Granddaughter of Former U.S. President Kennedy Dies at 35 After Battling Rare Cancer

Tatiana Schlossberg Passes Away After Battle With Cancer

Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy, passed away at the age of 35 on the 30th (local time) after a battle with illness. Photo by AFP Yonhap News

The granddaughter of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy has passed away in her 30s after battling a rare form of cancer.

The Kennedy Library Foundation announced through a family statement posted on social media that Tatiana Schlossberg, 35, the second daughter of Caroline Kennedy-the eldest daughter of the former president-and a journalist, died on the 30th (local time).

The post read, "Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts," but did not specify the place of death.

Schlossberg had been fighting a rare cancer. In an op-ed for The New Yorker published on November 22, the 62nd anniversary of President Kennedy's assassination, she revealed that she had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with a rare mutation shortly after giving birth to her daughter in May of last year.

Born in Manhattan, New York in 1990, Schlossberg majored in history at Yale University, an Ivy League school, and earned a master's degree in history from the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. After serving as editor-in-chief of the Yale Daily News, she began her career as a reporter for a local newspaper in northern New Jersey, later joining The New York Times and working as a science and climate reporter.

Schlossberg notably publicly criticized Robert Kennedy Jr., a member of the Kennedy family and the current Secretary of Health and Human Services, calling him "an embarrassment to me and my immediate family." He had promoted the unfounded claim that vaccines cause autism, and his appointment as Secretary of Health and Human Services during the second Trump administration was met with strong opposition.

Schlossberg's death is expected to be remembered as yet another tragedy for the Kennedy family, which has experienced a series of misfortunes. President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, and his brother Robert Kennedy was shot and killed five years later during a campaign event. President Kennedy's son, John F. Kennedy Jr., died in a plane crash in 1999 at the age of 38.