Ben Affleck in all probability by no means anticipated that media protection of his dramatic divorce from Jennifer Lopez would result in one other nasty story about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. desecrating the carcass of a big animal for his personal amusement.
Nevertheless it occurred over the weekend. After Lopez filed for divorce early final week, Affleck’s title popped up in reference to Kick Kennedy, a 36-year-old Hollywood actor who occurs to be the eldest daughter of the polarizing Kennedy. Page Six reports that Affleck and Kick have been “hanging out” collectively amid his divorce from Lopez, showing collectively on the Polo Lounge on the Beverly Hills Resort and different hotspots.
Though the character of Affleck and Kick’s relationship stays “unclear,” the fascination of their relationship is little question fueled by the truth that she is the daughter of the polarizing politician and Kennedy inheritor.
The one-time environmentalist and Democrat turned impartial anti-vaccine crusader has additionally been within the information this previous week after suspending his presidential marketing campaign on Friday and endorsing Donald Trump. Kennedy’s endorsement of Trump sparked immediate delivery from 5 of his siblings, who stated he betrayed the “values” that their father and household “maintain most expensive”.
As anticipated, Affleck’s relationship with Kick Kennedy sparked lots of web searches, with sleuths touchdown on 2012 city and country profile for her. And within the profile, the author shared how the then 24-year-old socialite and aspiring actor and philanthropist recounted one in all her father’s acts of “excessive environmentalism.”
In 1994, when Kick was 6 years previous and he or she was vacationing together with her household on the Kennedy household compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, her father discovered {that a} lifeless whale had washed up on a close-by seaside, City and Nation reported. As a part of his environmentalism, Kennedy apparently loved learning animal skulls and skeletons. So he raced to the seaside with a chainsaw and his younger daughter in tow. He reduce off the whale’s head, secured it to the roof of his minivan with bungee cords and made the five-hour drive again to the household’s house in New York.
“Each time we had been dashing down the freeway, whale juice was pouring out the home windows of the automotive, and it was probably the most valuable factor on the planet,” Kick recalled to City and Nation. “All of us had plastic luggage on our heads with holes reduce out for our mouths and other people on the freeway had been pointing fingers at us, but it surely was regular on a regular basis issues for us.”
Kik’s story about her father desecrating a whale carcass is paying homage to one other of his latest controversies, which additionally concerned a wild animal. Earlier this month, Kennedy took to social media to confess he was the person who dumped a lifeless bear in Central Park in 2014, sparking an notorious incident that sparked an animal cruelty investigation that by no means occurred found out the Daily Beast reported.
Kennedy posted a video on social media “to preempt” a New Yorker story that will reveal the bear dumping incident. He defined in a video chat with comic Roseanne Barr that he drove by means of the Hudson Valley to satisfy associates to go falconry. He got here throughout a “roadkill” child black bear and determined it was in “good” sufficient situation to pores and skin it for meat, so he put it at the back of his van and drove it round all day. However after realizing he would not be capable of get house quickly to chill the lifeless bear, he and his associates determined to depart it in Central Park.
“We thought it might be enjoyable for whoever discovered it,” Kennedy instructed Barr within the video.
In the meantime, Kennedy’s daughter is making information for being linked to one of the vital scandalous celeb divorces in a very long time. Individuals naturally attempt to study extra about her.
In accordance with to her IMDB page, she had a sporadic Hollywood profession, enjoying small roles in Gossip Lady, The Newsroom, and Curb Your Enthusiasm alongside her stepmother, Cheryl Hines. She is called after her great-aunt Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy, the independent-minded sister of Robert F. Kennedy and John F. Kennedy, who married into the British aristocracy however died in a aircraft crash in 1948.
The present Kick Kennedy is the product of her father’s first marriage to Emily Black, whom he divorced in 1994, the identical yr the whale decapitation was reported. Kennedy then married his second spouse, Mary Richardson, with whom he had 4 youngsters.
Throughout his marriage to Richardson, Kennedy engaged in a number of affairs and allegedly sexually assaulted the couple’s 23-year-old nanny, in line with a July report at a vanity fair. Richardson died by suicide in Might 2012, across the time Kennedy started relationship Hines and about seven months earlier than City and Nation profiled Kick for its Christmas concern. “It was a tough summer time,” Kick stated of the months after her stepmother’s suicide.
The City and Nation profile additionally addressed some Kennedy-related celeb gossip on the time — how Kick Connor’s youthful half-brother, then 18, was relationship Taylor Swift, 23.
Given Kick’s reported new relationship with Affleck, City and Nation’s revived profile has additionally introduced some curious celeb connections alongside the way in which. Kick talks about his closeness along with his grandmother, Ethel Kennedy. One in every of Kick’s favourite tales about her grandmother, then 84, concerned the Kennedy matriarch’s fondness for a Marc Anthony track. He’s, after all, the third husband of Jennifer Lopez, who’s now divorcing Kick’s new boyfriend Ben Affleck.
“She used to make us take heed to his track ‘I Must Know,'” Kick recalled. “She liked that track a lot – it was her jam.”
Initially Posted:
