For those who’ve been seeing a rise in JFK Jr. TikTok edits or ‘90s Calvin Klein outfit inspo, that’ll in all probability be as a result of everybody’s watching Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette.
If the title wasn’t sufficient of a giveaway, the nine-episode FX sequence tracks the tumultuous relationship between JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette, the ability couple of ’90s New York Metropolis.
After getting married in September 1996, the pair died collectively when their small airplane, which John was piloting, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off Martha’s Winery in 1999. Carolyn’s sister, Lauren, was additionally killed within the tragedy.
The present stars Paul Anthony Kelly and Sarah Pidgeon because the titular couple, and it was written and created by Connor Hines. Ryan Murphy serves as an govt producer. The sequence has acquired blended critiques from critics, although it’s definitely captured viewers’ hearts. And with 4 extra episodes nonetheless left to go, Love Story is giving us loads to speak about.
However, as has been the case with various previous Ryan Murphy-produced tasks impressed by actual occasions, the residing members of the family of the present’s topics have voiced criticisms…
Jack Schlossberg is the 33-year-old nephew of JFK Jr., and his dad and mom, Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg, are depicted on the present. Jack was solely 6 years previous when John, Carolyn, and Lauren died within the crash, so his identify hasn’t come up within the sequence up to now, though he’s portrayed very briefly by a baby actor throughout an early scene the place John is taking part in together with his sister’s children.
Jack has been crucial of Love Story because the preliminary casting information broke final summer season. “For these questioning whether or not his household was ever consulted, or has something to do with, the brand new reveals being made about him, the reply isn’t any. And there is actually not a lot we will do,” he mentioned on his Instagram story in June 2025, accusing the present of “profiting off” his household.
On the time, Murphy snarkily responded to this throughout an look on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s podcast, saying: “I assumed it was an odd option to be mad about your relative that you just actually don’t bear in mind.”
Jack then hit again at Murphy by itemizing various particulars he recollects of his late uncle, like “being the ring bearer at his marriage ceremony” and him “selecting me up from faculty.” “I bear in mind Wyclef singing at his funeral,” he mentioned.
For what it’s value, the workforce behind Love Story has defended their determination to not seek the advice of John and Carolyn’s members of the family, with creator Connor Hines beforehand telling Selection that “it’s extra wholesome and efficient to have a long way from the subject material.”
“It permits you to be much more goal in the way you method the fabric,” he defined, “versus whenever you’re speaking to individuals personally, you are feeling a way of duty of relaying precisely what they’re telling you as a result of they’ve given you their time.” Of the Kennedys particularly, he mentioned: “It’s an extremely massive household… So if you happen to have been to speak about consulting them, the place would you even start?”
Effectively, with the present solely gaining extra reputation on-line, Jack has voiced his criticism of Love Story as soon as once more, particularly taking goal on the present’s well-known govt producer.
“If you wish to know somebody who’s by no means met anybody in my household, is aware of nothing about us, discuss to Ryan Murphy,” he mentioned whereas discussing his congressional marketing campaign on CBS Sunday Morning final week. “I’d simply need individuals who do watch the present to observe it with one letter in thoughts, and that’s a capital F for ‘fiction.’ The man is aware of nothing about what he’s speaking about, and he’s making a ton of cash on a grotesque show of another person’s life.”
“I’d hope that Mr. Murphy would donate among the tens of millions of {dollars} of income that he’s making to perhaps among the causes that John championed all through his life,” the 33-year-old continued. “Perhaps he would donate a few of that cash to the JFK library to assist preserve President Kennedy’s reminiscence alive, however he’s not. He’s earning money. This isn’t a documentary.”
When requested if there was one thing “specific” about Love Story that he discovered troubling, Jack pointed towards the present state of the US — particularly, the second Trump administration, and his cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was appointed US secretary of well being and human companies in 2025.
“I feel within the final 12 months, two years, three years, partly due to RFK Jr., but additionally partly as a result of Donald Trump has used JFK as type of a human punching bag, each by renaming the Kennedy Middle after himself, by doing a false reinvestigation into the assassination and dismantling all of the applications that he fought for, there’s plenty of misinformation now and iconography getting used concerning the Kennedy household, my household, at a time after we actually can’t afford to confuse individuals,” he mentioned.
Concluding that folks ought to be utilizing “each breath that we now have to attempt to make issues higher,” Jack gave a direct suggestion: “If Ryan Murphy actually cares a lot concerning the Kennedy household, my Uncle John, perhaps he would attempt to do one thing about getting Trump out of energy.”
