Karin Adele Gunilla von Post Miller (10 July 1932 – 14 October 2011) was a Swedish aristocrat noted for a book outlining an

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with then-Senator

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in the 1950s, titled "Love, Jack", published in 1997. In 2010, she auctioned letters written by Kennedy to her. Kennedy met Gunilla von Post one month before his marriage to Jacqueline Lee Bouvier during the summer of 1953 while on holiday on the

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. In 2015, a leather jacket that had once belonged to Kennedy and which he had left with von Post was unearthed by the senior chaplain of

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. He then brought it to a November 2015 filming of an episode of the ''

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'' at

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, where it was valued in excess of £100,000

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(circa $152,000 US dollars) by one of the show's expert appraisers,

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Post, Gunilla 1932 births 2011 deaths Mistresses of John F. Kennedy Swedish nobility Swedish women writers Swedish memoirists Women memoirists Writers from Stockholm