Jfk Jr. Will Leaves Property To Sister's Children; Other Bequests To Friends, Charities
NEW YORK - John F. Kennedy Jr. left his personal property to his sister's three children and money from a multimillion-dollar trust to family, friends and charities.
Kennedy's will, filed yesterday in Manhattan Surrogate's Court, does not state the value of Kennedy's estate but says it is worth more than $1 million. Kennedy's net worth had been estimated as ranging from $30 million to $100 million.
The document, signed Dec. 19, 1997, fails to specify monetary bequests except to say several beneficiaries are provided for through a trust that Kennedy established in 1983.
Kennedy, 38, his wife, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, 33, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, 34, died after the single-engine Piper Saratoga airplane he was piloting plunged 1,100 feet into the waters off Martha's Vineyard on July 16.
In addition to getting all of Kennedy's personal property, the children of Kennedy's sister will also receive bequests under his 1983 trust. The children of Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Scholossberg are Rose Kennedy Schlossberg, 11, Tatiana Kennedy Schlossberg, 9, and John Kennedy Schlossberg, 6.
Kennedy also left financial bequests under the 1983 trust to people who worked for his parents.
They include Ephigenia Pinheiro, the personal assistant to his mother, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and Marta Sgubin, a former Kennedy family cook and governess to him and Caroline.
Another beneficiary is Rosemarie Terenzio, Kennedy's assistant at George, the social and political-interest magazine he founded.
Kennedy also left money to charities and institutions, including Reaching Up , a New York organization for the mentally disabled, and the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library Foundation in Boston.
There was no mention of his magazine or how his interest in it should be handled.