Thread: Robert Kennedy's ex-wife Mary found dead in New York home in apparent suicide

The mother-of-four was found dead in her Mount Kisco home Wednesday but there have yet to be formal reports about the exact cause of death.


Mary Kennedy, seen here with her ex-husband Robert Kennedy Jr




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This is very sad indeed for all concerned, but, I am thinking primarily about the children. Being a Kennedy is not worth the ordeals that attend that family.

Robert Kennedy, 58, works as a radio show host, a political activist, and environmental lawyer. In addition to his four children with Mary- whose names are Conor, Kyra, William and Aiden- he has two older children from his first marriage.

He is the son of Robert F. Kennedy, the one-time presidential nominee who was assassinated just five years after his brother President John F. Kennedy was also shot dead.

This branch of the Kennedy family tree has had its share of tragedy.

Michael Kennedy, Robert Jr's younger brother, died during a skiing accident in Aspen when some family members were playing football while on skis and were not wearing helmets. He crashed into a tree during the December 1997 incident and died, which came shortly after his family's babysitter claimed he had a sexual relationship with her when she was only 14 years old.

David Kennedy, the brother immediately following Robert Jr. in the family's line of succession, died of an apparent drug overdose in 1984.



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very sad........

Yes, it's almost unbelievable all the disastrous events that sadly have fallen upon that family, there is even something called The Kennedy Curse or The Kennedy tragedies, created by the news media, to describe the series of events involving members of the Kennedy family.

Believers in the curse generally cite the following core events as evidence of the family's misfortunes Kennedy tragedies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

So young and 4 children lost their mother...awful

I've always thought the "Kennedy Curse" was crap. Large family, lots of money, and loads of hubris (among the males anyway).

Originally Posted by nota bene

I've always thought the "Kennedy Curse" was crap. Large family, lots of money, and loads of hubris (among the males anyway).

..... and regrettably, lots of bad luck too.

Originally Posted by nota bene

I've always thought the "Kennedy Curse" was crap. Large family, lots of money, and loads of hubris (among the males anyway).

Which has nothing to do with the tragedies that have befallen them. Good to see the milk of human kindess flowing so strongly.

Always something with the Kennedy's, infidelity, rape, murder,assassination,alcoholism and drug abuse, they may indeed be a cursed family.

Originally Posted by sawyerloggingon

Always something with the Kennedy's, infidelity, rape, murder,assassination,alcoholism and drug abuse, they may indeed be a cursed family.

I agree.

But then, what about him? John F. Kennedy, Jr. he died when his airplane crashed