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What losses came before Kyle Kennedy's death in her family?

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She died at home in Westwood, Massachusetts, on the twenty-first of September. According to People, which said it had seen her death certificate, the cause had not been determined and the case was still being investigated.

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Kyle Kennedy was 42 when she died. One of her twins had died just days after birth.

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Age at deathSource: Ziare.com · 21.10.2026

In 1963 John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and in 1968 her grandfather Robert F. Kennedy was too. In 1997 her father, Michael, died in a skiing accident, and in 1999 John F. Kennedy Jr. died in a plane crash. ABC calls this run of deaths the 'Kennedy curse'. Tatiana Schlossberg, a granddaughter of John F. Kennedy, died of leukaemia last December.

Losses before her death
  1. 1963John F. Kennedy assassinated
  2. 1968Robert F. Kennedy assassinated
  3. 1997Michael Kennedy dies in skiing crash
  4. 1999JFK Jr. killed in plane crash

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