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On the 39th anniversary of the 1975 slaying of Greenwich teenager Martha Moxley, the Kennedy scion accused of her murder is set to settle a slander lawsuit against television host Nancy Grace. In a stipulation of settlement filed in U.S. District Court in Hartford on Wednesday, legal counsel for Michael Skakel agreed to drop his case against the HLN pundit and fellow legal commentator Beth Karas for comments they made in a 2012 broadcast about DNA evidence near the scene of the crime. HLN parent companies Time Warner and Turner Broadcasting System were also named in the defamation suit and...

very season seems to bring a new best-selling book full of sordid details about the Kennedys, from allegations that JFK was a pill-popping intern predator to Carolyn Bessette Kennedy having a fondness for cocaine.  The Kennedy Curse, by Edward Klein, is the latest entry. The premise is simple: "The Kennedy Curse is the result of the destructive collision between the Kennedys' fantasy of omnipotence — their need to get away with things that others cannot — and the cold, hard realities of life."Sen. Ted Kennedy once wondered "whether some awful curse did actually hang over all the Kennedys." Of...

Kennedy cousin William K. Smith, who has twice been cleared of rape charges, reportedly paid a six-figure out-of-court settlement to a third woman who claimed he’d sexually harassed her. Laura Hamilton, who worked for Smith’s Chicago-based Center for International Rehabilitation from 1997 to 2003, filed a 40-page complaint against Smith that, had he not settled, would have landed in U.S. District Court. Hamilton alleged that Smith – Sen. Ted Kennedy’s nephew - repeatedly touched her, kissed her and massaged her, and that when she was pregnant she had to barricade herself in a bedroom to escape his advances. Her complaint...

A decade after the Kennedys sold off their Palm Beach estate in the wake of the William Kennedy Smith rape trial, the celebrated clan has made a return to the posh beachfront community. Reports the Boston Herald's Inside Track: "Snowbird Ethel Kennedy, who has put the family nest Hickory Hill in Virginia up for sale for $25 million, has settled into a $2.2 million three-bedroom rental on a private beach on North Ocean Boulevard." The Kennedy widow is reportedly planning to stay for six months, or until it's time to head north to the family compound in Hyannis Port. The...

CHICAGO -- The Center for International Rehabilitation conducted an internal investigation earlier this year after a sexual harassment claim was filed against Dr. William Kennedy Smith. That complainant filed her claim a year ago and received a financial settlement, which included an agreement that she not speak disparagingly of Kennedy Smith, NBC5's reported. A second woman settled her sexual harassment claim two weeks ago. Earlier this week, another former employee alleged those complainants were looking for money and throwing themselves at Kennedy Smith, but a former president of the organization disagrees. "I worked with them very closely," Sue Suter said....

Chicago - Sen., Ted Kennedy openly expressed his disappoint towards nephew William Kennedy Smith for once again leaving a rape victim alive. "This is un-Kennedy like behavior." Said Senator Kennedy. "Hasn't the boy learned anything in the past few years?" A woman is suing William Kennedy Smith claiming that the member of the prominent political family sexually assaulted her five years ago "in a manner that will haunt me to the day I die." In 1991, a jury in West Palm Beach, Fla., acquitted Smith of sexual assault and battery on a then 30-year-old woman he met in a nightclub....

Woman Accuses Kennedy Smith of Rape Thursday, August 26, 2004 CHICAGO — A woman claims in a lawsuit that William Kennedy Smith (search), a member of the prominent Kennedy family, sexually assaulted her in 1999, and her lawyer said Thursday that she did not come forward at the time because she was intimidated by his wealth and connections. Smith, a nephew of Sen. Edward Kennedy (search) of Massachusetts, was cleared of rape charges in 1991 and said his family and personal history made him a target for "outrageous" allegations. And the woman herself acknowledged having had a relationship with Smith...

Woman Sues William Kennedy Smith in Civil Lawsuit, Accusing Him of Sexual Assault in 1999 CHICAGO Aug. 26, 2004 — A woman who sued William Kennedy Smith said Thursday that the member of the prominent political family sexually assaulted her five years ago "in a manner that will haunt me to the day I die." The Kennedy cousin denies attacking Audra Soulias and claims she filed her civil lawsuit only after he refused to pay $3 million, but she said the power and money held by Smith's family was what kept her silent for so long. "Today I am...

CHICAGO (CBS 2) Audra Soulias, 28, filed a civil suit against William Kennedy Smith on Tuesday, five years after she says he forced her into his home, and sexually assaulted her. Audra Soulias isn't the only woman who's making allegations against Smith. The 2 Investigators have obtained confidential information involving sexual harassment allegations by a number of women who worked for Smith and traveled with him to foreign countries. "I think he is a person who has a lot of problems. He is obviously very sick," said Soulias. Audra Soulias is talking about her former boss William Kennedy Smith. She...

Sexual assault lawsuit filed against William Kennedy Smith By ABC7Chicago.com / City News Service August 25, 2004 (Chicago, IL) — A former personnel assistant to Chicago doctor William Kennedy Smith filed a lawsuit Wednesday accusing the nephew of the late John F. Kennedy of sexually assaulting her inside his North Side home in 1999. The suit, filed in Cook County Circuit Court Wednesday afternoon, names Smith as the defendant and seeks in excess of $50,000. The plaintiff's attorney, Kevin O'Reilly, could not be reached for comment. In December of 1991 Smith was acquitted of rape and battery charges following a...

Kennedy clan black sheep William Kennedy Smith is again facing accusations that he raped a woman. The nephew of Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy and the late President John F. Kennedy was sued yesterday in Chicago by his former personal assistant, who charged that Smith, 43, sexually assaulted her in his home five years ago. The suit, filed 13 years after Smith beat a highly publicized rape case in Florida, comes from Audra Soulias, who says Smith attacked her at his North Side digs in 1999 after plying her and friends with booze to celebrate her 23rd birthday. "He dragged me...

BREAKING NEWS: A lawsuit has been filed accusing the nephew of the late John F. Kennedy of raping his former personal assistant in a North Side Chicago home in 1999. The 2 Investigators have been working on this story, and will bring you our exclusive investigation tonight at 10PM.