B.S., Harvard University (1980); University of Virginia Law School
(1984)
Ran the 1994 re-election campaign of his uncle, U.S. Senator
Ted Kennedy.
John Kennedy Jr. slammed him and his brother Joseph as "poster boys for bad behavior" in his magazine, George (August 1997).
Interred at Holyhood Cemetery (Brookline, MA), where his brother David,
who died of a drug overdose in 1984, and their grandparents, Rose Kennedy
and Joseph P. Kennedy, are buried.
Children: Michael Jr. (9 January 1983), Kyle Francis (6 July 1984),
Rory Gifford (14 November 1987)
Died after colliding with a tree while trying to catch a football
thrown by a friend as he sped down a ski slope with one hand and
video-taping the scene with the other.
His wife, Vicky, had been granted a divorce on November 28, 1997, but it was nullified by his death a month later--A divorce does not become final in Massachusetts for 90 days.