‘Love Story’ Producers Brad Simpson and Nina Jacobson on Tackling Final Episode With JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette’s Fateful Flight: ‘We Didn’t Want to Be Gratuitous’

Mar 27, 2026 10:40am PT ‘Love Story’ Producers Brad Simpson and Nina Jacobson on Tackling Final Episode With JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette’s Fateful Flight: ‘We Didn’t Want to Be Gratuitous’

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Brad Simpson and Nina Jacobson at FX's "Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette" Red Carpet Premiere held at Carnegie Hall on February 03, 2026 in New York, New York. (Photo by Adela Loconte/Variety via Getty Images)

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When veteran film producers Brad Simpson and Nina Jacobson decided to turn their lens to TV, their first effort turned out to be 2016’s “American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson” in partnership with Ryan Murphy and FX. A decade later, the pair are riding high on the success of another widely praised limited series, “Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette,” and they’re still in business with Murphy and FX.

On the heels of the powerful final episode of “Love Story,” which aired March 26, Jacobson and Simpson sat with Variety’s “Strictly Business” podcast for a wide-ranging conversation about revisiting the 1990s with the legend of JFK Jr. and his fairy tale romance with Carolyn Bessette.