In some tragic news to hit just as 2025 draws to a close, Tatiana Schlossberg, the granddaughter of former President John F. Kennedy, has passed away at the age of 35 from acute myeloid leukemia. Schlossberg’s tragic, though not entirely unexpected, passing came on Tuesday, December 30.
As background, Schlossberg revealed in an essay for The New Yorker on November 22, 2025, that she was suffering from the acute case of deadly leukemia and that her doctors had told her she likely had less than a year to live, though it was not apparent at the time that “less than a year” meant just over a month.
In the article, Schlossberg wrote, “For my whole life, I have tried to be good, to be a good student and a good sister and a good daughter, and to protect my mother and never make her upset or angry. Now I have added a new tragedy to her life, to our family’s life, and there’s nothing I can do to stop it.”
Further, she also wrote, in that same New Yorker article about the diagnosis, “My first thought was that my kids, whose faces live permanently on the inside of my eyelids, wouldn’t remember me. My son might have a few memories, but he’ll probably start confusing them with pictures he sees or stories he hears.”
She added, commenting on the life experiences with her beloved children she was missing, that she barely spent any time with her daughter, saying, “I didn’t even really get to take care of my daughter – I couldn’t change her diaper or give her a bath or feed her.”
Schlossberg is survived by her husband, George Moran, and her two children, along with her parents, Edwin Schlossberg and Caroline Kennedy. Her passing was announced on Instagram by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, which said, “Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts.George, Edwin and Josephine Moran Ed, Caroline, Jack, Rose and Rory”
Regretably, Caroline Schlossberg, Tatiana’s mother, has seen a great deal of familial tragedy, with these being the latest in a long string of incidents. Her father, JFKm was assassinated in late November of 1963, the anniversary of which was the day that Tatiana announced her cancer diagnosis. Then the death of her uncle, RFK’s death, came less than five years after her father died.
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Then, in 1994, her mother, Jackie Kennedy Onassis, died of non-Hodgkin lymphoma that had spread to her spinal cord, brain, and liver. She was just 64 when she died. Just a few years later, Caroline’s younger brother, John F. Kennedy Jr., died of a plane crash at the age of 38; that plane crash killed his wife, Carolina Bessette Kennedy, as well.
Tatiana’s brother is attempting to replace Jerry Nadler in Congress. Announcing as much in a video posted online, he said,“This is the best part of the greatest city on Earth. We have the best hospitals and schools, restaurants and museums. This is the financial and media capital of the world. This district should have a representative who can harness the creativity, energy and drive of this district and translate that into political power in Washington.”
He added, “I’m not running because I have all the answers to our problems. I’m running because the people of New York 12 do. I want to listen to your struggles, hear your stories, amplify your voice, go to Washington and execute on your behalf.” His mother, Caroline, apparently pleaded with him to not run, but he did anyway.