrelli explained of the event.
Despite that, the author insisted “I don’t have enough evidence to support” rumors that JFK and Monroe had a long-term affair.
The author also said that Jackie was deeply impacted by Monroe’s death on August 4 of the same year. “What’s interesting is she didn’t know if JFK was involved with her or not. She just assumed it. What I do know is after Marilyn died, Jackie was bereft,” he said.
To back up the claim, he shared a conversation allegedly told to him by a friend of Jackie’s half-sister, Janet Rutherford Auchincloss. According to the author, Janet told Jackie and her mother, “The world destroyed Marilyn.”
“No, Janet,” Jackie replied. “The world didn’t destroy Marilyn. The world built Marilyn up. It was the men in her life who destroyed Marilyn.”
The author also claims in the book that JFK had an affair with a flight attendant one month after Jackie gave birth to their stillborn daughter. Taraborrelli used details from Joan Lundberg’s unpublished memoir to substantiate the story.
The president and Lundberg reportedly met on August 19, 1956, at a bar in Santa Monica, though nothing happened between the pair that night, and Jackie gave birth to their stillborn daughter Arabella days later. The president promised to return, and he and Lundberg attended a “dinner party” in September.
“According to what Joan later recalled, Jack admitted that he and Jackie were the product of ‘an arranged marriage’ and, as such marriages go, he said it was ‘fine. Not great, but OK,’” the author claimed.
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He also wrote that JFK told his wife about his affairs.
“He explained that Joan was someone he’d met in Los Angeles,” the author added. “Joan is vague in her unpublished memoir about how much Jack told Jackie, only that he told her pretty much everything.”
Jackie Kennedy reportedly had something to say to her husband about his rumored relationship with Marilyn Monroe. According to author J. Randy Taraborrelli, who penned JFK: Public, Private, Secret, Jackie once told President John F. Kennedy of Monroe, “This one’s different Jack. This one worries me.” “That’s from somebody who was right there in the
