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What we know about Ryan Murphy’s JFK Jr. show ‘American Love | |
Story’ | |
By Dan Heching, CNN | |
Updated: | |
1:56 PM EDT, Sun August 24, 2025 | |
Source: CNN | |
If you’ve gotten to the end of the and want more, there’s a lavish | |
dramatic retelling of his life, love and tragic death coming, but | |
you’ll have to wait a bit. | |
In the tradition of his Emmy-winning anthologies “American Horror | |
Story” and “American Crime Story,” TV dynamo will next year | |
unveil “American Love Story,” focusing on John F. Kennedy Jr. and | |
his wife Carolyn Bessette. It’s another in-depth exploration of a | |
headline-grabbing story from 1990s-era America; Murphy’s “Crime | |
Story” anthology has so far explored the stories of the O.J. Simpson | |
trial, the assassination of Gianni Versace, and the Clinton-Lewinsky | |
scandal. He also explored the Menendez brothers double-murder trial in | |
his “Monsters” anthology. | |
“American Love Story” is set to explore JFK Jr. and Bessette’s | |
courtship and marriage, as well as their tragic deaths in a 1999 plane | |
crash off of Martha’s Vineyard, according to IMDb. Here’s what else | |
we know about the series so far. | |
The cast | |
The show will feature a cast portraying some of the most iconic | |
personalities of the last century, including Jacqueline Kennedy | |
Onassis, mother to JFK Jr. The former first lady will be played by | |
Naomi Watts, who previously collaborated with Murphy on his “Feud: | |
Capote vs. the Swans” series. | |
Another notable name that comes up is Grace Gummer, Meryl Streep’s | |
daughter, who will portray JFK Jr.’s sister Caroline Kennedy. | |
As for the central couple, JFK Jr. will be played by relatively unknown | |
actor Paul Anthony Kelly, whose sole prior credit is a 2010 television | |
series titled “Body Language.” Carolyn Bessette will be portrayed | |
by Sarah Pidgeon, who previously acted in “The Wilds” and “Tiny | |
Beautiful Things” and is featured in this summer’s horror reboot | |
“I Know What You Did Last Summer.” | |
Other famed personalities in the series will include Calvin Klein, to | |
be played by Alessandro Nivola, and Edwin Schlossberg, who will be | |
played by “Angels in America” star Ben Shenkman. | |
Uproar over some first look images | |
Very much mirroring the insane scrutiny that the featured couple had to | |
endure during their lifetimes, various photos from the production of | |
“American Love Story” caused quite the media stir earlier this | |
summer, when everything from to hair color received . | |
Bessette-Kennedy was a style maven in the ’90s, and all eyes are on | |
the character’s looks in the finished show. Things reached a fever | |
pitch when her former colorist spoke to about Pidgeon’s hair color | |
being “totally wrong.” Even Murphy himself spoke up about it all, | |
telling in June, “Carolyn Bessette is clearly a religious figure and | |
it’s a religion of her own. It’s very interesting that people | |
become so inflammatory.” | |
Release date | |
“American Love Story” is set for release in February 2026, with a | |
streaming release noted on IMDb as February 14. | |
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