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She was 65 when she died Friday at City of Hope hospital in Duarte, and had spent the last decades of her life battling both the cancer that ultimately killed her and the speculation that...
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.
- 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.
- Lindsay Kimble
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...
Jun 13, 2012 · TheTimes had to apologize for its own obituary of Judith Exner (a woman who was the lover, simultaneously, of the president of the United States and of the Mafia boss Sam Giancana), which had...
Mar 1, 1998 · JFK, Bobby, Marilyn, Jackie--all are dead, their secrets dead with them. But Exner is still here, in a Newport Beach home she leaves only for radiation and chemotherapy, a 64-year-old woman whose...
