A former mistress of John F. Kennedy Jr. must need cash, because she’s blabbing to the National Enquirer about their years-long passionate affair. She’s also writing a tell-all memoir about their relationship. While the details are totally juicy, at the end of day, the guy and his wife have been dead ten years. Do we need to know this? No, of course not. But it still makes for a good read.

More than a decade after the tragic death of John F. Kennedy Jr., his secret mistress is ripping the lid off their passionate love affair – and revealing for the first time how the Prince of Camelot cheated on his wife Carolyn!

“John told me he was considering divorce and was seeing a marriage counselor,” beautiful blond Sybill Hill, now 44, told the Enquirer in a bombshell world-exclusive interview.

“He said he felt guilty for what he had done. We both knew it was wrong, but we couldn’t help ourselves.”

The love story between Sybill and the married son of President John F. Kennedy started in 1991 – and lasted until he perished in the July 16, 1999 plane crash that also claimed the lives of his wife and her sister Lauren Bessette.

The Enquirer first identified Sybill as the woman John cheated with during his failing marriage in our Jan. 18, 2000 issue.

At the time, Sybill – a single mom and a successful artist in Aspen, Colo. – would only tell the Enquirer: “John was very unhappy in his marriage.”

But now she confirms that she was the woman John turned to for comfort as his marriage crumbled. And in an amazingly candid interview, Sybill tells the Enquirer how a chance meeting in Manhattan led to years of secret dates and sizzling sex.

“I met John Kennedy on Jan. 6, 1991, at the Moondance Diner on 6th Avenue,” she recalled.

“I walked in with a boyfriend when a gorgeous-looking man in a baseball cap pointed out a vacant table. I remember thinking ‘He looks just like John Kennedy Jr.!’ We were across the restaurant but we couldn’t stop staring at each other.

“When my date went to the bathroom, I went up to him and we chatted. Before my date came back, John wrote something on a piece of paper and handed it to me. He blushed when the waitress told him, ‘That’s your check, I need that.’ He found another piece of paper, wrote ‘John’ on it and a phone number.”

A week later, Sybill, a willowy look-a-like for Kennedy’s wife – called him.

…”He tried to take me to out-of-the-way places for our dates, but once we went to a club in Harlem where everyone wanted to buy him a drink and take a picture with him.”

Sybill even met John’s fiercely protective big sister, Caroline.

“John invited me to join him at a restaurant for a family dinner for his cousin Bobby Shriver,” recalled Sybill, who is writing a book titled “White Horses” that will include details about the couple’s love affair.

“I sat next to Caroline, but she wasn’t very friendly, giving me a very cold look. It was obvious she was wondering if this girl was good enough for her little brother.”

After a month of dating, the two went to bed together for the first time.

“The sex was breathtakingly wonderful,” Sybill recalled. “But I was surprised that John didn’t seem used to the kind of wild sex that I enjoyed. He loved that about me. He’d say, ‘You’re so uninhibited, so adventurous.’”

“I remember the first time I woke up in his bed, looking at photographs of his parents, President Kennedy and his wife Jackie. It was so surreal.

“John liked to paint, and our painting sessions often turned into sex sessions. Once, I was pleasuring him as he did a finger painting. I still have the painting.

Sybill also reveals that Kennedy never used protection during sex.

“That was fine with me,” she divulged. “I would have loved to have had John’s baby. But it never happened.”

…After the news broke that he was considering marrying Carolyn Bessette, a publicist for Calvin Klein, Kennedy dropped by to see her, Sybill said.

“We made love, but I could see he was conflicted. I put my hand over John’s heart and said, ‘You have to follow your heart.’ He dropped his head and said simply, ‘I’m sorry.’ I knew he was leaving me for Carolyn,” she said.

Devastated by Kennedy’s marriage, Sybill moved to Colorado, but the two stayed in touch.

“I’d phone John’s office and he’d take my call,” she said. “I sent him a note congratulating him on his magazine ‘George’ and telling him I was managing a boutique in Aspen called Manrico Cashmere.”

Sybill began hearing rumors that the Kennedy marriage was in trouble, but but says she didn’t believe them until Kennedy called her at work and said he’d be in Aspen in February 1998.

“John told me, ‘I’m coming to a bachelor party at the Caribou Club and I have to see you,” she recalled.

