Was RFK Jr. At Tatiana Schlossberg's Funeral?
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appeared to skip cousin Tatiana Schlossberg’s funeral after the late environmentalist spoke out against him.
Schlossberg, who passed away at age 35 on December 30, 2025, was laid to rest on January 5 in a service attended by many members of the Kennedy family. The United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, however, was absent.
Schlossberg, who is the second of Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg’s three children and the granddaughter of John F. Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy, revealed her terminal blood cancer diagnosis in a November essay in The New Yorker. In that same essay, she called her mother’s cousin an “embarrassment” and criticized him for defunding cancer research, among other things.
“As I spent more and more of my life under the care of doctors, nurses, and researchers striving to improve the lives of others, I watched as Bobby cut nearly half a billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers; slashed billions in funding from the National Institutes of Health, the world’s largest sponsor of medical research; and threatened to oust the panel of medical experts charged with recommending preventive cancer screenings,” she wrote.
RFK Jr. has not addressed Schlossberg’s comments, but it’s not the first time her branch of the Kennedy family has denounced him. In January 2025, Caroline Kennedy wrote a letter to Congress calling RFK Jr. a “predator” who “preys on the desperation of parents and sick children” with his anti-vaccine rhetoric, per PBS. Schlossberg’s younger brother, Jack, has publicly criticized him for years on his social media accounts.
Schlossberg is survived by her 3-year-old son Edwin and 1-year-old daughter Josephine as well as her husband, George.
Among those seen entering and leaving the family’s private funeral service held at The Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, were former President Joe Biden and his wife Jill, former Secretary of State John Kerry, Michael Bloomberg, David Letterman and Seth Meyers, Fox News reported.