Posted on 01/19/2006 11:29:03 AM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
The National Enquirer splashes this week with a shocking story about Sen. Ted Kennedy’s secret love child with a Cape Cod woman whom the mag says he dated during his days as a swinging single.
According to the tabloid’s source, the boy, named Christopher, just celebrated his 21st birthday and is “mature enough to make his own choices about his background and biological father.”
Kennedy family confidante told the Enquirer, “This is one of the biggest secrets in the Kennedy family and known to only a few people including Ted’s ex-wife, Joan.”
As for the senator, his spokesgal Melissa Wagoner last night called the tabloid tale “irresponsible fiction.”
Here’s the story according to the Enquirer: Back in 1983, Kennedy, then 51, took up with Caroline Bilodeau, an attractive brunette, several months before divorcing Joan, the mother of his three kids — Kara, Ted Jr. and Patrick.
Bilodeau’s friends told the Enquirer the local lass became so smitten with the senator, she “had dreams about being the next Mrs. Ted Kennedy.” But the love affair came crashing down when Bilodeau told Ted a baby was on the way, the mag reports.
“Caroline announced to the family that she was two months pregnant around May 1984,” blabbed a Bilodeau confidante. “Ted was not happy about the news. He already had three kids with Joan and knew a baby out of wedlock could hurt him politically.”
According to the Enquirer, the scandal-scarred senator begged Bilodeau to have an abortion, but she refused.
“He told her he couldn’t undergo another scandal — not after Chappaquiddick, not so close to his divorce from Joan” said the source. “He was very angry when she defied him and had the child.”
During her pregnancy, Caroline’s friends noticed the unemployed young woman who lived with her parents bought a black Mustang convertible, an expensive Shar-pei puppy and moved into her own apartment.
Later we learned she received about $15,000 from someone in the Kennedy camp,” said the friend.
When Christopher was born in a Cape Cod hospital in December 1984, Kennedy was nowhere near the delivery room. But he did, according to the Enquirer, take a paternity test shortly thereafter to determine if the child was his.
After Bilodeau got the results, she moved back in with her parents but “always seemed to have money,” said the source.
Kennedy’s former flame did eventually find love with a man she met in a pizzeria. They married and he legally adopted Christopher and raised him as his own son, sources said.
“She has always been very protective of Christopher and wanted him to have a normal life, not the life a Kennedy lives,” said the friend.
LOL! Sounds like this one didn't go for any rides with Teddy at the wheel. Smart girl.
Has this been confirmed or is it still unconfirmed tabloid babble?
“He was very angry when she defied him and had the child.”
Impossible! Teddy's an upstanding Catholic!
(Good to see ya Dr. S!)
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I'll be in California in May, and I would like to see this house.
and you too!!
4th time is a charm?
Excuse me, post #6 was supposed to go to another thread!
Lord have mercy! I hope the love child Christopher is a swimmer.
...several months before divorcing Joan
hmm - So almost divorced but still married now counts as single in Boston???
...the scandal-scarred senator begged Bilodeau to have an abortion, but she refused
Personal note: perhaps she was actually a practicing Catholic...??
In related news, sources close to Miss Bilodeau report that she has made great progress with her therapist for an acute case of 'gephyrophobia' that seems to have come on, quite coincidentally, in early 1984.
Gephyrophobia: Fear of Bridges.
What a great guy!
Sort of like a Lewinski isn't sex.
"Gephyrophobia: Fear of Bridges."
:~}
Makes you wonder how many more "love children" are out there. Not to mention the number of abortions ol' Fat Ted might have coerced. Yeah, Ted, Jesse, fill-in-a-RAT's-name, you are fine upstanding citizens, all right! Just the kind of men to sit in judgment of a real man like Judge Alito! NOT!
You beat me too the thought...lol
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1560849/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1560680/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1560494/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1560362/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1560190/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1560131/posts
How about that it is the seventh post. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
This one didn't go for any rides with The Swimmer but she did wait for Teddy to put Joan in The Funny Farm.
BOSTON, June 13, 2005
(AP) According to a source close to the case, Joan Kennedy has reached a settlement with her children that calls for two trustees to manage her estate, with a guardian supervising her personal affairs.
Is this to suggest that Teddy isn't "pro-choice" after all?
JFK supposedly got a girl pregnant and had her sent away for an abortion.
...more like the 10th time...
Why was this posted on Drudge and then removed very quickly?
Mag: Ted K’s secret love child a secret no more
The Boston Herald | 01/18/2006 | Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa
Posted on 01/18/2006 12:15:49 AM PST by Panerai
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1560131/posts
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