Mass.
Press Is Ignoring New Story about Ted Kennedy's Illegitimate Son
Other
than a terse few paragraphs by gossip queens Gayle Fee and Laura
Raposa in the Boston Herald, the media in Boston has spiked the
story first revealed by the National Enquirer about the existence
of an illegitimate son of Sen. Ted Kennedy.
The
Enquirer ran the story last week, citing a confidential source who
named the son and his mother, and provided some details about her
life after Kennedy angrily dismissed her from his life for refusing
to abort the child.
According
to the Enquirer ““Caroline (Bilodeau) announced to the family that she was
two months pregnant around May 1984,” blabbed a Bilodeau confidante.
“Ted was not happy about the news. He already had three kids with
Joan and knew a baby out of wedlock could hurt him politically.”
According
to the Enquirer, the scandal-scarred senator begged Bilodeau to
have an abortion, but she refused.
“He
told her he couldn’t undergo another scandal — not after Chappaquiddick,
not so close to his divorce from Joan” said the source. “He was
very angry when she defied him and had the child.”
After
the birth of the child, Kennedy is alleged to have undergone a paternity
test. Upon learning the
results, a payoff was made to the mother from someone in the Kennedy
clan and she disappeared into obscurity, until her son, now 21,
came forward.
The
Enquirer’s lawyers are reportedly “very comfortable” with the story,
having sources not only close to Bilodeau, but even within the Kennedy
camp corroborating details of the story.