Lauren Bessette

Lauren Bessette

Infobox Person
name = Lauren Bessette



caption =
birth_date = birth date|1964|11|05|mf=y
birth_place = White Plains, New York
death_date = death date and age|1999|07|16|1964|11|05|mf=y
death_place = Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Martha's Vineyard
other_names = Lauren Gail Bessette
occupation = Investment banker
nationality = American
relations = Carolyn Bessette Kennedy
John F. Kennedy, Jr.

Lauren Gail Bessette (November 5, 1964 – July 16, 1999) was an American investment banker and the sister of Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy, Jr..

Biography

Bessette was born in White Plains, Westchester County, New York, thedaughter of William J. Bessette and his wife, Ann (née Messina). Bessette had a twin sister, Lisa Ann. Raised in Greenwich, Connecticut, she attended William Smith College in New York, majoring in economics. She joined the Treasury staff of Morgan Stanley Group after graduation. Later, she received her Master of Business Administration degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. After Wharton, she returned to Morgan Stanley Dean Witter in Manhattan, specializing in Asian financial markets. She served as a vice president in senior investment banking for nearly six years prior to her death. [cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/US/9907/19/lauren.bessette.obit/|title=Lauren Bessette excelled as N.Y. investment banker|date=2001|publisher=CNN.com|accessdate=2008-05-22]

Death

On July 16, 1999, Bessette died at age 34 along with her sister Carolyn and brother-in-law John F. Kennedy, Jr., when an aircraft Kennedy was piloting crashed into the sea near Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. [cite news|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/jfkjr/stories/kennedy072299.htm|title= Bodies of Kennedy, Bessettes Brought to Shore|last=Duke|first=Lynne|date=1999-07-22|publisher="Washington Post"|accessdate=2008-05-22] Their ashes were scattered at sea on July 22, 1999. [cite news|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/jfkjr/stories/kennedy072399.htm|title=Kennedy, Bessettes Given Shipboard Rites|last=Gellman |first=Barton |coauthors=Ferdinand, Pamela |date=1999-07-23|publisher="Washington Post"|pages=A1|accessdate=2008-05-22]

Wrongful-death lawsuit

Lauren's mother, Ann Messina Freeman (she had divorced her husband several years earlier, and remarried to Dr. Richard Freeman, an orthopedic surgeon), received permission from the Manhattan court to become the administrator of her daughter's estate; she later successfully sued the Kennedy estate for wrongful death with a $15,000,000 out-of-court settlement. Her ashes were scattered at sea off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, along with her brother-in-law JFK Jr and sister Carolyn, in a funeral service on the Navy's USS Briscoe (DD-977), one of the ships sent to search for the missing trio.

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Persondata
NAME= Bessette, Lauren
ALTERNATIVE NAMES= Bessette, Lauren Gail
SHORT DESCRIPTION= Investment banker
DATE OF BIRTH= November 5, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH= White Plains, New York
DATE OF DEATH= July 16, 1999
PLACE OF DEATH= Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Martha's Vineyard


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