Robert F. Kennedy Jr. responded to allegations in a Vanity Fair article, acknowledging “skeletons in my closet” regarding accusations of sexual assault by a former family babysitter.
He denied claims that a photo showed him with a barbecued dog, asserting it was actually a goat carcass, and clarified he had sent the photo to a friend referencing a restaurant in Korea known for serving dog meat.
“Hey @VanityFair,” Kennedy wrote on social media platform X, “you know when your veterinary experts call a goat a dog, and your forensic experts say a photo taken in Patagonia was taken in Korea, that you’ve joined the ranks of supermarket tabloids.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has clarified that the photo in question, which shows him with a barbecued animal carcass, was taken in 2010, according to the metadata of the digital file.
This was the same year he was diagnosed with a parasite in his brain, from which he has since fully recovered, as confirmed by his campaign.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an independent presidential candidate running against Joe Biden and Donald Trump, has been labeled a potential “spoiler” in the November 5 election due to his candidacy potentially drawing votes away from both major-party candidates.
A Vanity Fair article also reported allegations from 1998 involving Kennedy and his then-wife Mary Richardson hiring a 23-year-old woman named Eliza Cooney as their part-time babysitter. Cooney alleged that Kennedy groped her in the family kitchen, according to the magazine.
When asked about the allegation, Kennedy told a podcast on Tuesday,
“I am not a church boy. I had a very, very rambunctious youth,” he told podcaster Saagar Enjeti. “I said in my announcement speech that I have so many skeletons in my closet that if they could all vote, I could run for king of the world.”
