Mary Kennedy Abuse - Robert Kennedy Jr.’s wife, Mary, beat him up, tried to blackmail him, killed the family dog and, finally, told a servant she needed rope for a new couch — then hanged herself with it, according to a bombshell report.
“Mary’s violence and physical abuse toward me began before we were married,” Bobby said in confidential court papers that surfaced yesterday.
“Soon after Mary became pregnant with our first son, Mary — in a sudden rage about my continued friendship with my ex-wife — hit me in the face with her fist,’’ Bobby said in an affidavit filed as part of his then-custody battle with his estranged wife.
“She was a trained boxer, and I got a shiner,’’ Bobby said. “Her engagement ring crushed my tear duct, causing permanent damage. Mary asked me to lie to her family about the cause of my shiner.”
Bobby said that at one point after they separated, Mary “said she intended to kill herself unless I called off the divorce and unless I promised to recommit to the marriage.’’
He admitted he started cheating on her — but hinted it was her own fault because of her behavior.
He added to the judge that despite years of her abusing him, “she repeatedly says she will call the police and say that I beat her if I threaten to leave her.’’
The sealed, 60-page document was obtained by Kennedy historian Laurence Leamer, who reported on the contents in the new issue of Newsweek.
In addition to quoting the court papers, the magazine also said that in the weeks before she died, Mary Kennedy asked her housekeeper’s husband to buy her a rope — supposedly for a couch she was making. She then combed the Internet for tips on constructing a noose.
Bobby, the housekeeper and her husband found Mary’s body hanging from a barn rafter May 16 at the family’s Mary’s Westchester estate, sources told the magazine.
At the time, the mother of four was facing the real possibility of losing custody of her children to her estranged husband as she grew increasingly erratic and drank more often, according to her housekeeper.
One day, “I saw her in the kitchen, like, with her head down, and I was like, ‘Oh, golly, she’s talking on the phone and crying,’ ” recalled the maid, who has lived with the Kennedys since their 1994 marriage.
“But then I got close to her, and she was passed out. The plate of food was old, and her face was on top of the plate. And that day, she was drinking a lot,” the woman told Newsweek.
In the three days leading up to her death, Mary rarely got out of bed, the maid said.
Mary had become increasingly despondent over Bobby’s May 2010 divorce filing.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/revealed_mary_abuse_of_bobby_3wJdV4i6EQJ4Ahy50oGnoM#ixzz1xUy7rdIs
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