{"id":394447,"date":"2026-01-08T04:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T04:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/394447\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T04:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T04:20:07","slug":"kennedy-source-call-timing-of-jfk-jr-show-insensitive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/394447\/","title":{"rendered":"Kennedy source call timing of JFK Jr. show\u00a0‘insensitive’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hollywood super producer Ryan Murphy is being dubbed \u201cinsensitive\u201d for failing to push back his new Kennedy drama in the wake of Tatiana Schlossberg\u2019s death<\/a>, a source told Page Six.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmerican Love Story\u201d \u2014 which focuses on the marriage and tragic deaths of John F. Kennedy Jr. and his wife, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy \u2014 is slated to debut next month on FX and Hulu, just weeks after the December 30 passing of JFK Jr.\u2019s niece Tatiana, 35, from leukemia.<\/p>\n

A source who knows the Kennedy family told Page Six that the prospect of the drama airing as Caroline Kennedy, Tatiana\u2019s mother and JFK Jr.\u2019s only sibling, is \u201cinsensitive \u2026 this is a very sorrowful time for Caroline and for everybody in the family right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Paul Anthony Kelly and Sarah Pidgeon play John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy in the new FX and Hulu series \u201cAmerican Love Story\u201d \u2014 which is set to debut in February. A source said the show, which the Kennedy family opposes, will add to Caroline Kennedy\u2019s stress as she is grieving the death of daughter Tatiana Schlossberg. BACKGRID<\/p>\n

The real-life JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessete-Kennedy were never out of the headlines during their torrid three-year marriage. Sygma via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Some members of the family \u201cassumed that the show would be pushed back, but there hasn\u2019t been any mention of that,\u201d the source said, adding that Caroline, 68, is way too dignified to even think of approaching the producers.<\/p>\n

FX reps could not be reached for comment.<\/p>\n

Tatiana\u2019s brother, Jack Schlossberg, is one of the project\u2019s biggest critics<\/a> and previously slammed Murphy for creating the show about his late uncle without consulting the Kennedy family.<\/p>\n

Tatiana Schlossberg is pictured with her husband, Dr George Moran, and their children, Josephine and Edwin, weeks before her death from leukemia aged 35. jfklibraryfdn\/Instagram<\/p>\n

Grieving Caroline Kennedy was seen holding her granddaughter, Josephine Moran, at her daughter Tatiana\u2019s funeral on Monday in NYC. TheImageDirect.com<\/p>\n

\u201cFor those wondering whether his family was ever consulted, or has anything to do with, the new shows being made about him, the answer is no,\u201d Schlossberg, who is running for a US House seat in New York\u2019s 12th congressional district<\/a>, posted on Instagram in June. \u201cFor the record, I think admiration for my Uncle John is great. What I don\u2019t think is great is profiting off of it in a grotesque way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Murphy bought the rights to Elizabeth Beller\u2019s book, \u201cOnce Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy,\u201d to use as source material for the show, Beller\u2019s publisher confirmed.<\/p>\n

Schlossberg also criticized Murphy for not setting aside profits from the show for the Kennedy Library.<\/p>\n

JFK Jr. and his wife died in a July 1999 plane crash alongside Carolyn\u2019s sister, Lauren Bessette.<\/p>\n

Ryan Murphy is the producer being \u201cAmerican Love Story\u201d \u2014\u00a0and now being called \u201cinsensitive\u201d by a Kennedy family source over the timing of the series. WireImage<\/p>\n

Jack Schlossberg \u2014 seen with father Edwin Schlossberg at his sister Tatiana\u2019s funeral \u2014\u00a0has lashed out at Murphy, calling \u201cAmerican Love Story\u201d \u201cgrotesque.\u201d Elder Ordonez\/INSTARimages<\/p>\n

After Schlossberg aired his grievances on social media, Murphy responded on the \u201cThis Is Gavin Newsom Podcast\u201d that he \u201cthought it was an odd choice to be mad about your relative that you really don\u2019t remember.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schlossberg, who was 6 years old when his uncle died, shot back: \u201cMy earliest memories are of John calling me Jackolantern and \u2018the nudist,\u2019 picking me up from school, his Pontiac convertible. I remember being the ring bearer at his wedding and the day he died. I remember Wyclef singing at his funeral.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also claimed that Murphy is \u201cmaking millions\u201d off JFK Jr.\u2019s life without contributing \u201cany of your riches to the causes he championed, or the legacy of public service he represented.\u201d<\/p>\n

Paul Anthony Kelly, whose sole prior credit is a 2010 television series titled \u201cBody Language,\u201d plays JFK Jr. while Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy is portrayed by Sarah Pidgeon. Naomi Watts plays Jackie Kennedy and Grace Gummer portrays Caroline Kennedy.<\/p>\n

Grace Gummer plays Caroline Kennedy alongside Paul Anthony Kelly as JFK Jr. in \u201cAmerican Love Story.\u201d GC Images<\/p>\n

Jack Schlossberg \u2014 seen here (right) with father Edwin, mother Caroline and sister Tatiana \u2014 blasted Murphy for claiming he did not even know his late uncle. AP<\/p>\n

Tatiana, who penned an essay about her illness<\/a> published by the New Yorker in November, left behind a 3-year-old son, Edwin, and 1-year-old daughter, Josephine, with her husband George Moran.<\/p>\n

The Kennedy family was joined by former president Joe Biden and former New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg at Tatiana\u2019s funeral service Monday<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hollywood super producer Ryan Murphy is being dubbed \u201cinsensitive\u201d for failing to push back his new Kennedy drama…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[162046,236,7569,91,88,26071,11494,160801],"class_list":["post-394447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-caroline-kennedy","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-deaths","tag-celebrity-news","tag-entertainment","tag-john-f-kennedy-jr","tag-ryan-murphy","tag-tatiana-schlossberg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}