Judith Campbell Exner, the bombshell-dropping reputed lover of former President John F. Kennedy and Chicago mob boss Sam Giancana, has died of breast cancer.
Exner, 65, battled the disease for decades. She died Friday at a hospital in Duarte, Calif.
In 1975, Exner single-handedly shattered the myth of Camelot when she was dragged before a Senate committee investigating alleged CIA plots to kill Cuban President Fidel Castro.
She detailed to incredulous senators how she was introduced to Kennedy by Frank Sinatra in Las Vegas in 1960 and began an affair with Kennedy before and after he entered the White House.
In 1977, she wrote a book, “My Story,” detailing their alleged affair.
In a magazine interview three years before her death, Exner claimed to have become pregnant with Kennedy’s love child 10 months before he was assassinated, and to have had an abortion.
At one point, she said Kennedy showed up for one of their trysts with another woman and suggested a “threesome,” which Exner rebuffed.
Exner said her regular trysts with Kennedy in hotel rooms, his Georgetown home and the White House came to an end in 1962, after FBI director J. Edgar Hoover told Kennedy he knew about them and about Exner’s ties to Giancana.
She denied to the 1975 Senate committee that she was a go-between for Kennedy and Giancana, but she later revised her story.
She eventually claimed that she transported money and documents between the American president and the mob heavyweight concerning the “elimination” of Castro.