USA, Kyle Kennedy dies at the age of 42: she was Robert's niece

Kyle Kennedy's career

A professional educator, she dedicated herself in particular to children from disadvantaged backgrounds and minors with disabilities. Born July 6, 1984, in Washington, D.C., she was the daughter of Michael Kennedy, the sixth of Robert and Ethel Kennedy's eleven children, and Victoria Denise Gifford, daughter of NFL legend Frank Gifford. Kyle was 13 when his father died on New Year's Eve 1997 in a skiing accident in Aspen, Colorado. After graduating from Georgetown University, he began working as a teacher through the Teach For America program, then continued his studies at Pace University and Harvard.

Private life

In August 2012 she married Liam Kerr at the Fairmont Copley Plaza in Boston. Three children were born from her marriage to Kerr: twins Conor and Josie, the latter died a few days after birth, and Declan, born two years later. In the obituary, Kerr is listed as Kyle's ex-husband. In the last years of his life, as reported in the obituary, Kyle lived in a state of paralysis following a serious spinal cord injury suffered in 2020.