Video: Arnold Schwarzenegger interview with George Stephanopoulos, Good Morning America, ABC News, October 1, 2012; Arnold Schwarzenegger interview with Lesley Stahl, 60 Minutes, CBS News, October 1, 2012; Bobby Shriver interview, The Larry Elder Show, January 28, 2014; Maria Shriver interview with Diane Sawyer, Good Morning America, May 11, 2009; “Maria Shriver–Arnold Schwarzenegger Scandal Exposes a Familiar Kennedy Flaw” by Susan Donaldson James, ABC News, May 20, 2011; “Schwarzenegger’s Lawyer Slams Latest Double Whammy: Alleged Cover-Up and Mistress No. 2,” by Gina Serpe, E! News, May 25, 2011.
I also referenced videotapes of Maria Shriver’s testimony before Congress about Alzheimer’s as well as Ms. Shriver’s The Alzheimer’s Project for HBO and the eulogy for her mother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver; also, American Experience: The Kennedys, PBS, 1992.
I interviewed several people in the family of Mildred Baena, all of whom asked for anonymity.
For much more on the Shrivers, go to www.EuniceKennedyShriver.org.
CONOR KENNEDY AND TAYLOR SWIFT
I interviewed several people close to both Conor and Taylor in 2017 and 2018, all of whom asked for anonymity. Also: Gayle Fee; Leah Mason; Barry Thomas Sterling (May 12, 2018); Barbara Lewis (May 15, 2018); and Sister Pauline Joseph.
Articles: “Ethel Kennedy Explains the Taylor Swift Je Ne Sais Quoi” by Julie Miller, Vanity Fair, October 15, 2012; “Ethel Kennedy May Approve of Taylor Swift Marrying Her 18-Year-Old Grandson” by Julie Miller, Vanity Fair, September 25, 2012; “We’re Neighbours! Taylor Swift Moves Next Door to the Kennedy Compound as She ‘Buys $5m Cape Cod Mansion’” by Lizzie Smith, Daily Mail, August 13, 2012; “Taylor Swift Buys $4.9 Million Cape Cod Beach Home Near Boyfriend Conor Kennedy’s Family Estate” by Gina Pace, New York Daily News, March 6, 2013; “Taylor Swift made $1 Million Profit After Selling Hyannis Port House Near Ex Conor Kennedy’s Family Compound: Report” by Zayda Rivera, New York Daily News, March 7, 2013.
Volume: A Common Struggle by Patrick J. Kennedy and Stephen Fried.
Videos: “Taylor Swift New Hyannisport Neighbor Says Ethel Kennedy,” Capecast, YouTube, October 12, 2012; “Ethel & Rory Talk Taylor Swift and ‘Ethel’ at the Celebs.com Studio at Sundance,” Celebs.com, YouTube, January 31, 2012; “2012 Ripple of Hope Awards Ceremony” (entire gala).
JOSEPH PATRICK KENNEDY III AND LAUREN ANNE BIRCHFIELD KENNEDY
Interviews: Joseph Patrick Kennedy III (March 1998; February 2011); Noelle Bombardier; Leah Mason.
Articles: “Meet Joe Kennedy, the Democrat Taking on Trump” by Tessa Stewart, Rolling Stone, January 30, 2018; “Joe Kennedy III Carries the Kennedy Legacy into Fight Against Trump” by Jon Ward, Yahoo! News, January 30, 2018; “Joe Kennedy III Reacts to Trump: ‘Bullies May Land a Punch,’ Don’t Win,” Associated Press, January 30, 2018; “A Life of Challenge” by Maxwell Kennedy, Inside Borders, June 1998; “Meet the Next President Kennedy” by Matt Viser, Town and Country, July 6, 2017.
Oral History: Frank Mankiewicz–RFK #3. August 12, 1969 (JFK Library).
Video: “Full Transcript and Video: Joe Kennedy Delivers Democratic Response to State of the Union,” The New York Times, January 31, 2018; “Rep. Joe Kennedy Weighs In on Trump,” The Daily Show, August 2, 2017.
Audio: “Representative Joe Kennedy III Reflects on Great-Uncle JFK’s Legacy,” JFK Library, May 29, 2017.
