How Many Women?

A Detailed
List of the JFK’s Affairs
“If I don’t have a lay for three days I get a headache.”

So said the 35th President of the United States, as recalled by British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. Although
he carefully cultivated the image of the devoted family man, John F. Kennedy was possibly the most prolific
philanderer ever to grace the Oval Office.
This sexual intrepidness, alongside a myriad of other factors, has helped secure the enduring Kennedy myth and
image. Although at best a moderately successful president, Kennedy has attained icon status.

1. Marilyn Monroe, actress and icon

Although it was only speculated for many years, it is now certain

that JFK and Marilyn Monroe had an affair.

They first met in February 1962, at a dinner in New York. What

followed was a brief affair, conducted primarily at Bing Crosby’s
house in Palm Springs, but it seems Monroe harbored dreams of
becoming the First Lady. Allegedly she wrote to Jackie explaining
her intentions.

Furthermore, it is alleged that JFK’s brother Bobby had a much

longer affair with Monroe, and possibly arranged for Monroe to be
murdered and have her death disguised as suicide.

2. Judith Exner, mob moll

Before becoming President, JFK openly socialised

with the infamous Rat Pack. He was close with
Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr, and through
them maintained a politically expedient channel
to mobsters.

It was at one gathering at the Sands Hotel in Las

Vegas in 1960 that Sinatra introduced JFK to Judith Campbell, an ex of Chicago mob boss Sam Giancana. They
struck up an affair, which continued for whilst JFK was President. She regularly visited the White House, and their
affair spanned a few years.

More shockingly, Exner later claimed that she was a courier for packages between JFK and Giancana. These claims
were substantiated by the research of investigative journalist Seymour Hersch.
Exner was the first person to publicly expose JFK’s dark side, describing in detail her affair to a Senate committee
and ushering in a period of revisionist analysis on JFK’s presidency.

The Kennedy administration has been conclusively shown to have collaborated with mobsters during Operation
Mongoose, the covert programme to destabilise the Castro regime in Cuba (where the mob has substantial
financial interests) and that collaboration was perhaps anchored by JFK’s relationship with Exner.
She also claimed to have aborted JFK’s child.

3. Inga Arvad, ‘spy’

Dane “Inga Binga” was a long-term girlfriend of JFK

whilst he worked in the navy, and was rumoured to
be a Soviet spy. Their break-up was driven by
Kennedy’s father, who feared the terminal effects
this relationship could have on his son’s future
political career.

4. Anita Ekberg, actress

The star of La Dolce Vita and global sex symbol was

briefly connected with the President.

5. Ellen Rometsch, call girl

East-German-born Rometsch was married to a German Air Force
sergeant Rolf Rometsch, who was stationed in Washington during the
height of the Cold War.

However, she was also a high class call girl who had a brief dalliance with
JFK. She was one of many prostitutes who Dave Powers, JFK’s Special
Assistant, solicited for the President.

Moreover, she was heavily rumoured to be a communist spy, and was

expelled from the US in August 1963 (at the behest of Attorney-General
Robert Kennedy), with the Profumo Affair in Britain highlighting the
danger of sexual promiscuity.
6. Gene Tierney, actress

A running theme of JFK’s affairs was his dalliances with movie stars. One of the more illustrious was Gene Tierney,
who Kennedy had an affair with around 1948, when she was still married.

7. Mimi Alford, White House intern

Whilst an intern at the White House, 19-year-old Alford lost her virginity to the President and engaged in an 18-
month affair. A few years ago she revealed the details of their relationship, including that JFK took recreational
drugs with her.

JFK also successfully dared her to perform oral sex on his Special Assistant, Dave Powers, in the White House pool.

8. Marlene Dietrich, actress and singer

Dietrich revealed the details of her 1962 tryst with the President, saying, ‘I don’t remember most of what
happened because it was all so quick’.

She later told friend Gore Vidal that her initial reaction of, “You know, Mr President, I am not very young”
eventually became, “Don’t muss my hair. I’m performing”.

She was also a long-time lover of JFK’s father, Joseph P Kennedy.

9. Mary Pinchot Meyer, CIA agent’s ex-wife
Meyer, who had a fairly well-known affair with JFK, was shot and killed in mysterious circumstances in 1964, a year
after the president’s death.

It has been claimed that she was murdered to prevent her revealing the details of their affair.

10 and 11. Fiddle and Faddle (Priscilla Wear and Jill Cowen), White House secretaries

Two secretaries in the Kennedy White House

whose primary role was to skinny-dip with
the President in the enclosed pool. They also
were brought on business trips to Berlin,
Rome, Ireland and Costa Rica.
Jackie once gave a tour of the White House
to a Paris Match reporter and, coming across
Priscilla, apparently remarked in French,
“This is the girl who supposedly is sleeping
with my husband”.