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Marion Fay "Mimi" Alford (née Beardsley; born May 7, 1943) is an American woman who had an affair with President John F. Kennedy while she served as an intern in the White House press office between 1962 and 1963.
Feb 13, 2023 · Mimi Alford was 19 years old when she was seduced by President John F. Kennedy. Decades later, she wrote a tell-all book about their relationship.
- Kathy Ehrich Dowd
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Feb 6, 2012 · Mimi Alford was a 19-year-old White House intern when she says she began an affair with President Kennedy.
- Henry Blodget
Feb 8, 2012 · The author of “Once Upon a Secret,” Mimi Alford, had an affair with President John F. Kennedy before she was old enough to vote. Having kept this story under wraps for almost 50 years, Ms....
- Judith Exner
- Marilyn Monroe
- Mary Pinchot Meyer
- Mimi Alford
- Jill Cowan
- Priscilla Wear
Judith Exner, who served as a conduit between JFK and mobster Sam Giancana, famously claimed that she had an abortionafter she became pregnant with the president's child. "Jack couldn't have been more loving, more concerned about my feelings, more considerate, more gentle," Exner, the daughter of a well-off architect, told PEOPLE of JFK in a 1988 i...
JFK's relationship with sultry actress and model Marilyn Monroe has long been the subject of speculation, spurred by her iconic "Happy Birthday" performancefor the commander-in-chief at a May 1962 Madison Square Garden fundraiser. A rare photo taken after the performance during a party at the home of movie executive Arthur Krim — which was not publ...
The sister-in-law of legendary Washington Posteditor Ben Bradlee chronicled her alleged affair with Kennedy in her diary, Bradlee later revealed. In early 2016, a handwritten love letter from JFK to Mary Pinchot Meyer surfaced in an online auctionfrom Boston's RR Auction. "Why don't you leave suburbia for once — come and see me — either here — or a...
As a White House intern in 1962, Mimi Alford claimed to have begun an 18-month relationship with JFK — an affair outlined in her explosive 2012 memoir, Once Upon a Secret: My Affair With John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath. She found the president "magnetic" but told PEOPLE in 2012 that "he wasn't looking for a relationship to replace his marriage." ...
Jill Cowan was a secretary in the White House Press Office and often accompanied the president on official trips, per The Atlantic. She never commented on the details of their relationship. She did, however, say that JFK was "fascinated with youth" in a 1965 oral history housed at the JFK Library. Cowan also said in the same interview how much he a...
Priscilla Wear was also a White House staff member who worked under JFK's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln. The alleged affair was apparently something that Jackie was aware of, according to Barbara Gamarekian, a Kennedy press aide. While speaking in French to a Paris-Matchreporter, Jackie commented about Wear, Gamarekian recalled in an oral history house...
- Lindsay Kimble
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Feb 5, 2012 · Extracts in the US media of Once Upon A Secret by Mimi Alford recount the affair she had with the president whilst an intern at the White House. She also relates Mr Kennedy's thoughts...
Feb 6, 2012 · Rock Center’s Meredith Vieira talks to Mimi Alford, a woman who says she had an affair with President John F. Kennedy when she was an intern at the White House in the 1960s.
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