The Irish Star story is based on a new biography, *RFK Jr.: The Fall and Rise*, by investigative journalist Isabel Vincent.
The book reportedly draws on RFK Jr.âs private journals kept in New York City between 1999 and 2001 and said to be updated daily.
A quoted diary entry dated Nov. 11, 2001 describes Kennedy pulling over on I-684 and cutting a dead raccoonâs penis out of the animal while his children waited in the car.
People magazine reports Vincent said Kennedy took the genitals to âstudy them later.â
The article claims the journals were shared with Vincent after Mary Richardson Kennedyâs death by suicide on May 16, 2012, and frames Mary as having held the journals as âleverageâ during their divorce.
The piece adds broader animal-related stories (bear carcass in Central Park; whale incident; feeding hawks via blended animals) without clearly separating confirmed reporting, Kennedyâs own statements, and family allegations.
Separately reported 2024 coverage quotes Kennedy saying he has picked up roadkill his whole life and had a freezer full of it, in the context of press questions about the Central Park bear-carcass story.
The Irish Star also mentions claims about affairs and that Kennedy flew on Jeffrey Epsteinâs plane twice, attributing details to the biography without independently documenting the flight records in the article text.