FORMER US president John F Kennedy allegedly asked one the world’s most exclusive madams to procure him ‘a Jackie lookalike ‘but hot’.

JFK was just one of a host of well known faces who used the services of a Parisian prostitution ring, according to an American lawyer, screenwriter, and author William Stadiem.

Standiem, who has written biographies on celebrities including Marilyn Monroe and George Hamilton writes in Vanity Fair that Madame Claude ran the legendary organisation that allegedly drew clients from JFK and Marlon Brando to the Shah of Iran and Moammar Khadafy.

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Her clientele included not only dignitaries and political figures, but also members of the Mafia, as well as police administrators who ensured her protection.

Stadiem recalls meeting Claude (nee Fernande Grudet) after she’d fled to LA on tax evasion charges in 1977, to pitch collaborating on a tell-all.

“In time she was comfortable enough to drop names for the proposal,” Stadiem writes in Vanity Fair.

“There was John Kennedy requesting a Jackie lookalike ‘but hot.’ There was Aristotle Onassis and Maria Callas showing up with depraved requests that made Claude blush. There was ... Gianni Agnelli taking a post-orgy group to Mass.”

Sadly for us, publishers were never as interested as the pair hoped.

No-one knows how many prostitutes Kennedy hired, but there were enough for his bodyguards to worry that he might fall victim to espionage or blackmail, at a time when the United States and the Soviet Union stood on the brink of nuclear war.

“He had a tendency to surround himself with ladies sometimes who were a little worrisome,’’ said one Secret Service agent, Anthony Sherman, in an ABC television documentary in 1997.

“These women were of questionable character,’’ added another, William McIntyre.

Larry Sabato, author of the bestseller The Kennedy Half-Century: The Presidency, Assassination and Lasting Legacy of John F. Kennedy said the president had an ‘insatiable’ lust for sex and dallied with prostitutes.

“This was reckless to the extreme,’’ Sabato told AFP.

“JFK risked his presidency and family over and over ... Almost certainly, foreign intelligence agencies had some knowledge of this pattern of behaviour.”