Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy, died on January 30 (local time) after battling a rare cancer. She was 35.
The Kennedy Library Foundation posted a statement on social media on behalf of the family, writing: "Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts."
Schlossberg, the second daughter among three children of Caroline Kennedy, the former U.S. Ambassador to Japan and only daughter of President Kennedy, was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia — a rare form of blood cancer — after giving birth to her second child in May 2024.
She majored in history at Yale University and earned a master's degree in American history from Oxford University in the United Kingdom. She worked at a local newspaper in New Jersey before joining The New York Times as a science and climate reporter. She had a son and a daughter with her husband George Moran, a physician and fellow Yale alumnus.
Her death has once again brought attention to the Kennedy family's tragic history. President Kennedy and his brother, former Attorney General Robert Kennedy, were both assassinated. John F. Kennedy Jr., the former president's only son and younger brother of Caroline Kennedy, died in 1999 at age 38 in a small plane crash.
After receiving her cancer diagnosis last year, Schlossberg expressed regret over bringing more pain to her mother, who has endured tragedy throughout her life. In an essay published in The New Yorker in November last year, she wrote: "I have tried my whole life to be good. To be a good student, a good sister, a good daughter, to protect my mother and never upset her, and now I have added a new tragedy to her and my family's life, and there is nothing I can do to stop it."
