Isabel Vincent: “I gained extraordinary entry to the diaries almost a yr after the suicide of Mary Richardson Kennedy, his second spouse, who hanged herself in Might 2012. On the finish of a dinner with a trusted supply at an Higher East Facet bistro, I excused myself to go to the restroom, and after I returned, the diaries have been in a plastic procuring bag hanging from the facet of my chair. Nothing was spoken. I knew what I had.”
“Flipping by means of the unwieldy journals on the subway journey house, I confess I used to be solely on the lookout for the intercourse. Moderately, I used to be trying to find the descriptions of intercourse that my supply had informed me about. I discovered the lists of dozens of girls in the back of the books. Beside every identify—they’re principally first names—Kennedy had purportedly assigned a quantity from 1 to 10 to explain how far issues had progressed, with ’10’ denoting intercourse, in keeping with my supply, who heard the reason from Richardson Kennedy.”
“Richardson Kennedy had allegedly given the diaries to a good friend in case she wanted to make use of them as leverage of their protracted divorce negotiations, at a time when Kennedy appeared to hedge on disclosing his household’s monetary property. The divorce was by no means finalized, and Richardson Kennedy was nonetheless married—nonetheless a Kennedy spouse—when she died.”
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