Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is alleged to have had inappropriate contact with a 23-year-old babysitter for the Kennedy family when he was 45, according to an explosive new Vanity Fair report.
According to the report published Tuesday, a then-23-year-old college graduate hired by the Kennedy family in 1998 to take care of the family's children in Hyannis Port disclosed in her diary that Kennedy, who was married to Mary Richardson Kennedy at the time, grabbed her leg under the table during a family meeting one night.
"From everything everybody says about the Kennedys + their Babysitters, they had me worried," she wrote.
"Like I have to watch out, be careful. And the other night in the kitchen w/ Murray I could have sworn he was touching my leg + hand. It seemed like he thought I was somebody else or wasn’t paying attention. Like he would come to every once in a while and snap out of it or I would move away. It was like he was on something or really tired or was missing Mary or was testing me."
The report further states that several weeks after that incident, she came into her room to find Kennedy on her bed, shirtless, with her diary detailing her intimate life open, and asked her to rub lotion on him. She described the interaction as "totally inappropriate," and then stopped writing about her encounters with Kennedy for fear he would continue reading her diary.
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This episode is one of many allegations detailed in the Vanity Fair article. Another story, complete with photographs, revealed that Kennedy texted a friend a picture of himself and an unidentified woman posing with the barbecued remains of a dog, taken during a 2010 trip to Asia — right around the time he was diagnosed with the remnants of a parasitic worm infection in his brain.
All of this comes after a new book, excerpted by People magazine, that details the final days of Mary Kennedy before her suicide in 2012, over a year after the two separated.
According to this account, during the separation, Kennedy cut her off financially until she was broke, kept her away from his side of the family, and pressured a therapist to diagnose her with mental illness, which the therapist refused to do.
After her death, Kennedy eulogized her to the press as a dysfunctional alcoholic then, after the funeral, had her exhumed and moved to a new unmarked spot away from the Kennedy family's burial plot.
