1951 meets young John F. Kennedy
31 January 61 describes an early relationship with John F. Kennedy in an interview with the Italian weekly Le Ore and declares she could have been the first lady. The FBI attaché in Rome tells J. Edgar Hoover that the article indicates that Alicia “was considering the release of further information.”
February 61 columnist Walter Winchell headlines: “Europe hussing and so am I over the interview in a Milan magazine quoting Edmund Purdom’s estranged wife, Alicia, as stating she could have been America’s First Lady. She was quoted as saying she was engaged to JFK before he married Jacqueline. She blames Joe Kennedy for the break-up. As soon as she gets her divorce, she plans to marry Prince Markantonio Borghese...”
Summer 63 Edgar J. Hoover warns President Kennedy that she could be named in a disciplinary suit against her lawyers Simon Metrik and Jacob W. Friedman. Allegedly there is proof that she became pregnant by Kennedy in 1951.
December 77 the press reveals that J. Edgar Hoover told then-Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy in 1963 that the FBI had information his brother John had paid a $500,000 settlement and had court records sealed in a lawsuit brought by a woman who claimed to have been engaged to marry the former President in 1951. Allegedly the $500,000 was paid to drop the case in 1961. Alicia can’t be reached for comment.