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

She had publicly chronicled her aggressive illness and policy concerns in a November New Yorker essay after a diagnosis following her daughter’s birth in May 2024.

Overview

  • The family announcement, shared via the JFK Library Foundation on Instagram, said she died Tuesday morning.
  • Doctors diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia with a rare Inversion 3 mutation shortly after her daughter was born in May 2024.
  • Her treatment course included chemotherapy, a stem‑cell transplant, CAR‑T therapy, a second transplant and clinical trials, yet the cancer repeatedly returned.
  • She is survived by her husband, George Moran, and their two young children; the couple married in 2017.
  • An environmental journalist and author, she wrote for outlets including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic and Vanity Fair, and her essay also criticized cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s public‑health and vaccine stances.