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Tatiana Schlossberg, Kennedy Granddaughter and Journalist, Dies at 35

Her family confirmed the death after a yearlong fight with a rare acute myeloid leukemia discovered shortly after she gave birth in May 2024.

Overview

  • The JFK Library Foundation shared the family’s statement announcing she died on December 30 and will be remembered in their hearts.
  • Schlossberg disclosed in November that she had AML with the rare Inversion 3 mutation, diagnosed following postpartum blood tests.
  • Her course included chemotherapy, stem‑cell transplants with her sister Rose as a donor, CAR‑T therapy and clinical trials, with relapse after initial remission.
  • In her New Yorker essay, she also criticized cousin and U.S. health minister Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over cuts to mRNA vaccine research funding.
  • She is survived by her husband, physician George Moran, and their two young children, with tributes pouring in from relatives including Maria Shriver.