Manhattan socialites had a plan to extort $250,000 out of JFK
Simon Metrik was fed up.
The Manhattan lawyer had spent most of 1961 providing round-the-clock legal counsel to Alicia Corning Clark, a self-proclaimed actress and artist who was fixated on obtaining a $10 million inheritance after her wealthy husband of less than two weeks died in his sleep.
Metrik had listened to her complain about the delays in getting her money.
He had nodded along, in the wake of her husband's death, as she obsessed over jewels she wanted to buy and prepared for a visit by her paramour, a well-known French actor.
And he averted what could have been a national crisis — by talking her out of a plan to extort $250,000 from President John F. Kennedy's father over an affair she allegedly had with the commander in chief.
But Metrik dropped Clark as a client in December 1961 after a final argument in which she made an anti-Semitic remark to him. (Metrik in an earlier magazine interview said she was Jewish and that was why JFK's father pressured him not to marry her.)
He then sued her for $1.2 million in legal fees and provided a bill of particulars that described, with extensive details, the services he provided Clark.
DNAinfo New York exclusively reported Monday that the bill of particulars has become a key document for the administrator of Clark's estate, who is trying to determine if she had a love child with President Kennedy.
Read the entire bill of particulars below, including the last page, which talks about Clark's plans to shake down JFK's dad for money.
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