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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.
Judith Campbell Exner, the Los Angeles socialite whose affair with President John F. Kennedy embroiled her in decades of vilification as the first to shatter the Camelot myth, has died.
- 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 27, 1999 · Judith Campbell Exner, who asserted in a 1988 interview in People magazine that she had been having an affair with John F. Kennedy when he was elected President, died late Friday at the City of...
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- John Kuroski
Sep 19, 2017 · Over a decade later, Exner was subpoenaed to testify in front of the Senate. She lied. “If I’d told the truth, I’d have been killed. I kept my secret out of fear,” she told PEOPLE in 1988 ...
Nov 14, 2013 · Judith Exner: In an interview for a 1997 Vanity Fair article, Exner said she ended a two-year affair with Kennedy in early 1963. She also claimed she aborted his child around the same time.
