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Carole Radziwill appears to be addressing her connections to Jeffrey Epstein and John F. Kennedy Jr. in the upcoming season of The Real Housewives of New York City.
The 62-year-old socialite is making her return to the show in season 16, after leaving the cast in 2018, and a trailer for the upcoming season shows Radziwill referring to her ties to Epstein and alluding to JFK Jr.
In a trailer, which was released on July 21, Radziwill is heckled by a stranger who yells out "The Epstein files!" while she's walking the streets with co-star Erin Lichy. In another scene, Radziwill is quizzed by Sai de Silva about whether she went to Epstein's island, which she denies before asking, "You think I'm part of an international sex-trafficking ring?"
Radziwill was named in the Epstein files, but she told The New York Times in March that she "never knew Jeffrey Epstein," but was friends with Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite who was convicted for her role in aiding Epstein's sexual abuse of young girls. "Imagine knowing someone… and then they turn out to be, like, a monster," Radziwill said. According to Radziwill, their friendship ended before Maxwell's crimes came to the surface.
In another clip, Radziwill is heard saying, "Everyone's American Love Story is my American horror story," which appears to be a reference to FX's Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette. Radziwill was a close friend of Bessette's and was married to JFK Jr.'s cousin, Anthony Radziwill, who served as best man at the couple's 1996 wedding.
Radziwill's husband passed away from cancer just three weeks after the couple died in a 1999 plane crash. The reality star was not featured in Ryan Murphy's adaptation of the couple's love story, which starred Paul Anthony Kelly and Sarah Pidgeon. She also confirmed in a February 2026 post on her Substack that she didn't plan on watching the show. "Sitting here now, we know how it ended," she wrote. "And yet the story keeps being told. Reinvented. Embroidered. Filled with details no one could possibly know, by people who weren't there and don't care about the truth."
"I no longer worry about misrepresentations, false narratives, or bent truths. I don't flinch at flat, lifeless descriptions or cornball storylines. I don't care whether people get it wrong, get it right, or ever know what they were really like," she added.
