Posted on 10/25/2004 3:23:21 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Why have we not heard anything about Sen. John Kerry’s former wife, the mother of his daughters? What can you tell us about her? When divorced, remarried, etc.? - P.S., Lebanon
You probably haven’t heard anything about her because she’s an exceedingly private person.
Kerry married the former Julia Thorne, a Philadelphia heiress, in 1970 in Bay Shore, N.Y. They honeymooned in Jamaica.
As you note, they had two daughters, Alexandra in 1973 and Vanessa in 1976.
The couple separated in 1982 at a time when Thorne was battling a deep depression and contemplating suicide.
"After 14 years as a political wife," she wrote in a book about depression titled "You Are Not Alone," "I associated politics only with anger, fear and loneliness. …
"I could no longer pretend I was of use to my husband or my children. I knew that once I was gone my family and friends would be relieved of the burden of my incompetency."
The couple’s divorce was final in 1988 but was not annulled by the Roman Catholic Church until 1997 – two years after Kerry married Teresa Simões-Ferreira Heinz, a former United Nations translator and widow of Pennsylvania Sen. H. John Heinz III, a Republican.
Thorne now lives in Bozeman, Mont., with her new husband, architect Richard Charlesworth, and recently completed a course of treatment for cancer.
She’s spurned attempts to get her to talk about her ex-husband.
"Julia does not want to answer questions from the media," a family friend told the Bozeman Daily Chronicle earlier this year. "She hopes her desire for privacy will be respected and honored thoroughly. … She wants to be left alone."
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The fact that she's now a recluse who apparently fell to pieces whilst married to him and fought the "disappearing" of her marriage to him serves as pretty good evidence of his "character". [gaaah!...saying that made me nauseous]
I read somewhere that she quietly "supports" his bid for president so I really doubt she'll be writing an expose' any time soon.
All of America knows of her existence and the anullment issue will only weigh on the minds of those who hold such things as marriage sacred.
It may be that she -fears- to speak of him publicly.
Based on what I've seen of him, he strikes me as a vicious, violent, potentially dangerous person.
Perhaps he "made her a deal" for her silence.
Chilling thought, isn't it?
The dems would've loved it if Jane Wyman had spent some time trashing her first husband.
Leave his kids out of it. They have enough problems.
Gee, John Kerry sure knows how to lure the rich ones, doesn't he?
I agree. Even as an example of how despicable Kerry is, this one should be left alone. She has suffered enough. Of course, if it were a Republican X-wife cancer victim, she would be "fair game" to the dimos.
Sometimes it's better to err on the side of mercy...:)
A: The Government. But he divorced when he found someone who can spend other peoples money even faster.
They honeymooned in Jamaica.
remember when the swifties said that Kerry met with the enemy in Paris, the kerry campaign came out and said he was on his honeymoom there and while in Paris was asked to join a meeting??????
ANOTHER LIE!!!
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Well, after seeing it posted for the 50,000th time during this campaign it put me over the edge lol
It's just a dumb crass ignorant remark.
It's meant to be a slap in the face to those Democrat/Catholics who like to toss their vows, write a check, and carry on.
THE SENATE'S NEW ROMEO?
Published on February 22, 1989
Author(s): John Robinson Globe Staff
WASHINGTON -- His divorce has been final for only six months, but already Sen. John Kerry has acquired a first-class rake's reputation in the rarefied world of rich, handsome, young bachelor senators.
To hear the gossips tell it, the tall, dark-haired former Navy officer with the surgically improved chin has been cutting a swath through the ranks of America's most available young women, inspiring both admiration and envy among the capital's preening young singles.
I'm thinking the remarks may be skirting too close to home for some.
Don't say that kind of thing please! No child is what you say...never! Let's leave the kids out remember? I know you didn't mean that.
See, that's the problem.
There's lots of Catholics who are not Democrats.
The annulment process can take 2 years or more for most people.
No matter how hard/easy/right/wrong it is to get an annulment, it has no bearing on the legitimacy of the children, and that is the fact. The children are irrelevant to the discussion. In fact, the annulment is irrelevant. It was his ex that sought the divorce in the first place.
If you want to call Kerry a bastard, just call him a bastard.
I don' think your comments are out of line at all. I am sick of the corrupt Catholic church aiding and abetting liberal New England politicians. How the hell do you get a 27 year old wedding annulled. And if so, are not his daughter's born out of wedlock, since the marraige never existed?
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