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Tatiana Schlossberg, JFK’s Granddaughter and Journalist, Dies at 35 of Acute Myeloid Leukemia

She disclosed a rare AML diagnosis in a November New Yorker essay that criticized Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Overview

  • The family announced her death on December 30 via a message posted on the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum’s social media accounts.
  • Relatives said she died from acute myeloid leukemia after previously revealing her case involved a rare mutation.
  • Schlossberg was an environmental journalist and author with bylines at the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Vanity Fair.
  • She was the daughter of Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg, was married to George Moran, and was the mother of two young children.
  • In her essay, she wrote that doctors expected to keep her alive for about a year and she criticized Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for vaccine skepticism and proposed cuts to cancer research funding.