The New York Times<\/a>.<\/em> (Both men have denied committing the murder.)<\/p>\nAsked about Kennedy\u2019s conclusions, Martha Moxley\u2019s mother, Dorothy, said she had \u201cnever seen the truth so twisted and manipulated in my entire life.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kennedy conceded that his claims were \u201ccontroversial.\u201d \u201cAnytime you do anything controversial, you lose constituents,\u201d he told the Times.<\/em> \u201cYou lose support because people have opinions.\u201d<\/p>\nThe book, hyped by Alan Dershowitz (also a Skyhorse author) and Bill O\u2019Reilly, further buttressed Kennedy\u2019s identity as a serial white knight jousting with the prevailing establishment, whether the justice system, corporate polluters, or the pharmaceutical industry\u2014or later, President Biden, the Democratic National Committee, and his own family.<\/p>\n
In 1994 Kennedy married Richardson, who had been Kerry Kennedy\u2019s best friend since they attended Putney School in Vermont together. She and Bobby had four children, Conor, Kyra, Aidan, and Finn. In the fall of 1998, the Kennedys hired a 23-year-old woman, Eliza Cooney, as their part-time babysitter. She was a recent college graduate interested in working on environmental causes and had looked after Kerry\u2019s and Max\u2019s children in Hyannis Port that summer. Cooney moved into Bobby and Mary\u2019s family home in Mount Kisco, New York, taking care of the kids and assisting Bobby at his environmental law clinic at Pace University during the week.<\/p>\n
One night Cooney attended a meeting in the family kitchen with Kennedy and another young Riverkeeper volunteer named Murray Fisher to discuss business when she felt Kennedy\u2019s hand moving up and down her leg under the table. She tried making sense of the incident in her diary, which I have read. In an entry dated November 7, 1998, she wrote:<\/p>\n
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From everything everybody says about the Kennedys + their Babysitters, they had me worried. Like I have to watch out, be careful. And the other night in the kitchen w\/ Murray I could have sworn he was touching my leg + hand. It seemed like he thought I was somebody else or wasn\u2019t paying attention. Like he would come to every once in a while and snap out of it or I would move away. It was like he was on something or really tired or was missing Mary or was testing me.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\u201cIn the back of my mind, I was hoping it wasn\u2019t what it actually was,\u201d says Cooney, now 48. (Reached for comment, Fisher says he worked closely with Cooney and liked her, but wasn’t aware of her alleged experiences with Kennedy at the time, and feels bad for her.)<\/p>\n
Weeks later, she discovered Kennedy standing in her bedroom. She saw that her diary, which chronicled her daily activities and detailed her romantic life with a boyfriend, was open next to her bed. And she was shocked when a shirtless Kennedy, then 45, asked her to rub lotion on his back. \u201cI thought, Isn\u2019t Mary home?\u201d she recalls. \u201cDoesn\u2019t she do this for you?\u201d<\/p>\n
She did it reluctantly and quickly. \u201cIt was totally inappropriate,\u201d she says, adding that she stopped recording these experiences in her journal, fearing Kennedy would read them.<\/p>\n
A few months later, Cooney says, she was rifling through the kitchen pantry for lunch after a yoga class, still in her sports bra and leggings, when Kennedy came up behind her, blocked her inside the room, and began groping her, putting his hands on her hips and sliding them up along her rib cage and breasts. \u201cMy back was to the door of the pantry, and he came up behind me,\u201d she says, describing the alleged sexual assault. \u201cI was frozen. Shocked.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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