Tatiana Schlossberg, a journalist and the granddaughter of former US president John F. Kennedy, died on Tuesday after a battle with a rare form of leukemia. She was 35.
Her death was confirmed in a social media post by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
In a New Yorker essay published in November, Schlossberg said she had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia with a rare mutation, a cancer of the blood and bone marrow. She wrote that the diagnosis came in May 2024, when she was 34, shortly after the birth of her second child. A routine check showed an unusually high white blood cell count, leading doctors to uncover the disease, a mutation more commonly seen in older patients.
Schlossberg was the daughter of Caroline Kennedy and designer Edwin Schlossberg. Her essay was published on the 62nd anniversary of her grandfather’s assassination, a timing she acknowledged as deeply symbolic.
An environmental journalist by profession, Schlossberg detailed months of aggressive treatment, including multiple rounds of chemotherapy, two stem cell transplants, one using cells donated by her sister and another from an unrelated donor, and participation in clinical trials.
In one of those trials, she wrote, her doctor told her he could likely keep her alive “for a year, maybe,” a moment she described with stark honesty.
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