According to Terenzio, Bessette-Kennedy gifted her the all-over leopard print coat as a last-minute outfit fix before Terenzio was heading out for a date. The coat is being offered with a low estimate of US$20,000.

Not because of the man, who she thinks was “in a band,” but because her boss’s wife, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, let her borrow a faux-leopard coat to wear for the occasion—then insisted she keep it. Next month,

It was just announced that Sotheby's is set to auction off some of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy’s most famous coats.

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Bessette-Kennedy’s offerings—two coats and a jacket—were gifted to the auction house by the former publicist’s close friend, RoseMarie Terenzio, who acted as John F. Kennedy Jr.’s executive assistant in the ’90s.