The original post: /r/television by /u/Chic_Coquillage777 on 2026-03-05 20:28:34+00:00.

No one in media has recently interviewed Carole.

TLDR:

~Real Housewife Carole Radziwill appears in Epstein files; Ghislaine Maxwell calls her one of her closest friends. No one in media has asked her about it, she has not condemned Ghislaine or their association, she has lied and minimized it to people on twitter, and not said one word about the victims, just promotes herself. But good news out this week! She’ll be back on the newest season of Real Housewives, corporate media profiteering off the curiosity of the unaddressed association, and no ever seemingly has to answer any questions, there are no consequences, associates to the head of the line~

Carole Difalco was an ordinary girl from a working class family in suburban NY, who broke into the exciting world of journalism in the late 80s, after college. She started interning in post-production with ABC, and eventually was part of teams that won Emmys. At 27, she was part of Peter Jennings’ team when they won a Peabody Award in 1990 for the two part report on “Guns.”

Through her work at ABC, she met Anthony Radziwill, four years her senior. She married Radziwill in 1994. Anthony worked as a TV producer, was nominated for Emmys, and had won a Peabody in 1990, like Carole. He also had been struggling with a rare cancer since his diagnosis in 1989.

The Radziwill family was historically one of the wealthiest and most powerful families in 15th-16th century Europe. They had been gifted royal titles as honors by two Roman Emperors in the 1500s, largely political moves, in recognition of the family’s money and power. By the 20th century, those honorary royal titles had been nullified, and the family fortune had largely vanished. Later generations have relied on reputation to stay in elite circles, rather than any kind of inherited wealth. While Carole’s husband, Anthony, maintained an aristocratic lifestyle, his financial standing was primarily built on his own professional career and support from the Kennedy family.

Anthony’s mother was Lee Bouvier Radziwill, sister of Jackie Kennedy Onassis. Lee was a big personality. Carole reportedly did not plan a second of her own wedding, which was at Lee’s. The sisters had a rivalry all their lives, right until the end when Jackie notably left Lee nothing in her will, but their boys loved each other. They each stood up for the other as best man at their respective weddings, Anthony’s to Carole in ‘94, and in 1997, JFK Jr. married Carolyn Bessette.

In July 1999, JFK Jr, Carolyn, and her sister, tragically died in a plane crash, in a private plane John himself had been flying. One month later, after battling the cancer his entire marriage, Anthony also tragically died, on August 10th.

In the wake of losing her husband, that little girl from a working class family in suburban NY, undoubtedly wondered how to stay in the world she had inexplicably found herself in, amongst American and European royalty. She has spoken about spending time at Diane Sawyer’s with Oprah after her husband had passed. By merits of her job and connections through her marriage, Carole had found herself in the elite circles.

Although her mother-in-law did not bequeath her anything in her will, she was seen to be in her company a few times before she passed. Carole did not seem to keep ties with any other Kennedy’s.

Shortly after her husband passed, Carole spent some time in London, she said to avoid her grief, and to inter his ashes there. She returned to again London in August 2000, one year after his passing, reportedly to finalize the process.

She continued her career working with ABC, traveling the world as a journalist, Cambodia, Israel, India, Haiti. She spent six weeks in Afghanistan following 9/11, and in 2002, she exited ABC to work on her memoir.

Her memoir was published in 2005, and describes her experience with losing her husband, JFK Jr, and Carolyn, who she describes as her cousins and best friends. It is by most accounts a beautifully written book about loss, which became a bestseller. Critics of Carole call her a grifter, who, while her husband had had a lifetime relationship, exaggerated her own friendship with the Kennedys, with no one left to refute it. Carole herself reports Carolyn wanted them to be “secret friends,” and that’s why perhaps other people wouldn’t realize they had been so close. There are only three known photos of Carole and Carolyn, two paparazzi photos from the same moment on a NY sidewalk, and from Carolyn and John’s wedding, one of Anthony and Carolyn, and the back of Carole’s head.

