[Chickensoup]

My favorite part: Ethel offered to host the rehearsal dinner at the fanciest local restaurant her assistant could find. The bill came to $8,939.80. Short by nearly $6,000, Ethel promised to pay the rest. Two years passed without payment. On April 20, 1982, the restaurant’s owner, Rudy Fisher, sent a letter to Hickory Hill. “In these trying times . . . we need the cash flow to pay our suppliers,” it read. No response. He threatened to go on TV and “tell the world what a bunch of cheapskates the Kennedys were.” By September, Fisher was paid in full. He later said a Kennedy family member told him “it should have been a privilege to serve the Kennedys, and you shouldn’t be charging for the dinner at all.” ___________________ The money quote about entitlement. Friends I knew back then never ever did business with the Kennedys twice. They rented my aunts friend's place to ski and it was trashed, totally trashed and never did they take responsibility.

[Ditto]

I meet a bartender at an upscale place in New England one time. He had worked at a lot of different high end restaurants in the area. He told me he had served the Kennedy’s and their hanger-ons a number of times. He said when they came in, the first thing you do is get a credit card because otherwise they will walk on the check. He also said they never left a tip.

[Regulator]

“They rented my aunts friend’s place to ski and it was trashed, totally trashed and never did they take responsibility”

One more story: the boys used to rent skis on thin snow days out in the West so they wouldn’t trash their own skis on the rocks. But they wouldn’t pay for replacement insurance ($1 a day). So they would show up with ripped up skis and try to intimidate their way out of paying for it. “You just want to screw us because we’re Kennedy’s!”.

They didn’t get their deposit back.

[goldi]

My cousin was in her house once. Absolutely filthy, holes punched in walls, damaged furniture.