Michael LeMoyne Kennedy

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Michael LeMoyne Kennedy (February 27, 1958 – December 31, 1997), was the sixth of eleven children of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy.

Education

Kennedy graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from Harvard College in 1980, and from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1984.

Personal life

Michael Kennedy married Victoria Gifford (b. February 20, 1957),^[1] daughter of former pro-football player and sportscaster Frank Gifford and Maxine Avis Ewart, on March 14, 1981, in New York City.

They had three children: Michael LeMoyne Jr., Kyle Francis, and Rory Gifford, and were residing in Cohasset, Massachusetts until his death in December 1997. A January 1, 1998, story in the Washington Post about Kennedy's death cited a Boston Globe article involving allegations that in 1995 Kennedy had an affair with his family's babysitter. No charges were filed because the babysitter would not cooperate.

Career

Michael Kennedy was the head of his brother Joe's non-profit organization, Citizens Energy Corporation. He also helped organize his uncle Ted Kennedy's re-election campaign against Mitt Romney in 1994.

Death

Kennedy died at the end of 1997 in a skiing accident in Aspen, Colorado. He was playing football while on skis with several other members of the Kennedy family when he hit a tree. Kennedy was not wearing a helmet or other safety equipment. Some have alleged that the family had been previously warned by the ski patrol to cease the activity.^[2] Others have noted that the ski patrol issued no such warnings.^[3]

See also

• Kennedy Curse
• List of skiing deaths

References

External links

• Michael LeMoyne Kennedy at the Internet Movie Database
• Michael Kennedy at Find a Grave