Carolyn was never left alone
It wasn’t just posthumously that everyone knew John and Carolyn’s address. She had already moved several times since meeting him in 1992: from the East Village, where she first lived, after moving to New York from Greenwich, Connecticut, in 1989, to Greenwich Village in 1993, when the Paparazzi began surveillance of her apartment, then in the new West Village digs in 1994 after finding her.
Carolyn moved into John’s Tribeca loft without a doorman or security at 20 North Moore in 1995.
While John and countless others assured her that the paps would relax once they were married, photographers waited outside every morning. And by many accounts, the media coverage of their relationship – feverish and intrusive as it was before – only got worse.
In the eyes of the media, John has always been a generous public figure, rollerblading or biking around town, romancing stars like Daryl and Madonna, and accepted press attention as part of his life. So when he asked them to give his girlfriend, then his wife, a break – sometimes with daggers in their eyes, another time by jumping on the hood of a photographer’s car – Carolyn eventually be blamed for the decline in his tolerance.
As Beller notes, it apparently did not occur to the press that John was furious because he loved Carolyn, who was so visibly distressed, and wanted to protect her.
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