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"George" magazine seeing surge in collectibility among JFK Jr. FX show
Magazines have been somewhat collectible for a while, but we've never seen anything in the non-sports space like we are seeing with "George" Magazine.
Boosted by FX's anthology series, "Love Story," based on the romance of JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette, 70 copies of JFK Jr.'s defunct and unsuccessful play into publishing sold on eBay on Thursday alone.
And since the show began on Feb. 12, more than 115 copies of the inaugural issue from Sept. 2005 with Cindy Crawford dressed as George Washington on the cover, have sold in the $200 to $400 range. One copy, that closed on March 27, had an astounding 71 bids.
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When John F. Kennedy Jr. co-founded a political magazine in 1995, nobody knew how it would be received. Marrying current affairs and pop culture with the tagline "not just politics as usual," George was a creative risk — yet immediately after launching with supermodel Cindy Crawford on the cover, it made a splash.
"I recognized not only the reader appeal, but also the advertiser interest it would generate," David Pecker, the then-Hachette publishing CEO, said in an oral history of George published by The Hollywood Reporter. "The first issue sold out with hundreds of ad pages, more than the September issue of Vogue at the time."
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Who is Michael J. Berman, who founded the magazine George with JFK Jr?
Berman – played by Michael Nathanson in Ryan Murphy’s Love Story – never reconciled with the Kennedy scion after a serious falling out in 1997
The pair, who met as undergraduates at Brown University, co-founded the magazine in 1995. Two years later, Berman would sell his stake in the magazine and quit, following disagreements and even a reported physical altercation with JFK Jr. The magazine folded in 2001.
Here’s what to know about Berman, played by Michael Nathanson in Love Story.
Michael J. Berman owned the Manhattan-based PR firm PR/NY, which he sold in order to focus his full attention on George. He and John F. Kennedy Jr held equal shares in the venture, with JFK Jr serving as the magazine’s editor-in-chief and Berman as executive publisher, per People.
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