Tatiana Schlossberg, John F. Kennedy's ex-wife, dies at age 35

BarcelonaTatiana Schlossberg, daughter of Caroline Kennedy and granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy, has died at the age of 35 from leukemia, which was diagnosed in May 2024, shortly after the birth of her second daughter. A journalist specializing in the environment and climate change, Schlossberg published an article in the magazine a month ago. New Yorker explaining her illness and announcing that doctors had given her little time to live.

The news of the young journalist's death was confirmed on Tuesday by the JFK Library Foundation. "Our beloved Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always live on in our hearts," the institution posted on social media.

In the essay she published in the New YorkerSchlossberg recounted how she faced the disease—a rare mutation of acute myeloid leukemia—and the certainty that her end was near. The journalist underwent chemotherapy sessions and a bone marrow transplant from her sister, but the cancer returned. In the same piece, titled A battle with my bloodShe explained that her top priority was her two children, with whom she tried to spend as much time as possible. "My first thought was that my children, whose faces live permanently within my eyelids, will not remember me," she wrote. Schlossberg also reflected on the impact her death could have on her large family, marked by various tragedies, such as the assassination of her grandfather, President John F. Kennedy, in 1963. "All my life I have tried to be good, a good student, a good student, be a good student, be a good student, upset or anger her. Now I have added a new tragedy to her life, to the life of our family, and I can do nothing to stop it," she lamented. The journalist was the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, former U.S. ambassador to Japan and Australia, who was five years old when her father was assassinated, and designer and artist Edwin Schlossberg. She was married to urologist George Moran, with whom she had a son and a daughter.

In the same article in which she recounted her illness, the journalist criticized the appointment of her cousin Robert F. Kennedy as Secretary of Health, calling it a "disgrace" to both her and her immediate family.

Aside from her work in media, Schlossberg was also the author of the book Inconspicuous consumption. The environmental impact you didn't know you had [Unnoticed consumption: the environmental impact you didn't know you had], for which she was recognized by the Society of Environmental Journalists in 2020.