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To everyone else, John F. Kennedy Jr. may have been American royalty, but to RoseMarie Terenzio he was an entitled nuisance - and she wasn't afraid to let him know it. RoseMarie was his personal assistant, his publicist, and one of his closest confidantes during the last five years of his life. In this, her first memoir, she bravely recounts her own Fairy Tale Interrupted, describing the unlikely friendship between a blue-collar girl from the Bronx and John F. Kennedy Jr. Funny, moving, and fresh, her memoir is a unique account by the woman who was with him through dating, politics, the paparazzi, and his marriage to Carolyn Bessette. Her street smarts, paired with her loyalty, candor, and relentless work ethic, made her the trusted insider to America's most famous man.
About the Author
RoseMarie Terenzio is the author of the New York Times best selling book "Fairy Tale Interrupted: A Memoir of Life, Love and Loss. " She has worked in the fields of entertainment, politics, fashion and publishing in a public relations and marketing capacity for over a decade. Ms. Terenzio worked with John F. Kennedy, Jr. from 1994 until his death in 1999. She was Kennedy's executive assistant and oversaw his press and philanthropic causes. Additionally, she oversaw the marketing and publicity departments of George magazine. After Kennedy's death in 1999, she worked with Caroline Kennedy on resolving John F. Kennedy, Jr. 's estate until 2000. In 2000, Ms. Terenzio was hired by Vice President Al Gore's presidential campaign to work on celebrity outreach. After that, she booked talent for and co-produced the New York Magazine Awards which aired on WNBC-TV. Ms. Terenzio then went to work with PR Consulting to oversee events for Narciso Rodriguez, Hermes and Viktor & Rolf. She expanded her public relations skills into talent management, booking actors on shows such as Sex and the City and Law & Order and various Broadway and off-Broadway shows. In 2003, Terenzio produced the off-Broadway play, "Touch" starring Tom Everett Scott with the Women's Project and Productions which received an extremely favorable review in The New York Times. Ms. Terenzio founded RMT PR Management, a public relations and talent management firm in New York City in 2004. The firm's clients include Nobu restaurants, Gemini 14 hair salon, Jim McLean Golf Schools, Me & Ro jewelry, James Carville and Paul Begala, relationship expert, Steven Santagati, several fiction and non-fiction books and the Hope & Heroes Children's Cancer Fund at Columbia University Medical Center, among others.RoseMarie Terenzio serves on the board of Reaching Up, a non-profit organization founded by John F. Kennedy, Jr. in 1998 and as an advisory board member at Women's Project and Productions.Ms. Terenzio's interests include politics, media and fashion. She loves cooking and the beach and she's a great mimic.
