John F. Kennedy Jr. asked the Madonna to dress up as his mother, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, for the cover of his magazine, George, but Madonna declined, insisting she would "never do [Jackie O] justice," according to a new book, "Fair Tale Interrupted," written by his assistant, RoseMarie Terenzio. Madonna wrote this letter turning down John Kennedy Jr.’s offer to pose as his mom for George magazine.
In the summer of 1996, JFK Jr. asked Terenzio who should grace the cover of his September "Women in Politics" issue. Terenzio suggested then-First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, but JFK Jr., who co-founded the magazine in 1995, had a different idea. "I think we should dress Madonna up as my mother," he said. "Wouldn’t that be a riot?" Terenzio thought he was joking. She warned him it would create a media "s--tstorm." And although Terenzio insists it wasn't among her concerns, the cover would have undoubtedly raised eyebrows given JFK Jr.'s once-rumored romance with Madonna, who was often compared to his father's reputed paramour, Marilyn Monroe. "If it doesn’t bother me, why should it bother anyone else?" Kennedy said. So they drafted a letter to Madonna asking her to pose as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. The next day, Madonna faxed her handwritten response, flirtatiously addressed to Johnny Boy. "My eyebrows aren't thick enough, for one," she offered. "When you want me to portray Eva Braun or Pamela Harriman, I might say yes!" she wrote, referring, bizarrely, to Hitler’s mistress and the British socialite who married New York Gov. W. Averell Harriman and Winston Churchill’s son Randolph.
JFK Jr. eventually tapped actress Drew Barrymore for the cover, portraying, ironically, Monroe in her legendary white halter dress singing "Happy Birthday, Mr. President."
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