Jack Schlossberg blasts ‘Love Story’ as ‘grotesque’ show about uncle JFK Jr.

Jack Schlossberg is doubling down on his criticism of the hit show “Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette.“

The 33-year-old aspiring New York congressman – the son of Caroline Kennedy, the only surviving daughter of President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis – blasted the Ryan Murphy-produced FX series in a “CBS Sunday Morning” interview released March 1 for dramatizing his late uncle’s life.

“If you want to know someone who’s never met anyone in my family, knows nothing about us, talk to Ryan Murphy. I would just want people who do watch the show to watch it with one letter in mind, and that’s a capital ‘F’ for fiction,” Schlossberg told correspondent Mo Rocca.

He continued, “The guy knows nothing about what he’s talking about, and he’s making a ton of money on a grotesque display of someone else’s life.”

Schlossberg suggested Murphy donate his profits to “some of the causes that John championed throughout his life,” or the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum “to help keep President Kennedy’s memory alive.”

Schlossberg said, “He’s making money. This is not a documentary. And I’ll leave it at that.”

He fired one final shot by saying, “If Ryan Murphy really cares so much about the Kennedy family, my uncle John, maybe he would try to do something about getting Trump out of power.”

USA TODAY has reached out to reps for the show and Murphy for comment.

“Love Story,” the first installment in Murphy’s anthology, and its breakout stars Sarah Pidgeon (who plays Carolyn Bessette) and Paul Anthony Kelly (JFK Jr.) have taken the internet by storm since its Feb. 12 release. The limited series, inspired by Elizabeth Beller’s biography “Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, airs Thursdays on FX and comes out on Hulu the following day.

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Schlossberg has been vocal about his issues with “Love Story” since 2025, at one point commenting on first-look photos of the cast that were shared in June: “HEY RYAN — admiration for John is great but maybe consider DONATING PROFITS TO THE KENNEDY LIBRARY thanks.”

The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston “is dedicated to the memory of our nation’s thirty-fifth president” and “portrays the life, leadership, and legacy of President Kennedy,” according to its website.

Murphy replied at the time, “I absolutely will.”

Speaking on California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s podcast the following month, Murphy admitted that Schlossberg’s criticism was “an odd, dark moment.”

“The thing that I was not prepared for was sort of the Kennedy firestorm, which I thought was very strange,” Murphy said. “It’s very sympathetic, by the way. It’s a love story; it’s not a takedown. It’s a story about youth taken too soon and idealism, things that we need more in politics.”

He continued, “Then you have a member of the family speaking out. I took it with a grain of salt; it’s a younger generation.” Murphy also noted that of all the films and shows about the Kennedys, “not one has ever been authorized by the family.”

“I never even thought they wanted to do that,” Murphy said.

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Executive Producer Brad Simpson emphasized in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter earlier this year that “Love Story” was made “with sincerity” in regards to a real-life tragedy. (JFK Jr., Bessette and her sister Lauren died July 16, 1999, when a plane piloted by Kennedy Jr. crashed.)

“For all of us who are making TV shows based on real events, you have to consider your ethical obligation to the family members and approach it with love and kindness,” Simpson said.

EP Nina Jacobson confirmed in the interview that the team did not have contact with the Kennedy family.

She said, “Generally speaking, we don’t engage with the people who are public figures, because you end up either feeling obligated to honor something that they ask you, ‘Please portray me this way, but not that way,’ or you feel that, that you’re having competing versions.”

Pidgeon sympathized with Schlossberg as she said, “He has every right to share how he feels about it.”

She added, “We were approaching this with integrity and respect, and I think we were successful in that, but we were also understanding that these weren’t just real people — but they also have family and friends still with us today, and that their legacy reverberates and lives on through them as well.”

The “Love Story” finale is scheduled to air on March 26.

Contributing: Jay Stahl, USA TODAY

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