Did these women pay the price for our obsession with so-called “Camelot?” Let’s dive more into the Kennedy curse!
For many years, the Kennedy name has been synonymous with power, wealth, and, above all else, virtue.
But this carefully created shell hides a dark fact: The Kennedy men’s legacy of psychological and physical abuse of women is part of a tradition of toxic masculinity that spans generations and has ruined quite a few untold lives.
Through scandal after scandal, the family has managed to keep this shameful side of their tale out of the spotlight. But let’s be clear… The apple didn’t fall far from the family tree when it came to the Kennedy boys.
Their father, Joseph Patrick Kennedy, was notorious for his wandering ways. It’s a well-known fact that Joe kept his wife, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, barefoot and pregnant.
After all, that’s how good Catholic families operated, right? Meanwhile, while Rose was busy giving birth to nine children, Joe had many steamy affairs.
But today, we want to talk about the rest of the clan. Continue reading as we uncover the stories of 5 women whose lives the Kennedy curse may or may not have affected!
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I can think of at least two others that could have been mentioned. One is fairly obvious: Mary Jo Kopechne. The other is columnist Dorothy Kilgallen, whose mysterious death was remarkably similar to Marilyn Monroe’s. Kilgallen was ready to have a book published about the JFK assassination, but after her death, all of her notes, transcripts and rough draft of the book mysteriously disappeared, never to be seen again.
Do not want this crap on my phone again
I’m surprised that you didn’t mention the name of Mary Jo Kapechne, (sp)? who drowned in a car
accident driven by Edward Kennedy. Her drowning was mysterious. I’m sure there are more women, whose lives were ruined or adversely affected by this powerful family.
You left off several others. Ted Kennedy while driving after a party he was giving a girl a ride home he crashed his car is a River the girl died and he ran home. Also his wife became an alcoholic.
Joanne
Most of the Kennedy’s are dead. Let them rest in peace. Seems to me you’d be more interested in JFK’S death than his sex life.
You forgot Mary Jo Kopechne, the young lady who drowned on Chappaquiddick island in 1969 while in a car driven by Senator Ted Kennedy that overturned into a pond. The Senator got out alive but he left Mary Jo and didn’t report the accident until the next morning!
You left out my friend Martha Moxley!