Senator Kennedy's ex-wife Joan could not be reached for comment.
Posted on 01/24/2006 5:06:49 AM PST by billorites
Ted Kennedy’s people yesterday continued to deny a supermarket tabloid tale that the senior senator fathered an out-of-wedlock son 21 years ago after a New York newspaper reported that the alleged “love child” confirmed the story.
“It’s still not true,” said Kennedy spokesgal Melissa Wagoner after the New York Daily News reported a bizarre e-mail exchange with a man purporting to be Christopher Allen.
In the e-mail, Allen joked that he has “the classic Kennedy drinking problem” to the Daily News and added “it is kinda shocking to finally find out who my real father is.”
But a family member insisted that the e-mailer was an impostor.
“That’s not Chris,” said the lad’s uncle. “He hasn’t spoken to anyone.”
The e-mailer surfaced after The Wonkette, a popular political gossip site, unearthed a page on myspace.com, which it said was Allen’s Web site. The site contains some photos that appear to match Allen’s high school picture, but list his hometown as Framingham. Allen’s uncle insists that he doesn’t live in Framingham and doesn’t use myspace. He added that Allen never e-mailed the Daily News.
“It’s someone with the same name who is playing a joke,” he added.
According to the Enquirer, Allen is the son of Kennedy and Caroline Bilodeau, an attractive brunette the senator dated while on his way to being a swinging single.
A 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.”
But last week Wagoner dismissed the story as “irresponsible fiction.”
Caroline Bilodeau is now married and still lives on the Cape. But when we approached her husband last week to ask him about the paternity report, he said the family doesn’t want to discuss it.
“We really have no comment,” he said.
Another source confided that the family wants to keep the matter “in the past” and has no interest in going public.
“What’s done is done, this is all in the past,” said our spy.
According to the tabloid, Kennedy, who was then 51, took up with Bilodeau several months before divorcing Joan, the mother of his three kids — Kara, Ted Jr. and Patrick.
Bilodeau’s friends told the Enquirer she became so smitten with the senator, she “had dreams about being the next Mrs. Ted Kennedy.” But the love affair reportedly came crashing down when Bilodeau told Ted a baby was on the way.
Friends of Bilodeau say that even in high school she bragged about hanging out at the Kennedy compound in Hyannisport and dating members of the family.
Bilodeau’s 1980 Sandwich High School yearbook photo lists a series of “likes” including Jethro Tull, Bob Seger and the initials “T.K.”
The Enquirer is set to ring in with Part 2 of the love child saga any day now. Stay tuned . . . .
Every day's been like Christmas since this story broke.
This fool is so corrupt, who cares!!!!!!
Bilodeau’s 1980 Sandwich High School yearbook photo lists a series of “likes” including Jethro Tull, Bob Seger and the initials “T.K.”
So was he "dating" her when she was in high school? What is the Statute of Limitations on Statuatory Rape in Mass?
Senator Kennedy's ex-wife Joan could not be reached for comment.
If it's from the National Enquirer, it's probably bunk. But I vote to keep it alive as long as possible!
I have to laugh at the title of this article..Love Child?I think it should read raped womans child by Fat Teddy Kennedy..That seems to be the patten with the Kennedys..
Her age has been omitted from this article, which raises the obvious question: WHY?.
"What is the Statute of Limitations on Statuatory Rape in Mass?"
Better question to ask is what is the age of consent in Mass.?
For a Kennedy, about the same as for vehicular homicide.
But there is more here than a 'smoke and mirrors' e-mail, of course. Could be the e-mail may have been faked. . .and perhaps a 'FOK' or 'FOT'. . . did the faking.
But the story itself is 'framed' in National Enquirer this week as well. . .appears to stand.
(Pictures show this woman looks much like his current wife, Victoria. . .and the woman's name is 'Caroline'. . .surely fits in the 'family name'. . .and her looks do as well.) I would say. . .it's a match.
Figure about 18 in 1980, so she is about 43 I guess.
I wonder if Kennedy is regretting the fact that he smeared Alito.... yet?
Shouldn't be an age of consent issue as she was in the high school yearbook in 1980 and he was "dating" her around the time that he divorced Joan in 1984.
Age of consent is 16 in Massachusettes now, and was probably 18 then.
She was most likely in her early twenties. (Still about 30 years his junior.)
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