MISCELLANEOUS
“Kennedy Makes Campaign Stop in Sterling” by Pam Eggemeier, Saukvalley.com, September 18, 2017; “For the Democrats, Chris Kennedy” by the editorial board, Chicago Tribune, February 21, 2018; “‘Untouchable’ Kennedys Boast About Bad Behavior All Over Hyannis Port,” by Gabrielle Fonrouge, New York Post, August 30, 2017; “How a Kennedy Family Party Devolved into an ‘Angry Mob,’ According to Cape Cod Police” by Kenzie Bryant, Vanity Fair, August 23, 2017; “Kennedys Are Hyannisport Hypocrites When It Comes to Racial, Ethnic Diversity” by Howie Carr, Boston Herald, July 8, 2018.
Personal Acknowledgments
I want to thank my editor, Charles Spicer, for all his encouragement and also for his interest in following up our New York Times bestseller together, Jackie, Janet & Lee, with this work, The Kennedy Heirs. I’m so honored to be edited by Charles and published by St. Martin’s Press. Thanks also to Charles’s assistant, Sarah Grill. My appreciation, as well, to Bethany Reis, who did a wonderful job copyediting this manuscript.
I would also like to acknowledge my domestic literary agent, Mitch Douglas, for the last twenty years of his terrific representation. Mitch is a good friend as well as my agent, and I am eternally grateful to him.
And I would like to acknowledge my foreign agent, Dorie Simmonds of the Dorie Simmonds Agency in London, who has not only represented me for more than twenty years but is a trusted friend.
I would like to thank my amazing attorney, Stephen Breimer of Bloom, Hergott, Diemer, Rosenthal & LaViolette, for his dedication to my career. Special thanks also to Candice Hanson.
Thanks also to Laurie Pozmantier at WME.
Special thanks also to Jo Ann McMahon and Felinda Adlawan of Horowitz Zaron McMahon.
I also want to acknowledge my television producing partner and good friend, Keri Selig, who has been in the trenches with me now for more than six years. We’re a great team. Thanks also to her chief assistant, Kimberly Current of Intuition Productions.
I would also like to acknowledge my good friend Andy Hirsch for reading this book before publication and for his point of view. Jillian DeVaney also read it in manuscript stage and offered invaluable insight, and so I thank her as well. Barb Mueller read it in its infancy, as well, and I appreciate her, too. Thanks also to Linda DiStefano for her work as proofreader, not an easy job.
My thanks to Jonathan Hahn, my trusted friend of nearly twenty years.
Thanks to: Andy Steinlen, George Solomon, Jeff Hare, Samuel Munoz, Brandon Schmook, Richard Tyler Jordan, John Passantino, Hazel and Rob Kragulac, Andy Skurow, Brian Newman, Scherrie Payne, Freda Payne, Susaye Greene, Barbara Ormsby, Marlene Morris, Kac Young, Yvette Jarecki, Mary Downey, Laura Fagin, Corey Sheppard, Rita Bosico, Deb Armstrong, Susan Kayaoglu, Sal Pinto, Michael Coleman, Rob Kesselring, Howard Field, Stephen Kronish, Gordon Reid Wallack, Esq., and Lindsay Brie Mathers.
I have always been so blessed to have a family as supportive as mine. My thanks and love go out to: Roslyn and Bill Barnett and Jessica and Zachary; Rocco and Rosemaria Taraborrelli and Rocco and Vincent; and Arnold Taraborrelli. A big smile, also, for Spencer Douglas Taraborrelli.
I must also acknowledge those readers of mine who have followed my career over the years. I am indebted to each and every reader who has stuck by me. I am eternally grateful to anyone who takes the time to pick up one of my books and read it. Thank you so much.
All my books are written with my late parents, Rocco and Rose Marie Taraborrelli, in mind at all times. I miss them.
J. Randy Taraborrelli
January 2019
Index
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Abelman, Rebecca
Abelman, Sarah
Ackerman, Gary
ADD
Addison’s disease
adultery/womanizing, Kennedy. See also misogyny, Kennedy men’s
emotional
by JFK
Kerry Kennedy and
by Michael Kennedy
normalization/acceptance of
by RFK Jr.
