Is Carolyn Bessette Kennedy Dead or Still Alive? Carolyn Bessette Kennedy Birthday and Date of Death

Carolyn Bessette Kennedy Death

Carolyn passed away on July 16, 1999 at the age of 33 in Ocean around Martha`s Vineyard, Massachusetts, USA. Carolyn's cause of death was plane crash.

Carolyn Bessette Kennedy Birthday and Date of Death

Carolyn Bessette Kennedy was born on January 7, 1966 and died on July 16, 1999. Carolyn was 33 years old at the time of death.

Birthday: January 7, 1966
Date of Death: July 16, 1999
Age at Death: 33

Carolyn Bessette Kennedy - Biography

Carolyn Jeanne Bessette-Kennedy (January 7, 1966 – July 16, 1999) was a former publicist for Calvin Klein and the wife of John F. Kennedy Jr., the son of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Upon her marriage, Bessette-Kennedy's relationship with her husband and her fashion sense became the subject of intense media scrutiny, drawing comparisons to her mother-in-law Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
Bessette was born in White Plains, Westchester County, New York, the youngest child of William J. Bessette, a cabinet maker, and Ann Messina, an academic administrator in the New York City public school system. She had two older sisters, twins Lauren and Lisa. Bessette's parents divorced when she was very young. Her mother later remarried Richard Freeman, an orthopedic surgeon, and moved to Old Greenwich, Connecticut, while Bessette's father stayed in White Plains.

Kennedy died on July 16, 1999, along with her husband and older sister Lauren, when the light plane that he was piloting crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the western side of Martha's Vineyard. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) determined that the probable cause of the crash was: "The pilot's failure to maintain control of the airplane during a descent over water at night, which was a result of spatial disorientation. Factors in the accident were haze and the dark night."
After a five day search, the wreckage was discovered in the late afternoon of July 21. The bodies were recovered from the ocean floor by Navy divers and taken by motorcade to the county medical examiner's office, where autopsies revealed that the crash victims had died upon impact. At the same time, the Kennedy and Bessette families announced their plans for memorial services.
In the late hours of July 21, the three bodies were taken from Hyannis to Duxbury, where they were cremated in the Mayflower Cemetery crematorium. On the morning of July 22, their ashes were scattered from the Navy ship USS Briscoe off the coast of Martha's Vineyard.