Robert Kennedy's Wife found dead

marie_ndcal

14 years ago

Not much information just that. Age 51, but was divorced from him

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marilyn_c
14 years ago
I'm sorry to hear that. At first I was thinking of Robert Kennedy...the first one's wife. I wonder if she is still living.
ravencajun Zone 8b TX
14 years ago
Well it is a bit strange, the report says she was found dead in an out building on the property. Some one called it in.
Very sad she was only in her 50 s.
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I agree, such a sad ending for another Kennedy. I'm sure that there were many attempts to get her cleaned up over the years. He didn't divorce her until 2010 - and I'm sure that was probably a result of her inability to get control over her addictions. Alcoholism and drug addiction is not something you can make someone overcome. Look at Whitney Houston - she had an entire entourage trying to keep her straight and she kept on doing what she wanted to do. Sometimes, breaking the ties and moving on from someone addicted is the only way to keep yourself whole. She obviously had some mental illness/depression as well - so sad. Easy to do the what if's after the fact. If you're not living with someone with this disease, it's hard to imagine how it is day to day. I have a good friend who's daughter is addicted to prescription drugs and alcohol. She is unable to work or function as a responsible adult. She lives with my friend, comes up with all kinds of excuses for illnesses that she needs to go to the ER for treatment - aches, pains, migraines. Drinks like a fish, but you'd never know she's drunk. Been to 3 rehabs, but now she's "straight" and just has some health issues that require pain meds. My friend is 75, and her life has been consumed with worry, her finances ransacked helping her daughter. If she turns her out, she'll live on the street.
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kacram
14 years ago
I heard that it was an apparent suicide.
gadgets
14 years ago
I thought this was referring to Ethel Kennedy too. I did a search and she IS still alive.

They've had so much sadness in that family.

Shirley
dedtired
14 years ago
The Kennedy Curse lives on. I guess she was a bad alcoholic. Being married to a Kennedy would drive me to drink, too. So sad for their four children.
rhizo_1 (North AL) zone 7
14 years ago
Gosh, that seems like an uncalled for comment. Unless you have a source of on-going inside information, that is.
Chemocurl zn5b/6a Indiana
14 years ago
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s estranged wife, Mary, who battled her husband's rumored philandering by turning to alcohol and prescription drugs, hanged herself in a barn on their Westchester estate today, sources told The Post.

The 52-year-old mother of four is the latest victim of a family dynasty cursed with tragedies --may have taken her own life because she was haunted by her broken marriage, her friends lamented.

"She was deeply troubled, abusing alcohol and prescription meds," a close family friend said. "She had cause. She was used up and tossed away by Bobby. That was awful."

from the NYPost.com site linked below.

Here is a link that might be useful: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s wife found dead
susanjf_gw
14 years ago
i'd stay clear away from any kennedy...
sheilajoyce_gw
14 years ago
Agreed.
eileen101
14 years ago
I'd run the other way if I ran into one!
Steppy
14 years ago
I met a Kennedy man once in South Beach. I can't remember which one, but I remember someone saying he was a Kennedy. He wasn't interested in me, thank God! I would have told him to go away and stay away! This was not long after the William Smith rape incident at the Kennedy compound.
jannie
14 years ago
That family is cursed.

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