The Enquirer confirmed with employees at the Caribou Club that Kennedy was there in early Februrary 1998 for a bachelor party. Aspen Club employees also confirmed that had a massage in early February and told a masseuse he was in town without his wife.

On Feb. 7, the night of the bachelor party, Kennedy called and asked her to pick him up, Sybill said.

“He was sneaking out of the party early,” she recalled. “At 9:30 p.m., I picked him up in an alley next to the club.”

Her then-boyfriend was in Tahiti, and she was staying in his two-story rustic home looking after his dog, so she took John there, Sybill said.

“I lit a fire in the fireplace. We started out on the couch, then moved down to an Oriental rug on the floor, and ended up upstairs in the bedroom,” she recalled. “I teased him, ‘Are you like a sailor with a girl in every port?’ John gazed into my eyes and said, ‘No, Sybill, you’re the only one.’”

“But he obviously felt guilty. He told me about his problems with Carolyn and said they’d been seeing a marriage counselor. He said he was considering divorce but still wanted to save the marriage. But then he startled me by asking, ‘What do you think you’ll be doing in two years?’ I took it to mean that he might be free in two years and was asking if I’d still be available. I told him, ‘I’ve never stopped loving you, and I’ll love you forever.’

“He begged me not to tell anyone about our night, saying, ‘Don’t even tell your twin sister.’ At 3 a.m., I drove him back to his rental car outside the Caribou Club. As he drove away, he gave me the peace sign. It was the last time I ever saw him.”

[From The National Enquirer print version, July 12, 2010]

I don’t find any of this to be all that shocking. The name “Kennedy” is pretty much synonymous with “man who cheats on his wife” at this point, isn’t it? John Jr. grew up in a family where the husbands all had something on the side. I guess what’s really surprising is that it was only one woman, and not a half dozen or so. I just don’t understand why this woman felt the need to spill a story that’s over a decade old- and there is no way for anyone to refute her claims because John and his wife are dead. It seems like a lame, fame-whorish move to me.

Header: Archive photo of JFK Jr. courtesy of WENN.

A former White House intern who had an affair with President John F. Kennedy is set to publish a memoir detailing their 18 month romance, which she kept a secret from the public for nearly 40 years. Mimi Beardsley Alford, 66, briefly acknowledged her affair with the late JFK in a statement made six years ago, and now she’s set to spill at least some of the details in an upcoming memoir. Alford is rumored to have received an advance for the book that approaches seven figures. While the memoir won’t be a tell-all it will probably still be a best seller and is sure to have some damning information on the ex President:

Mimi Beardsley Alford, a retired New York church administrator who had an affair with John F. Kennedy while she was an intern in the White House, is breaking a silence of more than 40 years to tell her story in a memoir to be published by Random House.

John F. Kennedy, right, with Robert F. Kennedy at the White House in October 1962.
Ms. Alford’s secret was initially divulged six years ago when a biography of Kennedy was published with portions from a 1964 oral history that described the president’s 18-month sexual affair with a young intern named Mimi Beardsley. The Daily News tracked her down and discovered that she was Marion Fahnestock, who was divorced, working for the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church and living in Manhattan. At the time, she gave a short statement confirming that she was “involved in a sexual relationship” with Kennedy from June 1962 to November 1963.

Ms. Alford, 66, who in the years since the disclosure had married Richard Alford, a former sports marketing executive, has not spoken about her affair since the statement. Before that, she had not even told her parents or her children. Now she is working on a memoir, to be titled “Once Upon a Secret,” about the consequences of hiding such an explosive past for so long.

Susan Mercandetti, executive editor at Random House, acquired the book after seeing about 20 pages and meeting with Ms. Alford. “I’ve seen enough to know what an extraordinary heart and soul exists in this book,” Ms. Mercandetti said.

Ms. Mercandetti, who was herself a White House intern under Gerald R. Ford, said the book would be a “woman’s coming-of-age story.”

She added: “It’s about a loss of innocence. I was just completely struck by how simple, yet how profound, it was.” She declined to say how much Random House had paid for the book, but a person familiar with the negotiations said it was close to seven figures.

Mark Reiter, Ms. Alford’s agent, said that Ms. Alford, who was just 19 when the affair with Kennedy started, was stunned by the tabloid takeover of her life in 2003. “As she thought about it, she said, ‘This is a story that I’d like to take control of, rather than have somebody else tell my side of it,’ ” Mr. Reiter said. Ms. Alford declined to comment.

