"Bessette was looking at like, maybe we can't live in New York City. Maybe we have to, you know, figure out a different life so that she wasn't going to be followed."
"She wanted freedom. She wanted some kind of way to get past this, and she hadn't figured it out yet."
"She started to get a little agoraphobic. So many photographers just harassed [her]."
"The next thing you know, you can't go anywhere and you are being followed. It was hard. Really, really hard."
John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette were looking to leave New York City due to intense paparazzi attention. Bessette was house-hunting in the suburbs shortly before their deaths in a 1999 plane crash. A close friend revealed that Bessette wanted to find a different life to avoid being followed. They considered properties with long driveways for privacy. Bessette became increasingly agoraphobic, rarely leaving their Tribeca apartment due to harassment from photographers. While Kennedy Jr. was accustomed to the spotlight, Bessette struggled with the pressures of fame after their marriage.
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