Tatiana Schlossberg, JFK’s Granddaughter, Dies at 35 After Blood Cancer Battle

Tatiana Schlossberg, the granddaughter of John F. Kennedy who chronicled her blood cancer battle in a devastating recent New Yorker column, died Tuesday. She was 35.

The JFK Library Foundation announced her death, writing on behalf of her family, “Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts.” The social media message was signed George, Edwin and Josephine Moran (her husband and children) and Kennedy family members Ed, Caroline, Jack, Rose and Rory.

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Schlossberg was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia after her daughter was born in 2024. In a widely read New Yorker essay published in November, she revealed that it had become a form of terminal cancer.

In the essay, she brutally took aim at Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his health policies.

“In August, 2024, he suspended his campaign and endorsed Donald Trump, who said that he was going to ‘let Bobby go wild’ on health. My mother wrote a letter to the Senate, to try and stop his confirmation; my brother had been speaking out against his lies for months. I watched from my hospital bed as Bobby, in the face of logic and common sense, was confirmed for the position, despite never having worked in medicine, public health, or the government,” Schlossberg wrote.

Schlossberg was a climate and energy reporter at the New York Times, and left in 2017. She wrote about the dead bear cub found in Central Park in 2014, and didn’t realize it had been put there by her relative Robert F. Kennedy Jr. until he revealed it in 2024. Her book “Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don’t Know You Have” was published in 2019.

Schlossberg’s mother was John F. Kennedy’s daughter Caroline Kennedy; her father was designer Edwin Schlossberg.

She is survived by her husband George Moran and two young children.