Kim K Owns a Curse: Jackie's Watch Found Her
The strangest transaction in recent celebrity history has a paper trail, a ghost story, and Kim Kardashian's name on the receipt — which is somehow the least surprising part.
Kim K Owns a Curse: Jackie's Watch Found Her
The strangest transaction in recent celebrity history has a paper trail, a ghost story, and Kim Kardashian's name on the receipt — which is somehow the least surprising part.
Carole Radziwill, former *Real Housewives of New York* cast member and a woman who has been adjacent to American aristocracy long enough to know better, once owned Jacqueline Kennedy's Cartier watch. Not a replica. The watch. She inherited it, wore it, and became quietly convinced it was doing something to her life that she couldn't explain and didn't enjoy. Her solution — and this is where the story becomes genuinely unhinged — was to auction it off, on the theory that transferring the object would transfer whatever was attached to it. It worked, technically. The watch moved. It moved directly to Kim Kardashian. Radziwill, who has since admitted she half-expected it to find its way back to her, said she "thought it would boomerang." It didn't boomerang. It landed in a Calabasas vault next to however many other historically significant objects Kim has quietly accumulated over the years, and Radziwill is presumably fine.
What makes this more than a ghost story is the architecture underneath it. Kim Kardashian has spent the better part of a decade becoming the unexpected custodian of cultural artifacts — Marilyn Monroe's dress, now Jackie Kennedy's cursed Cartier. There's a pattern there that nobody has properly named yet. She is, whether intentionally or not, becoming a one-woman institution for objects that carry other women's ghosts.
Meanwhile, New York Fashion Week's Spring 2027 season delivered its usual front-row theatre — Amal Clooney in Tom Ford at Venice, the Vogue party circuit running at full capacity across Manhattan, celebrities arriving in looks that their stylists will be either credited or quietly blamed for by Monday morning. The seating charts at these shows are their own form of gossip. Who got moved up a row. Who got moved back. Who sat next to whom and will be photographed together until a narrative forms around it whether they like it or not.
Sydney Sweeney's week was more complicated. A campaign she shot for Novig, a sports trading app, landed in a very specific kind of internet fire — one where the criticism came not from the usual corners but from women who actually work in sports, which is the kind of backlash that doesn't dissolve by the weekend. When the people saying "this is the problem" are the people the ad was ostensibly celebrating, the defense gets difficult fast.
Jackie Kennedy's watch is in Calabasas. The curse, presumably, transferred. Kim hasn't mentioned it yet — which, honestly, tracks.
