Anthony Stanislas Radziwill

alt=A photograph from 1962 depicting Anthony Radziwill in the company of John F. Kennedy and his family Anthony Radziwill (third child from left) with the late president John F. Kennedy and his family in 1962 Prince Anthony Stanisław Albert Radziwiłł (; August 4, 1959 – August 10, 1999) was a Swiss-born American television executive and filmmaker.

He was the son of Caroline Lee Bouvier Canfield and Polish aristocrat and diplomat Prince Stanisław Radziwiłł, and a nephew of former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

Early life and education Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, In New York, he was a member of the Knickerbocker Club.

Career Radziwiłł's career began at NBC Sports, as an associate producer. During the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, he contributed Emmy Award-winning work. In 1989, he joined ABC News as a television producer for Primetime Live. In 1990, he won the Peabody Award for an investigation on the resurgence of Nazism in the United States. Posthumously, in 2000, Cancer: Evolution to Revolution was awarded a Peabody. His work was nominated for two Emmy's: Outstanding non-fiction special for Lenny Bruce: Swear To Tell The Truth in 1999 and Outstanding achievement in non-fiction programming for Cancer: Evolution to Revolution in 2000

Illness Around 1989 he was diagnosed with testicular cancer and underwent treatment which left him sterile but in apparent remission. However, shortly before his wedding, new tumors emerged. Radziwiłł battled metastasizing cancer throughout his five years of marriage, with his wife, Carole, serving as his primary caretaker through a succession of oncologists, hospitals, operations, and experimental treatments.

The couple lived in New York, and both Radziwiłł and Carole tried to maintain their careers as journalists between his bouts of hospitalization.

Death Radziwiłł died of cancer on August 10, 1999, six days after his 40th birthday, and less than a month after his cousin John Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette, and her sister Lauren Bessette predeceased him in a plane crash. He was survived by his wife, his mother, his sister Tina, and his older half brother, John. His body was cremated, ashes taken to Nesvizh and interred in the Radziwiłłs' family crypt in the Corpus Christi Church.

In 2000, his mother, Lee Radziwiłł, and widow, Carole Radziwiłł, set up a fund in his name to help emerging documentary filmmakers.

In popular culture Radziwill is portrayed by Erich Bergen in Ryan Murphy's 2026 series Love Story.

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