![]() She can’t recall the exact location of their final meeting, either his home or the Oval Office, but it was the last time she ever saw him. “I was 20 years old, with a full supply of hormones and madly in love with this compelling man.” Alamy Stock Photo A 1960 campaign poster for JFK: “I didn’t realize then that I’d simply been netted, separated from the other students,” de Vegh said. As their meetings diminished so did her sense of self, and she decided to run away to Paris. “I didn’t realize quite what was going on, but then things shifted radically.”Īnd so JFK began to put her “back on the shelf.” They met less, he began calling her “cold” (even though she felt he was the cold one), she told Air Mail. “He had nothing against me, but he realized it could really be a problem, because a lot of people knew my dad, but he couldn’t just drop me, so we had to kind of dwindle,” she explained to The Post. “I didn’t realize quite what was going on, but then things shifted radically.” Courtesy Diana de Vegh “ couldn’t just drop me, so we had to kind of dwindle,” she explained to The Post. He called Diana to his Georgetown home and asked her to confirm the fact. Then, in 1962, Commander-in-Chief JFK discovered de Vegh’s father was the same Hungarian economist he’d recently begun consulting with on political affairs. “It will be better there,” de Vegh told Air Mail he assured after she admitted she didn’t feel cared for by President Kennedy.Īt the time, rumors of this powerful public figure’s carnal Camelot marathon - from aristocratic Swedish mistresses to shared-with-Sinatra mob molls to doomed Hollywood bombshell Marilyn Monroe - were nothing more than hushed whispers that wouldn’t dare reach the mainstream until decades later. Still, she longed for more than scraps of his time and attention, and eventually moved to Washington, DC, to be near to him as he pursued the nation’s highest office. They’d make love in a Boston apartment he kept and at the Carlyle Hotel on NYC’s Upper East Side. The clandestine couple often hooked up here. Patrick’s Cathedral to attend Low Mass in the late 1950s. Kennedy leaves his campaign headquarters at the Carlyle Hotel en route to St. Kennedy did not participate at this level of suburban campaigning.” Donning his coat, John F. “It was easy, and emotionally convenient,” she explained of JFK’s reasoning for the routine, “because Mrs. “You know I’m working pretty hard for just one vote here,” he would often tease her once they were together in the car. She’d be tended to by staff who’d call her “sweetheart” and fetch her coffee (“what they were actually doing was making sure I was inconspicuous at these public events and remained at an appropriate distance from the center of attention”) before JFK joined her for the drive home after. No matter, the rising star senator initiated regular rendezvous with his starstruck student: A clandestine driver would scoop up de Vegh from her off-campus residence and cart her to wherever he was campaigning. ‘Back then, nice girls did not have sex, that was a no-kidding-around situation so I did not talk about it.’ Diana de Vegh, speaking to The Post about her affair with JFK JFK was already a married 40-year-old with a notoriously bad back. “I was 20 years old, with a full supply of hormones and madly in love with this compelling man.” “I didn’t realize then that I’d simply been netted, separated from the other students,” she wrote for Graydon Carter’s digital weekly, Air Mail News on Saturday, in her first public telling of her secret romance with the charismatic American icon-to-be. ![]() The future 35th US president and his coed conquest would sleep together on and off for the next four years. “Give me your seat, so a tired old man can sit next to a pretty girl,” de Vegh recalled JFK telling her date at the event, initiating the pair’s first, seemingly innocent meeting. Suddenly, he was at her table, asking to sit next to her, then personally inviting her to an event the following week. But in 1958, she was a soul-searching Radcliffe College junior, rapt as JFK delivered a galvanizing senatorial re-election campaign speech in a Boston ballroom. ![]() Today, Diana de Vegh is an 83-year-old grandmother of two who is legally blind and maintains her private psychotherapy practice of 20 years out of her West Village apartment. Mistress who helped catch wife-killer talked to victim the day she was murderedĬeltics staffer who had affair with coach made travel arrangements for his fiancéeįor 63 years, she kept her “madly in love” affair with John F. What is emotional cheating? Why this infidelity is way worse than a one-night stand
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