All’s whale that ends whale.
Kick Kennedy, the daughter of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and apparent new pal of recently divorced Ben Affleck, regaled Town & Country with a real whale of a tale in a 2012 cover story that recently resurfaced after the Camelot scion announced his departure from the 2024 presidential race.
In a wide-ranging interview with the then-24-year-old, which covered her travels, her budding acting career and her family legacy, Kennedy shared a bizarre anecdote about a childhood trip to Hyannis Port, Mass., where her dad’s at-times-bizarre fascination with dead animals was on full display.
After learning a whale carcass had washed ashore on Squaw Island, her dad excitedly bounded down to the beach, chainsaw in hand, and decapitated it right then and there before strapping the beast’s head to the family minivan with a bungee cord so he could study it at home later.
The family then endured a five-hour drive back to Mount Kisco, NY, during which RFK’s malodorous prize relentlessly assailed every bodily sense, the younger Kennedy recalled in excruciating, near-gag-inducing detail.
“Every time we accelerated on the highway, whale juice would pour into the windows of the car, and it was the rankest thing on the planet,” she told the magazine.
“We all had plastic bags over our heads with mouth holes cut out, and people on the highway were giving us the finger, but that was just normal day-to-day stuff for us.”
It wasn’t made clear in the article whether RFK successfully extricated the mammal’s skull from its head once he got it home, but it couldn’t have gone worse than his attempt with a bear cub around two years later.
The elder Kennedy made headlines — and raised eyebrows — earlier this month when he copped to dumping a dead bear cub in Central Park a decade ago after the 70-year-old’s botched effort to skin it.
In a viral interview with Roseanne Barr, Kennedy claimed he found the deceased cub on a falconing trip in Goshen, NY, after a woman driving in front of him hit it with her car.
“So I pulled over and I picked up the bear and put him in the back of my van because I was going to skin the bear and it was in very good condition and I was going to put the meat in my refrigerator,” he recalled.
Later in the interview, he recounted how some of his buddies were drinking and thought it would be a good idea to dump the dead bear in the park and “make it look like he got hit by a bike.”
Kick, now 36, has recently been seen hanging out with newly minted divorcee Affleck, 52, around hotspots like the Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel, a Hollywood insider told Page Six this week. However, the nature of their relationship is not yet known.
Carol Dennis is an entertainment aficionado with an eye for all things pop culture. She dives into the glitz and glamour of the entertainment industry, from movie premieres to music festivals. Carol’s passion for storytelling extends beyond her reporting, as she’s an aspiring screenwriter in her free time.
