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Judith Exner. Judith Exner (January 11, 1934 – September 24, 1999) was an American woman who claimed to be the mistress of U.S. Senator, then U.S. president John F. Kennedy and Mafia leaders Sam Giancana and John Roselli. Several aspects of her claim of having known Kennedy have been verified by documents, phone records, and testimony.
Sept. 26, 1999 12 AM PT. TIMES STAFF WRITER. Judith Campbell Exner, the Los Angeles socialite whose affair with President John F. Kennedy embroiled her in decades of vilification as the first to ...
- The Early Life of Socialite Judith Exner
- Tragedy Strikes
- Judith Campbell Exner’s Later Years and Notoriety
Judith Exner was bornin 1935 to a well-off family and raised in the wealthy neighborhoods of the Pacific Palisades, California. Exner’s father was an architect and a good enough one that the family shared a street with Bob Hope. At the age of 18, Judith Exner became Judith Campbell when she married actor William Campbell, whom she met while partyin...
The relationship between Judith Campbell Exner and John F. Kennedy grew strained as the FBI began to sniff around their dealings with the mob. Exner realized that she was being followed. Acting FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was on assignment by Kennedy’s brother, Robert F. Kennedy, attorney general, to clamp down on organized crime. It’s not really ...
No one knew of Exner’s role in the Kennedy affair until this time. That was when a Senate committee demanded to know her role in certain covert operations involving the White House as they had White House phone logs revealing her contact with the president. She told the committee she had an extramarital affair with Kennedy. She also said that she h...
- William Delong
Sep 19, 2017 · Judith Exner famously had a 2½-year affair with JFK, ending in 1962 – just one year before his assassination in Dallas. Now – ahead of the 18th anniversary of her death at age 65 after a ...
- Lindsay Kimble
Sep 27, 1999 · Sept. 30, 1999. An obituary on Monday reported the death of Judith Campbell Exner. It quoted assertions she had made over the years that she had had an affair with John F. Kennedy before and after ...
Sep 27, 1999 · She was 65. Ms. Exner, who lived in Newport Beach, Calif., died at the City of Hope Cancer Center in Duarte, Calif. She had suffered from cancer since 1978, according to her attorney, James Lesar of Washington, D.C. Ms. Exner made waves in 1977 with her autobiography, "My Story," which included a description of her alleged affair with Kennedy.
Sep 26, 1999 · September 26, 1999 at 1:00 a.m. EDT. Judith Campbell Exner, 65, a suburban California woman who made headlines in the mid-1970s when her named was linked to President John F. Kennedy as well as ...
