Now, 25 years later, Beller has written a biography, “Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy.” The writer, who never met Carolyn, very much wants her subject to be ...

But in a tragic twist of fate, JFK Jr., Carolyn and her sister Lauren Bessette were killed in a plane crash on July 16, 1999 — just weeks before the death of Kennedy's beloved cousin.