Politics & Government
Tatiana Schlossberg, Granddaughter Of John F. Kennedy Jr., Has Died At 35
Schlossberg had revealed her cancer diagnosis last month.

BOSTON, MA — The granddaughter of late President John F. Kennedy, Tatiana Schlossberg, died Tuesday at the age of 35, her family announced in a statement released on social media.
"Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts," her family said in the post to the JFK Library Foundation Facebook page.
The daughter of Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg, Tatiana Schlossberg revealed In November she had been diagnosed with cancer and has less than a year to live.
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"During the latest clinical trial, my doctor told me that he could keep me alive for a year, maybe," Schlossberg, a climate change and environmental journalist and the author of "Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don’t Know You Have," wrote in an essay in the New Yorker.
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Schlossberg wrote that doctors noticed her "blood count looked strange" a few hours after she gave birth to her daughter in May 2024.
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"The diagnosis was acute myeloid leukemia, with a rare mutation called Inversion 3. It was mostly seen in older patients," Schlossberg wrote.
"Every doctor I saw asked me if I had spent a lot of time at Ground Zero, given how common blood cancers are among first responders," she wrote. "I was in New York on 9/11, in the sixth grade, but I didn’t visit the site until years later. I am not elderly — I had just turned thirty-four."
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