Overview
- The JFK Library Foundation posted a family‑signed statement on Instagram on December 30 confirming her death.
- In a November essay, she disclosed doctors discovered severely low white blood cell counts during her May 2024 delivery, leading to an AML diagnosis with a rare Inversion 3 mutation.
- Her care included chemotherapy, two stem‑cell transplants with her sister Rose as a donor, CAR‑T therapy, and clinical trials, with periods of remission followed by relapse.
- She used the essay to criticize her cousin, U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for cutting vaccine and mRNA‑research funding she said could support cancer treatments.
- She is survived by her husband, physician George Moran, and their children, as well as her parents Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg and siblings Rose and Jack.