Mary Kennedy, the estranged wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was found dead in her Westchester County home in New York. Her death is the latest for the Kennedy family, who have suffered their share of tragedy. “We know from a history of this family, it’s very hard being a Kennedy, either being a blood Kennedy or being married to one,” Laurence Leamer, a Kennedy biographer told CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront.” “The overwhelming celebrity, the attention, the obligations, the expectations that you’re supposed to do something with your life. It’s very, very hard.”
Robert F. Kennedy Sr. was assassinated in 1968 in California while making a run for the White House. His death occurred four years after the assassination of his brother, President John F. Kennedy, who was also killed by an assassin. More than 30 years later in 1999, John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and his sister-in-law, Lauren Bessette, died when a plane he was piloting crashed in the waters off Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. On Thursday, the New York medical examiner will begin an autopsy on Mary Kennedy.
