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Bitter Kennedy family feud explodes as RFK Jr is 'banned' from late cousin Tatiana Schlossberg's funeral to 'protect her young kids'
SOURCE:Daily Mail
Schlossberg, who died at the age of 35 on Tuesday, had referred to Kennedy Jr, who is Donald Trump's Secretary of Health and Human Services, as the family 'embarrassment'.
Robert F Kennedy Jr has reportedly not been invited to the funeral of his cousin Tatiana Schlossberg
Tatiana, who died at the age of 35 on Tuesday, had referred to Kennedy Jr, who is Donald Trump's Secretary of Health and Human Services, as the family 'embarrassment' in a column just before her death.
A source told Rob Shuter's Naughty But Nice that Schlossberg's funeral is being kept to immediate family and close friends - which will not include RFK Jr.
'RFK Jr will not be invited, and the family made that decision intentionally. They are trying to shield the kids and manage their grief without extra public scrutiny or controversy,' the source said.
Schlossberg's parents - Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg - have reportedly been 'tight-lipped and deeply protective' over the funeral.
Her brother, 32-year-old influencer and Congressional candidate Jack Schlossberg, was reportedly 'barely keeping it together' on a trip to his sister's Park Avenue apartment with her son.
The source told Shuter that the loss and responsibility for taking care of the kids has taken a toll on Jack.
In her New Yorker essay, Tatiana also slammed RFK Jr over his work as part of the Trump administration.
Robert F Kennedy Jr will not be invited to the funeral of his cousin Tatiana Schlossberg (pictured) after she ripped him in a column written weeks before her death from blood cancer
Schlossberg, who died at the age of 35 on Tuesday, had referred to Kennedy Jr (pictured), who is Donald Trump's Secretary of Health and Human Services, as the family 'embarrassment'
'I watched from my hospital bed as Bobby, in the face of logic and common sense, was confirmed for the position, despite never having worked in medicine, public health, or the government,' she wrote.
'I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers; slashed billions in funding from the National Institutes of Health, the world's largest sponsor of medical research; and threatened to oust the panel of medical experts charged with recommending preventive cancer screenings.'
Her anger at RFK Jr is the latest example of the HHS secretary's estrangement from his famous family.
In December, the Daily Mail revealed that the storied Camelot clan is 'disgusted, embarrassed, and pained' by the latest wave of revelations surrounding what one insider called Bobby Kennedy's 'online philandering and
Those allegations are laid out in graphic detail by the 70-year-old's former online paramour, Olivia Nuzzi, 32, in her bizarre new tell-all - and amplified by Nuzzi's ex-fiancé, Ryan Lizza, who has penned his own salacious account of the pair's tawdry digital entanglements.
Some members of the Kennedy dynasty have not shied away from condemning their controversial relative.
Caroline Kennedy, JFK's only daughter, has publicly labeled her first cousin Bobby, 'a predator.'
Sources tell the Daily Mail that several family members 'feel strongly' that Bobby's third wife of more than a decade, actress Cheryl Hines, 60, should 'leave him forthwith,' or get him to seek professional help post-haste' for what they believe is 'a serious sexual addiction dating back years.'
Her anger at RFK Jr is the latest example of the HHS secretary's estrangement from his famous family
The only surviving child of JFK and Tatiana's mother, Caroline Kennedy, has openly labelled her cousin RFK Jr a 'predator'
Those close to Cheryl, who say they feel genuine sympathy for her in the wake of what they claim is 'Bobby's abuse through his illicit affair,' are now quietly weighing a rare - and potentially explosive - intervention.
A well-placed source told the Daily Mail that several family members are hoping to 'convince Cheryl that maybe it's time with all that's happened' to end her turbulent and painful marriage - or, at the very least, to 'get Bobby the drastic help he needs - professional help.'
Kennedy's also seen his personal popularity flailing as he tries to implement his MAHA - Make America Healthy Again - agenda.
When asked in early December who voters would kick out of the cabinet if forced to make a decision, 19 percent said the independent 2024 presidential candidate would top their list, according to a new poll from the Daily Mail/JL Partners.
In a close second, with 15 percent, was Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.
The Kennedy black sheep went through a bruising confirmation process as Democrats pushed back on his anti-vaccine conspiracies and his plans to completely revamp the public health agenda is the US.
But there was little they could do to stop Republicans from confirming him and Trump's other contentious cabinet picks.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is voters' preference for Donald Trump to fire from his cabinet if they had to choose someone
Now, it appears his unpopularity and rage from his family members will keep him from his cousin's funeral.
