Meet Kick Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s daughter who's been linked to the newly single Ben Affleck (2024)

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Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy is 36 years old.

She was born in 1988 and is the daughter of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Emily Ruth Black.

Kick Kennedy hasn't commented on her father's political endeavors, though other younger members of the Kennedy family have.

Jack Kennedy Schlossberg, her father's cousin and the grandson of former President John F. Kennedy, denounced Kennedy's endorsem*nt of Trump, joining other Kennedy family members who called the move a "betrayal."

"Been saying it for over a year — RFKjr is for sale, works for Trump. Bedfellows and loving it," he posted on X. "Kamala Harris is for the people — the easiest decision of all time just got easier."

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She was named after her great-aunt who died in a tragic plane crash.

Kick Kennedy's namesake, Kathleen "Kick" Agnes Cavendish, was born in 1920. She was the daughter of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Kennedy and the sister of John F. Kennedy.

Just months after getting married in 1944, her husband was tragically killed in combat. Following his death, she entered into a relationship with Earl Peter Wentworth Fitzwilliam, a married man, People reported.

The couple planned to travel to Paris to seek her father's approval, but their 10-seat plane encountered severe turbulence and crashed in the mountains between Paris and Cannes.

Both she and the earl, who was piloting the aircraft, died instantly. She was only 28 years old. A write-up in The Atlantic said only her father attended her funeral.

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She has five siblings, four of whom are half siblings from her father's second marriage to Mary Richardson.

The younger Kick Kennedy has one biological sibling from her father's first marriage to Emily Ruth Black: Robert "Bobby" Kennedy III, 39.

Her half siblings include Conor Kennedy, 30; Kyra Kennedy, 29; William Finbar Kennedy, 27; and Aidan Caohman Vieques Kennedy, 23.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. married Cheryl Hines, his third wife, in 2014. They have no children together, though she has a 20-year-old daughter from a previous relationship.

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After her half brother Conor was linked to Taylor Swift in 2012, Kick called the star "really sweet."

Though the relationship was short-lived, Swift was spotted spending time with Conor and the Kennedy family at their compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, in summer 2012.

"She's really sweet. It was a moment, really," Kick Kennedy told the New York Post in 2014 when asked what it was like for the superstar to date her brother. "But we always have exciting things going on — exciting people to meet."

Swift and Conor Kennedy's relationship reportedly ended in October 2012, though the fling may have inspired a few songs on her fourth studio album, "Red."

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Her own dating life has been pretty low profile.

Kick Kennedy dated Paul Simon's son Harper in 2014, E! News reported.

She later dated Matthew Mellon, a member of the wealthy Mellon family, before he died on his way to a drug-treatment facility in 2018, People reported.

Outlets reported earlier this month that she was getting to know Ben Affleck in the wake of his very public divorce from Jennifer Lopez.

Page Six reported that the two had been spotted together at the Polo Lounge in the Beverly Hills Hotel, though Affleck's representative told People the two weren't dating.

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She's acted in several television shows over the years.

Kick Kennedy has appeared in several one-off episodes of popular shows like "Curb Your Enthusiasm," "Gossip Girl," and "The Newsroom."

She also acted in an off-Broadway play in 2014, which "Today" called a "modern retelling" of Sophocles' "Antigone."

"I'm really lucky," she told The Associated Press at the time. "I've grown a lot just studying this part and I hope I can do it justice. I couldn't really ask for a better story to tell right now. It's just sort of magical that everything fell into place."

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She's since shied away from the spotlight to focus on philanthropy.

Kick Kennedy is a member of the founders' circle of the charity Well Beings, an organization that focuses on "the well-being of animals, people, and the planet," according to the company's mission statement.

While she's a member of one of the country's most famous and influential political families, she has spoken publicly about not wanting to rely on her pedigree to get ahead.

"People ask me, 'What's it like to be a Kennedy?'" Kick Kennedy said in a 2014 interview with the New York Post. "Maybe it's just the temperature of the water, but I'm just like, 'I have no idea.'"

"When I see my face or name in the tabloids, I get a knot in my stomach. It's just not me — it's reading something that's not real," she added.

She has, for now, a relatively modest 25,000 followers on Instagram.