RFK Sr. and
by Schwarzenegger
by Ted Kennedy
Affordable Care Act
Ailes, Roger
alcohol consumption
by Billings
family dynamics and
by Joan Kennedy
by June Verrochi
by Mary Richardson Kennedy
by
Michael Kennedy
by Patrick Kennedy
by Ted Kennedy, Sr.
Allen, Grace Elizabeth (Kara Kennedy’s daughter)
Allen, Max Greathouse (Kara Kennedy’s son)
Allen, Michael (Kara Kennedy’s husband)
All Saints Church, Sunrise, Florida
ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
Altman, Lawrence K.
Alzheimer’s disease
American Medical Response (AMR)
American Psychiatric Association (APA)
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
American Values (Kennedy)
Amnesty International
Arlington National Cemetery
Arnold (Schwarzenegger)
Ashley Addiction Treatment, Havre de Grace, Maryland
Auchincloss, Hugh
Auchincloss, Jamie
Auchincloss, Janet
Auchincloss, Yusha
Axelrod, David
Ayers, Ren
Baena, Joseph
Baena, Mildred
Bailey, Bridget (Rory Kennedy’s daughter)
Bailey, Georgia (Rory Kennedy’s daughter)
Bailey, Mark (Rory Kennedy’s husband)
Baker, Charlie
Baldrige, Letitia
Bar Cross Ranch, Pinedale, Wyoming
Barlow, John Perry
Batman & Robin (movie)
Beattie, Bob
Beatty, Randy
Bennett, Henry
Bennett, Virginia Stead
Bentley, Helen Delich
Benz, Edward J., Jr.
Berman, Matt
Berman, Michael
Bernard, Ena “Mimi”
birth/background of
death of
Ethel Kennedy’s relationship with
Bessette, Ann
Bessette-Kennedy, Carolyn Jean
background/career of
Caroline Kennedy’s relationship with
death of
drug use by
emotional affair by
Ethel Kennedy’s relationship with
JFK Jr.’s courtship of
JFK Jr.’s marriage to
paparazzi’s impact on
Bessette, Lauren
Bessette, Lisa
Bessette, William
Best Buddies International
The Best Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (Kennedy)
Biden, Joe
Bielat, Sean
Billings, Kirk LeMoyne “Lem”
alcohol consumption by
death of
drug use by
JFK’s friendship with
RFK Jr.’s relationship with
sexuality of
bipolar disorder
of Joan Kennedy
of Patrick Kennedy
Bloomberg, Michael
Bombardier, Danielle
Bombardier, Noelle
borderline personality disorder
The Boston Globe
The Boston Herald
Boston magazine
Bowman, Patricia
Boyle, Robert
Braden, Joan
Bradlee, Ben
Bradley, Richard
Brearley School, New York City
Brinkley, Douglas
Brown University
Burke, Allan
Burke, David
Burke, Richard
Bush, George H. W.
Bush, George W.
Bustamante, Cruz
Camp Shriver
Carter, Jimmy
Cavendish, Billy
CBS Morning News
Chafee, Lincoln
Chapman, Alyssa
Chapman, Mark David
Chappaquiddick scandal
Charlton, Janet
Chavez, Cesar
Chellis, Marcia
Chicago Tribune
Citizens Energy
Joseph Kennedy Jr.’s role in
Michael Kennedy as CEO of
Michael Skakel’s role in
Civil Rights Act of 1991
Clark, Alice
Clinton, Bill
Clinton, Chelsea
Clinton, Hillary
presidential campaign of 2008 by
as secretary of state
as senator
COBRA health insurance
Colley, Bruce
Confessore, Nicholas
Connie (maid)
Connolly, Neil
Couric, Katie
Crawford, Cindy
Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuomo, Andrew (Kerry Kennedy’s husband)
background of
marriage of
political career of
Cuomo, Cara (Kerry Kennedy’s daughter)
Cuomo, Mariah (Kerry Kennedy’s daughter)
Cuomo, Mario
Cuomo, Michaela (Kerry Kennedy’s daughter)
Curb Your Enthusiasm (TV show)
Daily News
Dana-Farber/Brigham Cancer Center, Boston
Dateline NBC
David, Larry
Davis, Gray
Davis, Thomas
Del Vecchio, Linda
Democratic National Convention
of 1980
of 1988
of 2008
depression
by Mary Richardson Kennedy
by Michael Kennedy
by Patrick Kennedy
Deshmukh, Vivek
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (APA)
DiNatale, Lou
Dobrynin, Anatoly Fyodorovich
Dougherty, Marjorie
Doyle, Eleanor
drug use
by Bessette
by Billings
by Bobby Shriver Jr.