Tatiana, the granddaughter of former President John F Kennedy, died from blood cancer just six weeks after she revealed her diagnosis.
The Kennedy scion's death was announced on Tuesday via the social media accounts for the JFK Library Foundation on behalf of her heartbroken relatives.
'Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts,' the post reads, signed by 'George, Edwin and Josephine Moran, Ed, Caroline, Jack, Rose and Rory'.
The New York-born environmental journalist revealed in November that doctors told her she had acute myeloid leukemia in May 2024.
Writing in the New Yorker, Tatiana said she had no symptoms and was 'one of the healthiest people I knew' when the shock diagnosis came.
Doctors only found the disease through routine blood tests after she gave birth to her second child.
Jackie Kennedy, then 63, with Tatiana, then one, on a 1992 outing in Central Park
Jackie, then 63, with Tatiana and her sister Rose in Central Park, New York, 1992
It is the latest tragedy to befall Caroline Kennedy, who lost her father to an assassin's bullet when she was five years old, her only sibling, JFK Jr, in a plane crash years later, and her mother to lymphoma in 1994, when the iconic former first lady was just 64.
Writing in the New Yorker about her diagnosis, Tatiana said that she 'could not believe' the doctors were talking about her when they said she would need chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant.
'I had swum a mile in the pool the day before, nine months pregnant. I wasn't sick. I didn't feel sick. I was actually one of the healthiest people I knew,' she wrote.
Tatiana said her parents and her siblings, Rose and Jack, supported her through months of grueling medical treatments.
'[My family has] held my hand unflinchingly while I have suffered, trying not to show their pain and sadness in order to protect me from it. This has been a great gift, even though I feel their pain every day,' she wrote.
She also addressed the so-called 'Kennedy curse' in her essay, saying that she did not want to add 'a new tragedy' to her mother Caroline's life.
Tatiana is survived by her husband, George Moran (pictured with her), and their two kids
'For my whole life, I have tried to be good, to be a good student and a good sister and a good daughter, and to protect my mother and never make her upset or angry,' Schlossberg wrote.
'Now I have added a new tragedy to her life, to our family's life, and there's nothing I can do to stop it.'
The Kennedy family has also endured assassinations, drug overdoses, tragic accidents and scandal.
The US dynasty's most famous death was that of then-president JFK, who was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald on November 22, 1963.
JFK was in Texas with Jackie, and then-vice president Lyndon B Johnson, preparing to deliver a speech on the strength of the US, but he never reached the podium.
The president was shot three times as he rode in an open-top limousine, waving to crowds in Dallas.
Seated to his left was the first lady, his wife of ten years, who cradled him and screamed out for help following the shocking assassination, which was captured by TV crews and reporters in real time.
Three shots were fired in total. The first bullet missed, while the second struck JFK near the base of the back of his neck and exited out of the front of his neck.
The third bullet entered the back of his head on the right and exited out the same side, causing the massive wound that ultimately killed him.
In her New Yorker essay, Tatiana also slammed RFK Jr over his work in the Trump administration
Tatiana was the daughter of Caroline Kennedy - whose parents were John F Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy - and designer Edwin Schlossberg
JFK's younger brother, Robert, was also brutally gunned down, by a man named Sirhan Sirhan, who shot two or three rounds at him just five years after JFK was killed.
Tragedy struck the Kennedy family once more a generation later when the late president's beloved son, JFK Jr, crashed his small Piper Saratoga plane into the ocean around seven miles from Martha's Vineyard in 1999.
The journalist and publisher, 38, was on his way to his cousin's wedding with his wife, fashion publicist Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and her sister Lauren Bessette.
His plan on the day of the flight on July 16 was to fly with his wife, 33, and sister-in-law, 34, to Martha's Vineyard to drop Lauren off, before continuing with Carolyn to Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.
But the trio died around seven miles from Martha's Vineyard after it is thought he lost his bearings over the Atlantic Ocean due to poor visibility and a lack of training.
While she criticized RFK Jr, She dedicated much of her essay to thanking other family members for supporting her through the most difficult months of her treatment.
'[George] would go home to put our kids to bed and come back to bring me dinner. I know that not everyone can be married to a doctor, but, if you can, it's a very good idea,' she wrote.
'He is perfect, and I feel so cheated and so sad that I don't get to keep living the wonderful life I had with this kind, funny, handsome genius I managed to find.'
The Daily Mail has contacted Robert F Kennedy Jr for comment.