JFK granddaughter and journalist Tatiana Schlossberg dies at 34

Tatiana Schlossberg, a journalist and granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy, has died after a battle with leukemia. She was 34.

“Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts,” the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library Foundation said in a social media post on Tuesday. The message was signed by family members, including George, Edwin, and Josephine Moran, and Ed, Caroline, Jack, Rose, and Rory.

In a separate tribute, journalist and Kennedy family member Maria Shriver described Schlossberg as a devoted journalist, mother, and fighter.

“Tatiana loved life. She loved her life, and she fought like hell to try to save it,” Shriver wrote. “She was valiant, strong, courageous.”

Shriver said Schlossberg “was a great journalist, and she used her words to educate others about the earth and how to save it,” and wrote that she “created a beautiful life with her extraordinary husband George, and children Eddie and Josie.”

Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, publicly documented her illness in an essay published in The New Yorker on Nov. 22.

In the piece, she wrote that she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia after giving birth in May 2024, describing the discovery of a rare mutation known as Inversion 3 and reflecting on memory, mortality, and motherhood.

“Sometimes I trick myself into thinking I’ll remember this forever, I’ll remember this when I’m dead. Obviously, I won’t. But since I don’t know what death is like and there’s no one to tell me what comes after it, I’ll keep pretending,” Schlossberg wrote. “I will keep trying to remember.”