A femme fatale who covered a lot of ground was Judith Exner, who died of cancer in 1999. She is remembered mainly for her affair (if that is the best term) with John F. Kennedy, both before and after he was president.
Exner first had become involved with crooner Frank Sinatra. It was "Old Blue Eyes" who in 1960 introduced her to Kennedy during a get-together in Las Vegas. He also introduced her to Mafia kingpin San Giancana at about that same time. Enterprising young woman that she was, she began sleeping with both men and by her own account, became a go-between for dealings between them in a plot to murder Fidel Castro of Cuba.
Her account of all this high-powered hanky-panky came out in Exner's 1977 memoir, "My Story," in which she claimed that JFK was active as a jack rabbit in messing around with women who "were not his'n." According to Exner, he dallied with strippers, prostitutes, a likely Danish spy, and Marilyn Monroe. Her own involvement with Kennedy, she wrote, lasted around two years. The beautiful brunette also claimed to have aborted JFK's baby around a year before he was assassinated.
Exner's life quieted down when she married golfer Dan Exner in 1975. The couple split more than a decade later, and she lived out her life alone in California.
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