Mr. Reiter said Ms. Alford attended Miss Porter’s School, the same prep school attended by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. According to “An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy 1917-1963,” by Robert Dallek, Mimi Beardsley was a “tall, slender, beautiful” college sophomore who worked in the White House press office in the summer when she began her affair with the president.

After Kennedy’s assassination, Ms. Alford married Anthony Fahnestock, an investment manager. Their marriage ended in divorce, and Mr. Fahnestock died in 1993.

According to Mr. Reiter, Ms. Alford is not writing a tell-all memoir. “She’s just not that type of person, where she’s going to spill her guts about intimate stuff for the whole country to see,” Mr. Reiter said. “The story has three acts to it: before the White House, during the White House, and then the really powerful part is what happens afterwards. What’s the impact on your family life, your marriage, knowing that this happened to you in your early life and you have chosen to keep it a secret.”

[From The NY Times]

I come from a family of Irish Catholic Democrats. There were photos of the Kennedys at my grandmother’s house and I have to admit that I have a magnet of the three Kennedy brothers on my fridge. A few years ago I took a visit to the Kennedy library outside Boston and took it all in with awe. It’s upsetting to think that Kennedy took advantage of a 19 year-old girl who worked for him. It’s like this great historical figure is being reduced to a kind of deceptive predator behind closed doors. I know that’s oversimplifying things, and he was only human, but there’s something despicable about this story.

In 1962 when the affair started Kennedy was 45, married to Jackie, and had two children. I’ve heard that he was a philanderer for a while, but here’s the evidence and it’s damning. There’s something so skeevy about sleeping with an intern. Although I think that Bill Clinton was a great President who left a strong legacy he’ll always have this kind of taint on him because of the Lewinsky scandal and impeachment. How disappointing that Kennedy was just as skeevy in his personal life. At least he didn’t get caught lying to the public about it like Clinton or Edwards.

I would read this book. This woman sounds like she was deeply affected by the affair and by trying to keep it secret for decades after Kennedy’s death. She may have done it out of concern for his surviving wife and children. Sadly only Caroline is left now.

A 53-year old man, who is currently going by the name John Fitzgerald Kennedy, is claiming to be the love child of Marilyn Monroe and the original JFK. Kennedy, who’s real name is John Burton, has filed a lawsuit against the President’s estate for his share of the inheritance. Lawyers for the estate are calling the suit “frivolous”.

John, be it Burton or Kennedy, says the reason he decided to go public was because he was being ignored by the administrators of the estate despite his repeated claims.

Asked why he waited 45 years after the president’s assassination to come forward, Kennedy, of Queens, New York, said: “You wait for people to do the right thing, and they don’t.

“That’s how you end up in my position.” The Manhattan federal court filing insists “Plaintiff is a child of President Kennedy” and insists that he’s been shut out of his “father’s” fortune.
His suit names the current administrators of the trust that was set up for Kennedy’s family, Edwin Schlossberg and Martin Edelman.

“In [his] will, each child of President Kennedy was to receive a certain amount of money each year pursuant to the terms in said will,” the suit says, and because he’s a Kennedy child, he deserves his share.

[From Daily Mail]

Lawsuits against the Kennedy estate claiming paternity have come up before, and none have proven genuine. But this John has taken it a step further, going as far as to say that, even though he has no photographic evidence, that Jack and Marilyn were “great parents”, and that “I couldn’t ask for anything better.” He’s also asking for a the court to give him a DNA test.

Plaintiff requests this court order DNA testing so that plaintiffs[sic] may prove that [sic] bona fides of his claim,” and order “genetic (DNA) testing of environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Congressman Patrick Kennedy.”

“Upon such proof being made,” Kennedy wants a judge to recognize him as a rightful heir, the suit says.

[From Daily Mail]

John Burton/Kennedy, at 53, would have been born in 1955. Between 1954 and 1956, Monroe was in four movies, River of No Return, There’s No Business Like Show Business, The Seven Year Itch, and Bus Stop, all of which showed her looking in excellent shape and not pregnant. She was also married to Joe DiMaggio until November of 1954 and started dating her next husband, Arthur Miller, in May of 1955. Mr. Burton should have done some research and math in claiming his maternal identity.

Attorneys for the estate of JFK intend to “vigorously defend against” the lawsuit.