- Caroline Kennedy’s son, Jack Schlossberg, recently slammed Ryan Murphy’s depiction of his late uncle, John F. Kennedy Jr., on his FX series, Love Story.
- During an interview on CBS Sunday Morning, Jack claimed Ryan was “making a ton of money on a grotesque display of someone else’s life.”
- Ryan previously dismissed Jack’s claims on California Governor Gavin Newsom’s podcast, saying, “I thought it was an odd choice to be mad about your relative that you really don’t remember.”
Jack Schlossberg has entered the chat on Ryan Murphy’s latest anthology series, Love Story—and he’s not a fan. The political commentator has taken issue with the FX show (which is loosely inspired by Jack’s late uncle and aunt, John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette), claiming it is a “grotesque display” of their lives before their tragic passing in 1999.
During an interview with CBS Sunday Morning on March 1, Jack called Ryan out for producing a show that is “fiction with a capital ‘F.’”
“If you want to know someone who’s never met anyone in my family, knows nothing about us, talk to Ryan Murphy,” Jack said, adding, “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.”
Though the show has revealed it’s based on real events with fictionalized scenes for dramatic effect, Jack called Ryan out for making millions off his famous family’s likeness.
“I would hope that Mr. Murphy would donate some of the millions of dollars of profits that he’s making to maybe some of the causes that John championed throughout his life,” Jack explained during the interview, reiterating the same frustration he shared about the series in July 2025. At the time, Jack also slammed Ryan on social media for not consulting any of JFK Jr.’s family members before making the show.
Elsewhere during the CBS interview, Jack urged the award-winning producer to donate some of the profits made from Love Story to “the JFK library to help keep President Kennedy’s memory alive.”
Last summer, Ryan clapped back at Jack’s criticism during an appearance on California Governor Gavin Newsom’s podcast, saying, “I thought it was an odd choice to be mad about your relative that you really don’t remember.”
This sent Jack over the edge, as he screenshotted the quote and listed notable moments he shared with his late family members in a since-deleted Instagram post.
“Hey @ryanmurphyproductions: My earliest memories are of John calling me Jackolatern and ‘the nudist,’ picking me up from school, his Pontiac convertible. I remember being the ring bearer at his wedding and the day he died. I remember Wyclef singing at his funeral. More memories are passed down from stories—like the time he locked himself out of a car in an intersection and asked the guy screaming at him if he could borrow a golf club to smash the window to get the keys, and then did it,” he wrote at the time.
Sarah Pidgeon, who portrays Jack’s aunt Carolyn Bessette in the series, admitted she empathized with the Kennedys’ emotions surrounding the show in conversation with The Hollywood Reporter published last month.
“I don’t know what it’s like to have a TV show or a book or movie written about my family, and I understand the sensitivities. He has every right to share how he feels about it,” she said of Jack’s initial comments.
She continued, “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. That was always part of my consciousness. I hope that if they do watch it, they feel that we led with respect and honor for John and Carolyn—that’s my hope.”
