Tatiana Schlossberg, the granddaughter of JFK, has died from blood cancer at the age of 35, just six weeks after she revealed her diagnosis.
The Kennedy scion’s death was announced on Tuesday via the social media accounts for the JFK Library Foundation on behalf of her heartbroken relatives.
‘Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts,’ the post reads, signed by ‘George, Edwin and Josephine Moran, Ed, Caroline, Jack, Rose and Rory’.
New York-born Schlossberg revealed in November that she had been diagnosed in May 2024 with acute myeloid leukemia.
Writing in the New Yorker, the environmental journalist said she had no symptoms and was ‘one of the healthiest people I knew’ when the shock diagnosis came.
Doctors only found the disease through routine blood tests after she gave birth to her second child.
She was the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, whose parents were John F Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy, and designer Edwin Schlossberg.
It’s the latest tragedy to befall Caroline, who lost her father to an assassin’s bullet when she was five years old, her only sibling JFK Jr. in a plane crash years later, and her mother to lymphoma in 1994, when the iconic former first lady was just 64.
Tatiana Schlossberg, the granddaughter of JFK, has died from blood cancer at the age of 35, just six weeks after she revealed her diagnosis
Pictured: Jacqueline Kennedy, then 63, with Tatiana, then one, on a 1992 outing in Central Park
Jacqueline Kennedy, then 63, with Tatiana and her sister Rose in Central Park, New York, 1992
Schlossberg is survived by her husband, physician George Moran, and their two children, Edwin, three, and Josephine, one.
Writing in the New Yorker about her diagnosis, Schlossberg said that ‘could not believe’ the doctors were talking about her when they said she would need chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant.
‘I had swum a mile in the pool the day before, nine months pregnant. I wasn’t sick. I didn’t feel sick. I was actually one of the healthiest people I knew,’ she wrote.
Schlossberg said her parents and her siblings, Rose and Jack, supported her through months of grueling medical treatments.
‘[My family has] held my hand unflinchingly while I have suffered, trying not to show their pain and sadness in order to protect me from it. This has been a great gift, even though I feel their pain every day,’ she wrote.
She also addressed the so-called ‘Kennedy curse’ in her essay, saying that she did not want to add ‘a new tragedy’ to her mother Caroline’s life.
Caroline was five years old when her father was assassinated, and she lost her only living sibling, John F. Kennedy Jr., in a plane crash years later.
‘For my whole life, I have tried to be good, to be a good student and a good sister and a good daughter, and to protect my mother and never make her upset or angry,’ Schlossberg wrote.
‘Now I have added a new tragedy to her life, to our family’s life, and there’s nothing I can do to stop it.’
The Kennedy scion’s death was announced on Tuesday via the social media accounts for the JFK Library Foundation on behalf of her heartbroken relatives
Pictured: The funeral of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in New York, 1994. Caroline Kennedy, John Kennedy, Jr., (center), Maurice Tempelson, partner, is behind Caroline
Tatiana Schlossberg wrote in The New Yorker that she had no symptoms and was ‘one of the healthiest people I knew’ when she was diagnosed with blood cancer last year
Schlossberg leaves behind her husband, George Moran (pictured with her), and their two kids
The Kennedy family has also endured assassinations, drug overdoses, tragic accidents and scandal.
The US dynasty’s most famous death was that of then-President John F Kennedy who was brutally shot by Lee Harvey Oswald on November 22, 1963.
Kennedy was in Texas with his wife Jackie and Vice President Lyndon B Johnson on the day of his assassination, preparing to deliver a speech on the strength of the US – but he never reached the podium.
The president was shot three times as he rode in an open-top limousine, waving to crowds in Dallas.
Seated to his left was the first lady, his wife of 10 years, who cradled him and screamed out for help following the shocking assassination which was captured by TV crews and reporters in real time.
Three shots were fired in total. The first bullet missed, while the second struck Kennedy near the base of the back of his neck and exited out of the front of his neck.
The third bullet entered the back of his head on the right and exited out the same side, causing the massive wound that ultimately killed him.
The most famous death in the Kennedy family was that of President John F Kennedy who was brutally shot by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas on November 22, 1963
Pictured: Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg hugs daughter Tatiana Schlossberg outside the JFK Library after handing out the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award May 22, 2000
Pictured: Rose Kennedy Schlossberg and Tatiana Schlossberg at the Kennedy Center Honors Gala Dinner in Washington DC in December 2014
Pictured: Britain’s Prince William is welcomed by US Ambassador to Australia, Caroline Kennedy (R), Jack Kennedy Schlossberg (2nd L) and Tatiana Kennedy Schlossberg to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, Massachusetts, December 2, 2022
JFK’s younger brother Robert was also brutally gunned down, by a man named Sirhan Sirhan, who shot two or three rounds at the former president’s brother, just five years after JFK was killed.
Tragedy struck the Kennedy family once more a generation later when the late president’s beloved son, JFK Jr, crashed his small Piper Saratoga plane into the ocean around seven miles from Martha’s Vineyard in 1999.
The journalist and publisher, 38, was on his way to his cousin’s wedding with his wife fashion publicist Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and her sister Lauren Bessette.
His plan on the day of the flight on July 16, was to fly with his wife, 33, and sister-in-law, 34, to Martha’s Vineyard to drop Lauren off, before continuing with Carolyn to Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.
But the trio died around seven miles from Martha’s Vineyard after it’s thought he lost his bearings over the Atlantic Ocean due to poor visibility and a lack of training.
In her New Yorker essay, Schlossberg also slammed her mother’s cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is Donald Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services, as the family ’embarrassment’.
Tatiana Schlossberg, the granddaughter of JFK, has died from cancer at the age of 35
Pictured: Tatiana Schlossberg with her mother Caroline Kennedy and father Edwin Schlossberg
Pictured: Jack Schlossberg and Tatiana Schlossberg in an image from his Instagram
‘I watched from my hospital bed as Bobby, in the face of logic and common sense, was confirmed for the position, despite never having worked in medicine, public health, or the government,’ she wrote.
‘I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers; slashed billions in funding from the National Institutes of Health, the world’s largest sponsor of medical research; and threatened to oust the panel of medical experts charged with recommending preventive cancer screenings.’
She dedicated much of her essay though to thanking other family members for supporting her through the most difficult months of her treatment.
‘[George] would go home to put our kids to bed and come back to bring me dinner. I know that not everyone can be married to a doctor, but, if you can, it’s a very good idea,’ she wrote.
‘He is perfect, and I feel so cheated and so sad that I don’t get to keep living the wonderful life I had with this kind, funny, handsome genius I managed to find.’
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