Jack Schlossberg is continuing his verbal assault on producerRyan Murphy'sLove Story.
FX's limited series documents the romance between Schlossberg's late uncle, John F. Kennedy Jr., and Carolyn Bessette before the couple died in a plane crash on July 16, 1999.
"Well, if you want to know someone who's never met anyone in my family, knows nothing about us, talk to Ryan Murphy," Schlossberg quickly responded when asked about it during an interview withCBS Sunday Morning's Mo Rocca this week. "I would just want people who do watch the show to watch it with one letter in mind, and that's a capital F for fiction. The guy knows nothing about what he's talking about, and he's making a ton of money on a grotesque display of someone else's life."
"I would hope that Mr. Murphy would donate some of the millions of dollars of profits that he's making to some of the causes that John championed throughout his life," Schlossberg continued. "Maybe he would donate some of that money to the JFK library to help keep President Kennedy's memory alive, but he's not. He's making money. This is not a documentary. And I'll leave it at that."
Back in June, Schlossberg, the son of JFK Jr.'s sister Caroline Kennedy, slammed the series, which debuted Feb. 12. At the time, he said the Kennedy family had not been consulted on the project, and he considered the series a way of profiting off his late uncle "in a grotesque way."
Rocca asked if there was something about this particular show that bothered Schlossberg, since the Kennedys have been depicted countless times on TV, in movies, and in books.
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"I think in the last year, two years, three years," Schlossberg answered, "partly because of [Health Secretary] RFK Jr., but also partly because Donald Trump has used JFK as sort of a human punching bag, both by renaming the Kennedy Center after himself, by doing a false reinvestigation into the assassination, and dismantling all the programs that he fought for."
Schlossberg, who's running for Congress in New York's 12th district, said the timing of the series bothers him.
"There's a lot of misinformation now and iconography being used about the Kennedy family, my family, at a time when we really can't afford to confuse people," Schlossberg said. "We really need to take every breath that we have to try to make things better. So, if Ryan Murphy really cares so much about the Kennedy family, my uncle John, maybe he would try to do something about getting Trump out of power."
Entertainment Weeklyhas reached out to reps for Murphy and the show.
Murphy has previously saidLove Storyis "very sympathetic" to the family.
Watch the full interview above.
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