Joan Bennett Kennedy

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Virginia Joan Kennedy (née Bennett, born September 2, 1936) is an American socialite, writer, and former model. She was the first wife of the United States. Senator Ted Kennedy.

Early life

Virginia Joan Bennett was born at Mother Cabrini Hospital in New York City. She was raised in Bronxville, New York, by a Roman Catholic family. Harry Wiggin Bennett Jr. (1907–1981), and Virginia Joan Stead (1911-1976) were her parents. Her father, a Cornell University undergraduate, worked as an advertising executive later in life. Bennett grew up with one older sister, Candace "Candy" (born 1938). In Purchase, New York, she attended Manhattanville College (then a Sacred Heart college). Rose Kennedy, her future mother-in-law, and her future sisters-in-law Jean Kennedy Smith and Ethel Skakel Kennedy were among her many others in Manhattanville. Bennett earned an MA in Education from Lesley College, now Lesley University. She spent her youth as a model in television sales.

Later life

The Joy of Classical Music: A Companion for You and Your Family was published in 1992. Kennedy has worked with children's charities, is a natural pianist, and has taught classical music to children.

Chronic alcoholism, which had existed during Kennedy's marriage, has influenced her later years. With intermittent, uneven sobriety, repeated drunk-driving arrests, court-ordered rehabilitation, and a return to alcohol, the problem escalated. This culminated in kidney disease, with the possibility of dialysis and protracted complications. Ted Jr., her son, had been named her legal guardian, in July 2004, and her children were granted provisional guardianship in 2005. After being discovered lying in a Boston street near her house that year, she was hospitalized with a concusion and a broken shoulder. She requested that her second cousin, financial planner Webster E. Janssen of Connecticut, establish a trust to manage her estate in 2005. This was in breach of her sons' guardianship. Janssen's children took court action against him later this year, removing him as trustee and then bringing a lawsuit against him with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in October and underwent surgery. She consented to strict court-ordered guardianship, and her estate has now been placed in a new trust administered by two court-appointed trustees.

She hasn't remarried nor started a new one since being separated shortly after her divorce. She attended Ted's funeral at the Kennedy Foundation in Hyannis Port. She lived in Boston, Massachusetts, and Cape Cod as of 2005.

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