34 “any business telling a Kennedy what to do”: Shnayerson.
35 Sets Marisa up with a therapist, Taraborrelli, The Kennedy Heirs, 229.
36 “not your place”: Taraborrelli, 238.
37 “He’s been trying to save everyone, left and right”: Taraborrelli, 261.
38 “He admitted to me”: Shnayerson, “Bobby’s Kids.”
39 “Nobody can stab you in the back”: Taraborrelli, The Kennedy Heirs, 237.
40 “it was a bum rap”: Alex Kuczynski, “For Writers, a Murder Case That Had all the Ingredients,” New York Times, January 20, 2000.
41 William Kennedy Smith never met any Skakels except Ethel: Kennedy, “A Miscarriage of Justice.”
42 “Michael Skakel is guilty of this murder”: Craig Offman, “Kennedy Cousin Confesses Crush on Murdered Girl,” Salon, November 9, 1999.
43 “Dead Man Talking”: Offman, “Kennedy Cousin Confesses Crush on Murdered Girl.”
44 “he has ultimately trapped himself”: David M. Herszenhorn, “Prosecutors Weave a Web of Inferences,” New York Times, June 4, 2002.
45 “the state’s case is entirely circumstantial”: David M. Herszenhorn, “Final Defense Witness Bolsters Skakel Alibi, Saying It Matches Victim’s Hour of Death,” New York Times, May 29, 2002.
47 Marisa Verrochi for Skakel defense: Orla Healy, “Ghosts Come Back to Haunt Kennedys,” Independent (UK), May 26, 2002.
48 “a very, very, very good case”: Jessica Gresko and Dave Collins, “Supreme Court Rejects Michael Skakel Case; Kennedy Cousin’s Vacated Murder Conviction Stands,” Washington Times, January 7, 2019.
49 “The evidence shows”: Joseph Ax, “US Supreme Court Won't Reinstate Murder Conviction for Kennedy Kin,” Reuters, January 7, 2019.
50 “Michael dished some pretty nasty dirt”: Bill Hewitt, “The Reckoning,” People, May 27, 2002.
Chapter 51
1 “potentially irreparable harm”: Sara Rimer, “A Kennedy Faces the Fallout from a Scandal,” New York Times, July 10, 1997.
2 “great pain and suffering”: Michael Shnayerson, “Bobby’s Kids,” Vanity Fair, August 1997.
3 “without the willing involvement”: “Mass. Prosecutor Ends Probe of Michael Kennedy,” Washington Post, July 9, 1997.
4 “do all I can to make up”: “Mass. Prosecutor Ends Probe of Michael Kennedy.”
5 “easier to get an AA meeting together”: Shnayerson, “Bobby’s Kids.”
6 “none of the RFK sisters”: Shnayerson.
7 “None of the rakehell appetites”: Debra Rosenberg, “A Dynasty in Decline,” Newsweek, June 22, 1997.
8 “the best the family represents”: Shnayerson, “Bobby’s Kids.”
9 “I should pick up the torch…er, pick up the flag”: Rosenberg, “A Dynasty in Decline.”
10 “walk right into the governor’s office”: Elizabeth Mehren, “Crisis Crosses Camelot’s Moat in Massachusetts,” Los Angeles Times, May 6, 1997.
11 “poster boys for bad behavior”: Kate Storey, “‘It Was Just the F*cking Coolest’: The Inside Story of JFK Jr.’s ‘George’ Magazine,” Esquire, April 22, 2019.
12 “apologize on television for getting divorced”: Storey, “It Was Just the F*cking Coolest.”
13 Joe on Good Morning America: Shnayerson, “Bobby’s Kids.”
14 “Ask not what you can do for your cousin”: Leslie Doolittle, “JFK Jr.’s Tsk-Tsk Pooh-Poohed,” Orlando Sentinel, August 12, 1997.
15 “probably wishes he hadn’t written it”: Thomas W. Waldron, “Moral Message Oldest Kennedy Grandchild Tries to Balance Demands of Public Office with Life in Her Famous Family; Kathleen Kennedy Townsend,” Baltimore Sun, August 31, 1997.
16 “the landfill of tabloid dreck”: Margaret Carlson, “Divorce, Kennedy-style,” Time, May 12, 1997.
Chapter 52
1 “accustomed to both controversy and criticism”: Elizabeth Mehren, “Crisis Crosses Camelot’s Moat in Massachusetts,” Los Angeles Times, May 6, 1997.
2 “Never forget that you are a Kennedy”: J. Randy Taraborrelli, The Kennedy Heirs (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2019), 170.
3 “Kennedys all take care of each other”: Patrick Rogers, “Death in Aspen,” People, January 19, 1998.
4 “overwhelming sense of a continuing commitment”: Dan Dalz, “Legacy of Untimely Death Continues,” Washington Post, January 2, 1998.
5 “You’re a Kennedy. You have to pull it together”: Taraborrelli, The Kennedy Heirs, 265.
6 Christmas in Colorado: Rogers, “Death in Aspen.”
7 “the central thing in Michael’s life”: Rogers.
8 Aspen Mountain on New Year’s Eve 1997: Tom Kenworthy, “Michael Kennedy Dies in Accident on Aspen Slopes,” Washington Post, January 1, 1998.
9 “They hang at the top of the mountain”: Michael Janofsky, “Favorite Game for Kennedys Took Deadly Turn on Slopes,” New York Times, January 2, 1998.
10 Conflicting reports: Janofsky, “Favorite Game for Kennedys Took Deadly Turn on Slopes.”
11 “A tremendous drive for living on the edge”: Rogers, “Death in Aspen.”
12 “two weeks without a visit to the emergency room”: Debra Rosenberg, “A Dynasty in Decline,” Newsweek, June 22, 1997.
13 “An unbelievably good athlete”: Michael Shnayerson, “Bobby’s Kids,” Vanity Fair, August 1997.
14 “wherever he could test himself at the edge”: Rebecca Mowbray, “Kennedy Family, Friends Say Farewell to Michael,” Los Angeles Times, January 4, 1998.
15 “The greatest athlete of our generation”: Taraborrelli, The Kennedy