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Tatiana Schlossberg, JFK’s Granddaughter, Dead at 35 After Cancer Battle
Tatiana Schlossberg, the beloved middle child of Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg, has died at the age of 35. The tragic news was shared on December 30 by the JFK Library Foundation on behalf of Tatiana’s extended family.
“Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts,” the post read, signed by “George, Edwin and Josephine Moran, Ed, Caroline, Jack, Rose and Rory.”
Schlossberg had publicly revealed her battle with acute myeloid leukemia in a heartfelt essay for The New Yorker in November 2025. She disclosed that doctors discovered the disease while she was hospitalized after giving birth to her second child, a daughter. Tatiana and her husband, George Moran, who married in 2017, also share a son.
“I did not — could not — believe that they were talking about me,” she wrote about her diagnosis, which required chemotherapy and a bone-marrow transplant. “I had swum a mile in the pool the day before, nine months pregnant. I wasn’t sick. I didn’t feel sick. I was actually one of the healthiest people I knew.”
In the essay, Schlossberg highlighted the unwavering support of her parents and siblings during her treatment. Her older sister, Rose, even donated stem cells for her first transfusion.
“My brother was a half-match, but he still asked every doctor if maybe a half-match was better, just in case,” she wrote.
“[My family has] held my hand unflinchingly while I have suffered, trying not to show their pain and sadness in order to protect me from it. This has been a great gift, even though I feel their pain every day,” she added.
Schlossberg, who earned a BA in History from Yale and a master’s in American history from Oxford, was deeply connected to her family’s legacy. Her mother, Caroline, was just days from her sixth birthday when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and later lost her only sibling, John F. Kennedy Jr., in a plane crash.
“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,” Tatiana reflected. “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.”
Even in her final months, Schlossberg focused on her family. “George would go home to put our kids to bed and come back to bring me dinner. I know that not everyone can be married to a doctor, but, if you can, it’s a very good idea,” she wrote. “He is perfect, and I feel so cheated and so sad that I don’t get to keep living the wonderful life I had with this kind, funny, handsome genius I managed to find.”
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