The Kennedys: After Camelot, Ep. 7: Pat and Peter

President John F. Kennedy (whose extramarital dalliances would only publicly emerge years after his death) was fond of saying, "every time Dad had another affair, he would pin another diamond brooch on mother's dress."

As the sixth of Joe and Rose Kennedy's nine children, Pat had witnessed firsthand how the #Kennedy men always got away with being unfaithful to their long-suffering wives, and when her movie star husband Peter Lawford cheated on her with Hollywood Rat Pack starlets, Pat was determined to be the first Kennedy wife to do something about it.

In January 1966, Patricia Lawford broke new (and controversial) ground by becoming the first Kennedy to ever get a #divorce.

In this episode we will delve into the tangled web of relationships between Patricia, Jackie and Ethel Kennedy while #JFK and #RFK were both allegedly carrying on affairs with #MarilynMonroe, arranging their secret trysts at the home of Marilyn's close friends Pat and Peter Lawford, and how this family betrayal was later rectified between the Kennedy women after JFK's assassination.

We will also discuss why Peter Lawford was ousted from The Rat Pack by Frank #Sinatra after his friendship with the president was ended by Attorney General Robert Kennedy, and how his acting prospects in #Hollywood practically vanished once he was no longer married into the Kennedy family.

Join me for another fascinating chapter of J. Randy Tarraborrelli’s book “The Kennedys: After #Camelot.”

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