"Robert Kennedy Jr.’s wife is found dead in N.Y. home; Couple estranged amid struggle with drugs and alcohol" by Bobby Caina Calvan | Globe Staff, May 17, 2012
Related: How Much Of Bobby Caina Calvan Is Made Up?
Sadly, I think most of the "news" is false if not fabricated.
WASHINGTON - Mary Kennedy, the troubled estranged wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was found dead Wednesday at her suburban home north of New York City, her attorney confirmed.
The death was the latest tragic episode for the Kennedy clan, which has been beset with untimely deaths and highly public personal woes in its storied history.
She was the second wife of Robert Kennedy Jr., a son of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who was assassinated while running for president in 1968. He is also the nephew of President John F. Kennedy, who was gunned down in 1963 in Dallas....
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RFK Jr.’s estranged wife hanged herself
Wake for Kennedy held after court date
Family, friends remember Mary Kennedy
RFK Jr. called wife abusive in court papers
Also related(?): Sunday Globe Special: RFK, Jr. on the JFK Assassination
Also see:
Kerry Kennedy arrested after crash
Kerry Kennedy blames crash on possible seizure
Related: Commerce Secretary Crash Cover-Up
"Kennedy’s sons at odds with his widow over institute" by Frank Phillips | Globe Staff, July 22, 2012
The already frayed relationship between Vicki Kennedy and her late husband’s children is at the breaking point, with the two sons growing increasingly convinced that she is jeopardizing the senator’s legacy and mishandling the creation of the $71 million institute that bears his name.
Much of the conflict centers around the construction and governance of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the US Senate, a project that faces potential cost overruns, according to a close family friend who was authorized by some family members to speak on their behalf, but who declined to be named.
Edward M. Kennedy Jr. and Patrick Kennedy, the senator’s children, believe their father’s widow is badly bungling the efforts to create what their father had hoped would be a monument to his storied career in the US Senate, said the friend, whose account was confirmed by another close family associate.
They believe she is depending too much on a small clique of the senator’s friends and supporters, a group that lacks any figures with national stature, prominent Republicans, or even a US senator....
Related(?):
"Kennedy Center chairman David Rubenstein will donate $50 million to the project, the single largest gift in the institution’s history."
The family friends said the sons also feel that Vicki Kennedy, who is the public face of the institute, is stepping too much into the political arena, undercutting the bipartisan spirit that marked the senator’s career and the image the institute should project....
She didn't run for office.
Besides her tussle with the two sons over the senator’s legacy, Vicki Kennedy has also become a lightning rod of discontent felt by some in the extended family, the family friends said.
Hard feelings have developed over the institute’s presence in the Kennedy family’s Hyannis Port compound. The institute, which earlier this year took possession of the original mansion and the sprawling lawn, is now charging a rental fee to the remaining family members who own property there if they want to gather on or in some way use the lawn that is the central part of the 2.4-acre waterfront lot.
The institute has also made the main house, which has been virtually unused since the senator’s death in 2009, out of bounds for use by the family.
When the singer Taylor Swift recently spent time at the compound over the July Fourth holiday, a request by the Robert F. Kennedy family to allow her to stay in the main house was rejected. The house, the original home that Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. bought in the 1920s, is slated to be used as a study and seminar center for scholars and researchers, an arrangement that the senator made in his will.
That's what the dust-up is about? A room for the night?
Officials at the institute say it would jeopardize its tax-exempt nonprofit status if it allowed the family to freely use the property and the house. They say the institute is legally bound to charge a rent and that the home cannot be used as a family housing unit now that the property is under the control of a nonprofit entity.
The senator envisioned the institute as a center to educate the public, students, educators, new senators, and Senate staff on the US Senate. The building will be owned by the University of Massachusetts, with construction managed by the UMass Building Authority.
The first sign of trouble came when the initial plans drawn up for the institute, by architect Rafael Vinoly, appeared to push the cost over budget. This, in turn, prompted the authority and the institute to scale back on the design....
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UPDATE: Kennedy Family Feud
Just blame Bobby and forget about it.
Related: Edmund Reggie, 87; was early confidant of Kennedys
Also see:
Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel wins new trial
Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel seeks release on bond
Michael Skakel freed on bail as he awaits new trial
Time for me to get out of here.
Related: Commerce Secretary Crash Cover-Up
"Kennedy’s sons at odds with his widow over institute" by Frank Phillips | Globe Staff, July 22, 2012
The already frayed relationship between Vicki Kennedy and her late husband’s children is at the breaking point, with the two sons growing increasingly convinced that she is jeopardizing the senator’s legacy and mishandling the creation of the $71 million institute that bears his name.
Much of the conflict centers around the construction and governance of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the US Senate, a project that faces potential cost overruns, according to a close family friend who was authorized by some family members to speak on their behalf, but who declined to be named.
Edward M. Kennedy Jr. and Patrick Kennedy, the senator’s children, believe their father’s widow is badly bungling the efforts to create what their father had hoped would be a monument to his storied career in the US Senate, said the friend, whose account was confirmed by another close family associate.
They believe she is depending too much on a small clique of the senator’s friends and supporters, a group that lacks any figures with national stature, prominent Republicans, or even a US senator....
Related(?):
"Kennedy Center chairman David Rubenstein will donate $50 million to the project, the single largest gift in the institution’s history."
The family friends said the sons also feel that Vicki Kennedy, who is the public face of the institute, is stepping too much into the political arena, undercutting the bipartisan spirit that marked the senator’s career and the image the institute should project....
She didn't run for office.
Besides her tussle with the two sons over the senator’s legacy, Vicki Kennedy has also become a lightning rod of discontent felt by some in the extended family, the family friends said.
Hard feelings have developed over the institute’s presence in the Kennedy family’s Hyannis Port compound. The institute, which earlier this year took possession of the original mansion and the sprawling lawn, is now charging a rental fee to the remaining family members who own property there if they want to gather on or in some way use the lawn that is the central part of the 2.4-acre waterfront lot.
The institute has also made the main house, which has been virtually unused since the senator’s death in 2009, out of bounds for use by the family.
When the singer Taylor Swift recently spent time at the compound over the July Fourth holiday, a request by the Robert F. Kennedy family to allow her to stay in the main house was rejected. The house, the original home that Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. bought in the 1920s, is slated to be used as a study and seminar center for scholars and researchers, an arrangement that the senator made in his will.
That's what the dust-up is about? A room for the night?
Officials at the institute say it would jeopardize its tax-exempt nonprofit status if it allowed the family to freely use the property and the house. They say the institute is legally bound to charge a rent and that the home cannot be used as a family housing unit now that the property is under the control of a nonprofit entity.
The senator envisioned the institute as a center to educate the public, students, educators, new senators, and Senate staff on the US Senate. The building will be owned by the University of Massachusetts, with construction managed by the UMass Building Authority.
The first sign of trouble came when the initial plans drawn up for the institute, by architect Rafael Vinoly, appeared to push the cost over budget. This, in turn, prompted the authority and the institute to scale back on the design....
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UPDATE: Kennedy Family Feud
Just blame Bobby and forget about it.
Related: Edmund Reggie, 87; was early confidant of Kennedys
Also see:
Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel wins new trial
Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel seeks release on bond
Michael Skakel freed on bail as he awaits new trial
Time for me to get out of here.
