37 Facts About Karyn Kupcinet

Karyn Kupcinet was the daughter of Chicago newspaper columnist and television personality Irv Kupcinet, and the sister of television director and producer Jerry Kupcinet.

In 1992, after NBC's Today program briefly referred via a caption to her alleged connection to the assassination, Irv Karyn Kupcinet described the broadcast as "an atrocious outrage" and "calumny".

Karyn Kupcinet was born Roberta Lynn Kupcinet in Chicago, Illinois, to Irv Kupcinet, a sportswriter for the Chicago Daily Times, and his wife, Esther Kupcinet.

Karyn Kupcinet's younger brother, Jerry Kupcinet, was a director and producer in television.

Karyn Kupcinet made her acting debut at age 13 in the Chicago production of Anniversary Waltz and went on to attend Pine Manor College for a semester, eventually studying at the Actors Studio in New York City.

Karyn Kupcinet worked as a model and stage actress before she arrived in Hollywood.

Karyn Kupcinet made her debut on the public stage at just five and a half months old as a model, her mother arranging for her to appear in baby clothing and accessories advertisements.

Karyn Kupcinet made her professional acting debut in 1955 at age 13 in the Chicago production of 'Anniversary Waltz' by Jerome Chodorov.

Karyn Kupcinet attended the Francis W Parker School in Chicago, starring in the school production of Pygmalion and graduating in the class of 1958.

Karyn Kupcinet studied at Pine Manor College, was invited to join the production of Wozzyck with the Harvard University Drama Club before heading to New York to study at the Actor's Studio under Lee Strasberg, Herbert Bergoff, Marc Daniels and Martha Graham.

Karyn Kupcinet boosted her image and supplemented her income modelling and appeared regularly on stage, stage was her forte, 1962 was a busy year; she appeared in the Laguna Beach Summer Theatre production of 'The Miracle Worker'.

Karyn Kupcinet had a relationship with Skip Ward, whom she met on the series in which they both appeared.

However, the relationship was problematic due to Karyn Kupcinet wanting to make the relationship exclusive.

In turn, Karyn Kupcinet began spying on Prine and his new girlfriend.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department later determined Karyn Kupcinet had delivered threatening and profane messages, consisting of words and letters she had cut out of magazines, to Prine and herself.

Karyn Kupcinet had longstanding issues with weight, which started after she began taking diet pills in high school.

The pressure to stay thin intensified after Karyn Kupcinet arrived in Hollywood, and she soon began abusing diet pills along with other prescription drugs.

On November 28,1963, Karyn Kupcinet had dinner with future Lost in Space cast member Mark Goddard and his wife, Marcia Rogers Goddard, at their house on Coldwater Canyon Drive in Beverly Hills.

The couple later reported that Karyn Kupcinet only toyed with her food during the meal and avoided eating.

Karyn Kupcinet was visited by freelance writer Edward Stephen Rubin shortly afterward.

Rubin and Hathaway told detectives the three of them watched television, including The Danny Kaye Show, and drank coffee until Karyn Kupcinet fell asleep next to them on the couch.

Investigators from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department determined that the story Karyn Kupcinet had told the Goddards about an abandoned baby on her doorstep, which she had told Prine by telephone, was false.

The Los Angeles Sheriff's Office told FBI director J Edgar Hoover that they felt Karyn had been taking a shower immediately preceding her death and had likely answered a fateful knock at the door, given the late hour and fact she opened the door indicated that she knew and trusted that person.

In 1988, Karyn Kupcinet's father published a memoir in which he revealed that he and his wife Essee believed that Prine had nothing to do with their daughter's murder.

Karyn Kupcinet was suspicious of a person, still alive when he wrote his memoir, who had no connection to Prine.

Karyn Kupcinet inquired in her building and learned an apartment was vacant.

Karyn Kupcinet was in the bedroom of his apartment with a girl friend, who later told police that they 'heard some sought of commotion outside the apartment and it sounded like a lot of people were running up and down stairs'.

Karyn Kupcinet added that a short time later someone knocked on the door.

Karyn Kupcinet answered it, she said, 'and came right back to the bedroom and made no comment.

Jones alleged that "Karyn Kupcinet" had attempted to warn someone of the impending assassination after being given this information by her father Irv, who himself had allegedly been given advance notice by Jack Ruby, the Dallas nightclub owner who fatally shot Kennedy's accused assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald.

Jones speculated Karyn Kupcinet had been murdered by representatives of the Italian-American Mafia as a message to her father to remain silent about why Kennedy and Oswald had been shot.

Irv Karyn Kupcinet denied that he or his daughter had prior knowledge of the assassination or of Oswald's death.

Karyn Kupcinet reportedly seemed upset about media coverage of the shootings while in Palm Springs.

Karyn Kupcinet did not reveal any foreknowledge of the events.

Irv Karyn Kupcinet had been friends with Sam Giancana, Tony Accardo and other Mafia dons for decades; as such, it isn't surprising that conspiracy theories surfaced linking the two events.

Karyn Kupcinet did die violently in a Hollywood murder case still unsolved.

Irv and Essee Karyn Kupcinet established a playhouse at Shimer College in honor of their daughter.