Anthony Stanislas Radziwill

Anthony Stanisław Albert Radziwiłł was born on August 4, 1959, in Lausanne, Switzerland. He was the son of Caroline Lee Bouvier Canfield and Prince Stanisław Radziwiłł, a Polish aristocrat and diplomat. Radziwiłł was affiliated with the House of Radziwiłł, a noble family of Polish-Lithuanian origin. His maternal lineage included connections to prominent European royalty, being a descendant of King Frederick William I of Prussia through Princess Louise of Prussia, and of George I of Great Britain through his daughter Sophia Dorothea of Hanover.

Radziwiłł's father was his third spouse, socialite and actress Caroline Bouvier, making Radziwiłł a nephew of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, the former First Lady of the United States. This familial connection linked him to the Kennedy family, notable in American political and social circles. His relatives included Countess Isabella Potocka, who married Count Hubert d'Ornano of Sisley, and Mary Lee Ryan, his maternal cousin once removed.

Radziwiłł attended Millfield School and Choate Rosemary Hall, preparatory schools located in Connecticut. He completed his higher education at Boston University in 1982, earning a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism. In his personal life, he married Carole DiFalco, a former colleague at ABC and an Emmy Award-winning journalist, on August 27, 1994, on Long Island, New York.

His early career started at NBC Sports as an associate producer. He contributed to the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, where his work received an Emmy Award. The following year, he joined ABC News as a producer for Primetime Live. Radziwiłł's documentary work earned critical recognition, including a Peabody Award in 1990 for his investigation into the resurgence of Nazism in the United States. Posthumously, in 2000, the documentary "Cancer: Evolution to Revolution" was awarded a Peabody, and his work was nominated for two Emmy Awards: one for "Lenny Bruce: Swear To Tell The Truth" in 1999, and another for "Cancer: Evolution to Revolution" in 2000.

Radziwiłł was diagnosed with testicular cancer around 1989. Although initial treatment left him sterile and in remission, he experienced a relapse with new tumors emerging shortly before his wedding. His battle with metastatic cancer lasted for approximately five years, during which his wife, Carole, served as his primary caretaker. Despite his illness, Radziwiłł and his wife maintained their careers as journalists and lived in New York. Notably, he served as the best man at the wedding of his cousin John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette on September 21, 1996; Caroline Kennedy, John Jr.'s sister, was the matron of honor.

Anthony Radziwiłł died of cancer on August 10, 1999, six days after his 40th birthday. He died less than a month after the deaths of his cousin John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette, and her sister Lauren Bessette, who perished in a plane crash. He was survived by his wife, his mother, and a sister named Tina. In 2000, his mother, Lee Radziwiłł, and his widow, Carole Radziwiłł, established a fund in his memory to support emerging documentary filmmakers.

External references include his IMDb profile. His biography has been documented in works such as Carole Radziwiłł's memoir, "What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship and Love," published in 2005.