In 2006, she started contributing a monthly column titled “Lunch Dates” to Glamour Magazine, where she would have lunch with celebrities and interview them. At some point, she was apparently back in London, and interviewed Prince Andrew for the October issue.

She then was splitting her time between LA and NY.

In 2011, Andy Cohen, who was a friend, approached her to join the Real Housewives of New York. She joined as a main cast member in Season 5, premiering in 2012, and departed after Season 10, in 2018. During her time on the show, she was known for having an acerbic wit, which she unleashed viciously in her confessionals, but never really to anyone’s face. She drove fellow cast member Countess Luann crazy with her too cool for you mean girl behavior, the idea that her “title of princess” beat Luann’s “title of countess,” and when she started dating Luann’s niece’s recent ex, who was thirty years younger than Carole. She was shown campaigning for Hillary. Ugly accusations that her book had been written by a ghostwriter plagued her in Season 2. She released her second book to less enthusiastic reviews. She subsequently confused and angered fans in her last season by seeming to be tight friends on camera with one well liked castmate, but at the reunion, claiming she had never really been her friend. Critics in the fandom say she is the epitome of Gone Girl’s Cool Girl.

At the time of her exit from Real Housewives, Carol said that she was leaving to return to journalism, which she thus far has not. She and Andy Cohen battled publicly, and she derided the show as a “cult” and “toxic” and said she couldn’t set aside her nature as a journalist to be in such contrived situations as on the show. She has implied it is beneath her.

In July 2020, Ghislaine Maxwell was taken into custody, eventually being convicted in 2022.

Since then, fans have begun noticing photos of Carole with Ghislaine in the archives of society events over the years. Her name and contact info appears in Epstein’s “little black book.”

Then, someone noticed that the name given credit for Carole’s author photo for her first book was Ghislaine Maxwell. Carole still did not release a public statement.

This past fall though, she took to twitter and responded to some individual questions, writing “I knew her socially she had a real camera (it was 2004 no one carried cameras) anyway l’d had a pro photo shoot but the pics were bad. I asked her if she’d take the picture & she said sure. In hindsight was it odd she had a camera? I guess but who knew?! Subscribe to my Substack!”

Adding, “If people are interested but it’s not that compelling of a story & only in hindsight, knowing what we now know, does it feels creepy - to me too!

Back in ‘05 she seemed like just another girl about town. She had a 1000 friends. Maybe I’ll write about it. thanks for the idea! 😘”

And “If people are interested but I never knew epstein and the “connection” to maxwell is not very interesting we met at a socail event in NY, but sure.

Go subscribe to my Substack! Link is in my IG bio……thanks!!!”

She made sure to drop her substack link a few times between.

Substack is a subscription-based site that allows writers and other content creators to publish content directly to subscribers’ inboxes. It’s kinda like a cross between a blog and a newsletter, but you have to pay to have access to the particular content creator.

Not directly addressing, but aiming for profiteering.

Her critics also criticized her minimizing the world’s worst modern child sex trafficking crimes, merely labeling them as “creepy.”

Then in November last fall, she made her first appearance back with Bravo cast members since she left, appearing at Bravocon, having made amends with Cohen.

This winter, people have continued to make noise. Earlier this year, someone made a post and pointed out that Carole had been in photos with Ghislaine, at Ghislaine’s own home - in 2007 - two years after Epstein’s first conviction. That she was a journalist. That she must have known who Epstein was.

Then a Reddit sleuth pointed out another photo taken of RFK Jr and others in 2014 at Ghislaine’s home appears to show a framed photo of Carole on Ghislaine’s bookshelf.

Then someone reminded folks of the podcast interview Carole had given in 2020, especially this part where she spoke of Ghislaine when asked about the photos. She said she had traveled to London over the holidays, in December 1999. She said she had a mutual friend named Lisa with Ghislaine - hadn’t know her, but Ghislaine called her out of the blue, and said she had friends in London (when in fact, her reputation had quite suffered there) and that she’d have some friends call her. About a half hour later, Carole says, Prince Andrew called and asked her out. She described the two dates they had, detailing the car he drove, and remaining seemingly impressed tha…

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