Joseph Patrick Kennedy II: Joseph Patrick Kennedy II (born 24 September 1952, in Brighton, Massachusetts), named after his late uncle Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., is the eldest son of the late U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy.
Kennedy reportedly had a troubled childhood. He was expelled from several private schools after having earned the nickname “Dirty Joe” as a result of his quick temper and bullying. He regularly got into fights with his younger brothers and male cousins. He gained early notoriety for a 1973 incident in which a jeep he was driving overturned (according to the police report, due to reckless driving), injuring his brother David Kennedy and paralyzing David’s then-girlfriend, Pam Kelley.
Kennedy received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Massachusetts, Boston in 1976. Kennedy married Sheila Brewster Rauch (b. 22 March 1949) on 3 February 1979 in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, daughter of Rudolph Stewart Rauch and Frances Stuart Brewster. The couple divorced in 1991, and Kennedy married Anne Elizabeth “Beth” Kelly (b. 3 April 1957) on 23 October 1993 in Brighton, Massachusetts.
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