The curse that has raged on the Kennedy family for decades continues. Tatiana Schlossberg, daughter of Caroline Kennedy and granddaughter of JFK, has died at the age of 35. “Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts,” the John F. Kennedy Foundation announced.
Last November she announced that she was suffering from acute myeloid leukemia with a rare mutation, Inversion 3, which is found in less than 2% of cases, especially among elderly patients. He had described his ordeal – two marrow transplants, brief flashes of hope, then increasingly aggressive experimental treatments – in an essay in the New Yorker, “The Battle Against My Blood”, published on the 62nd anniversary of the assassination of his grandfather Jfk. Tatiana’s odyssey began in May 2024, a few hours after giving birth to her second child, when she was diagnosed with terminal leukemia, with doctors giving her a maximum of one year to live.
Thirty-five years old, journalist and the second daughter of Caroline and Edwin Schlossberg, in the essay she had linked the personal drama to the disasters inflicted, for the woman, on American healthcare by her mother’s cousin, Rfk Jr., appointed Minister of Health. “It is a source of embarrassment for me – he wrote of Rfk Jr. – and for the rest of my closest relatives”. His disappearance adds to the long trail of tragedies that have befallen his family over the years. His mother Caroline was 5 when his father was killed, 10 at the time of the assassination of his uncle Rfk, 41, when his brother John died in a plane crash on Martha’s Vineyard with his wife Carolyn Bessette.
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