by Christopher Lawford
by David Kennedy
by Ethel Kennedy
family dynamics’ impact on
by Jackie Onassis
by JFK Jr.
by Mary Richardson Kennedy
by Michael Kennedy
by Patrick Kennedy
prescription
by RFK Jr.
by Rose Kennedy
by Wenner
Dukakis, Michael
dyslexia
Edelman, Marian Wright
Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate
Edwin A. Schlossberg, Inc.
Ehrlich, Robert
Eiler, Sandy
Emancipation Proclamation
End Times Girls Club (web series)
Erikson, Erik
Ethel (documentary)
Evening Magazine
Ewart, Maxine Avis
Face the Nation
Fair Oaks Hospital, Summit, New Jersey
Fairy Tale Interrupted (Terenzio)
A Family of Poems (Kennedy)
Fee, Gayle
Fein, Leonard
Feruzzi, Malissa
First African Baptist Church, Cumberland Island
Fitzgerald, Benedict F., Jr.
Fitzgerald, John Francis “Honey Fitz”
Flack, Joseph
Fleetwood, Harvey Blake
Food Allergy Initiative
Framed (Kennedy)
Frank, Barney
Franken, Thomas
Franklin, Ben
Freeman, Richard
Friedman, Allan H.
Fried, Stephen
Fund for Public Schools
Gainer, Carol
Galland, Bob
Gandhi
Gargan, Joseph F.
George magazine
founding of
Gershman, Katherine Anne “Kiki”
Gibson, Barbara
Gifford, Frank
Gifford, Gladys
Gifford, Jeff
Gifford, Kathie Lee
Gifford, K. Dun
Gifford, Kyle
Gillan, Mary
Gillibrand, Kirsten
Ginsberg, Gary
Giuliani, Rudy<
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Glendening, Parris
Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles
Gore, Al
Gore, Tipper
Great Lakes Carbon
Guys and Dolls
Haag, Christina
Hack, Jinx
Halbfinger, David M.
Hammersmith Farm, Newport
Hancock, John
Hannah, Daryl
Harvard
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Harvin, Josefina “Fina”
birth/background of
Hay, R. Couri
Head Start
HELP foundation
Hennessey, Luella
“Heroes of the Planet” (Time)
Herrera, Carolina
Hickory Hill Estate, McLean, Virginia
break-in at
sale of
Hinckley, John, Jr.
Hines, Cheryl
Hoffa, Jimmy
Holtzman, Lenny
Holy Trinity Church, Washington, D.C.
Hoving, John
HUD. See U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Hudson River Fishermen’s Association
The Hudson River (Boyle)
Humphrey, Hubert H.
I Hate You, Don’t Leave Me (Kreisman/Straus)
Immigration Act of 1965
InfraLinx Capital
Inside City Hall
Institute of Living, Hartford, Connecticut
interventions
for Michael Kennedy
for Ted Kennedy Sr.
Israel, Steve
Jackson, Andrew
Jackson, Robert H.
James, Wilber
Janssen, Belle
Janssen, Webster
Jewish Daily Forward
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston
John F. Kennedy Library New Frontier Award Committee
Johnson, Lyndon Baines
Johnston, Matthew
The Joy of Classical Music (Kennedy)
Kearney, Margaret
Keeper Springs Natural Spring Water
Kelley, Kim
Kelley, Pamela
Kennedy, Aidan Caohman Vieques (RFK Jr.’s son)
Kennedy, Amy Petitgout (Patrick’s wife)
Kennedy, Anne Elizabeth “Beth” Kelly (Joseph II’s second wife)
Kennedy, Caroline Bouvier (JFK’s daughter)
Bessette’s relationship with
The Best Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by
birth/childhood of
brother’s relationship with
A Family of Poems by
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