Somehow, Aviva has made it worse.
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On Wednesday, BuzzFeed published an interview I had done with Carole Radziwill, a co-star of Bravo's The Real Housewives of New York City. In the story, Radziwill discussed her feud with fellow castmate Aviva Drescher, who accused her early in the season of having had a ghostwriter write her 2005 memoir, What Remains, in which she told the story of her life, her career at ABC News, and husband's illness and death. Her husband was Anthony Radziwill, whose mother, Lee, was the sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis; John F. Kennedy Jr. was his first cousin and best friend.
Their fight was a toxic one, and continues to this day. Literally, to this day: Aviva got in touch with me and wanted to rebut a few things Carole had said about her. We spoke Friday morning. In my opinion, she made things worse.
"As far as Carole and you quoting the 'word on the street,' the reason that I used the term 'word on the street' was because I wanted to protect my sources. I didn't want to name the sources. There was somebody at Simon & Schuster, who I did name and I did tell Carole the name of that person, and I'm happy to tell you: It's Tricia Boczkowski. I named that on-air, and it just didn't go in. She had told me. There was somebody very, very close to John F. Kennedy Jr. — very close — who told me."
(I emailed Tricia Boczkowski to ask her about this mess, and she has not responded.)
"It was her first book. She'd never written a book before. It's not implausible that Carole had a ghost, it's very plausible. It was a very important book that she wrote where she spoke about people who had died. It really was not her place to tell that story. It really wasn't her place. She did do that. And there were a lot of people who were very angry about her telling that story."
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