- Son of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy. Brother of Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Kerry Kennedy, Maxwell Kennedy, and Joseph Kennedy.
- Nephew of John F. Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Patricia Kennedy, Rosemary Kennedy, and Rushton Skakel Sr..
- B.S., Harvard University (1980); University of Virginia Law School (1984)
- Ran the 1994 re-election campaign of his uncle, U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy.
- John Kennedy Jr. slammed him and his brother Joseph as "poster boys for bad behavior" in his magazine, George (August 1997).
- Interred at Holyhood Cemetery (Brookline, MA), where his brother David, who died of a drug overdose in 1984, and their grandparents, Rose Kennedy and Joseph P. Kennedy, are buried.
- Children: Michael Jr. (9 January 1983), Kyle Francis (6 July 1984), Rory Gifford (14 November 1987)
- Ex-son-in-law of ex-football player Frank Gifford.
- Died after colliding with a tree while trying to catch a football thrown by a friend as he sped down a ski slope with one hand and video-taping the scene with the other.
- Ex-brother-in-law of Jeff Gifford.
- His wife, Vicky, had been granted a divorce on November 28, 1997, but it was nullified by his death a month later--A divorce does not become final in Massachusetts for 90 days.
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