


Their very intimate relationship would last from those school days to Billings even having a room in the Kennedy White House – distressing for the first lady – to the day of Kennedy's assassination.ĭetails of Lem Billings and JFK's three decade relationship are revealed in 'Robert F. They met in 1933 in their sophomore year at Choate Rosemary Hall, the exclusive Connecticut prep school, when both were teenagers, working together on their class's yearbook, and Billings instantly became attracted sexually and otherwise to the handsome scion of America's self-styled royal family. While JFK is legendarily known as a master womanizer who frequently cheated on his first lady, his curious three-decades long intimate friendship with Billings suggests more than a simple bromance. And seated close to Kennedy is his shirtless, tanned and oiled best friend forever, his very gay chum, Kirk LeMoyne 'Lem' Billings. Billings reportedly told Kennedy of his romantic intentions in prep school (JFK pictured chatting with Marilyn Monroe and Robert F Kennedy)Īmong the snapshots is one that shows a handsome pre-presidential Kennedy sunning himself, sprawled on a chaise at Patriarch Joe Kennedy's Palm Beach estate. JFK was famous for his womanizing habits, but one of his closest relationships was with Lem Billings. After JFK's assassination, Billings had romantic feelings for JFK's nephew, Bobby Kennedy Jr.They remained close even after the election, despite warnings from JFK's advisers who thought Russian agents could use the relationship as blackmail.But one point Billings confided that his friendship with the future president 'included oral sex, with Jack always on the receiving end'.The future president wrote back 'I'm not that kind of boy'.Billings told JFK about his romantic intentions toward him in a love note written on a piece of toilet paper at their elite Connecticut boarding school.

One of his closest relationships was with his gay best friend and prep school roommate Lem Billings.Kennedy was revered as the 35th president president but quietly chided for his womanizing Kennedy and his gay friend - from prep school to the White House - where pal had his own room, much to Jackie's chagrin EXCLUSIVE: More than a bromance - the intimate relationship between John F.
