Caroline Kennedy - Education and Personal Life

Education and Personal Life

Kennedy attended The Brearley School and Convent of the Sacred Heart in New York City and, in 1975, graduated from Concord Academy in Massachusetts. In 1980, she received her Bachelor of Arts from Radcliffe College at Harvard University. In 1988, she received a Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School, graduating in the top ten percent of her class. During college, Kennedy "considered becoming a photojournalist, but soon realized she could never make her living observing other people because they were too busy watching her." At the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, she was a Photographer's Assistant. In 1977, she became a summer intern at the New York Daily News, earning $156 a week, "fetching coffee for harried editors and reporters, changing typewriter ribbons and delivering messages." Kennedy reportedly "sat on a bench alone for two hours the first day before other employees even said hello to her"; and, according to Richard Licata, a former News reporter, "Everyone was too scared."

In addition, Kennedy wrote for Rolling Stone about visiting Graceland shortly after the death of Elvis Presley. After graduating from college in 1980, Kennedy was hired as a Research Assistant in the Film and Television Department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. She later became a "liaison officer between the museum staff and outside producers and directors shooting footage at the museum", helping coordinate the Sesame Street special Don't Eat the Pictures. While at her museum job, Kennedy met her future husband and exhibit designer, Edwin Schlossberg. Kennedy and Schlossberg were married on July 19, 1986, at Our Lady of Victory Church in Centerville, Massachusetts. Kennedy's matron of honor includes her paternal uncle, U.S. Senator Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy, and her cousin, Maria Shriver. Although Kennedy is often incorrectly referred to as "Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg", she did not change her name when she married. Kennedy and Schlossberg have three children: Rose, Tatiana, and John; and they live in New York City.

Kennedy owns her mother's 375-acre (1.52 km2) estate known as Red Gate Farm in Aquinnah (formerly Gay Head) on the island of Martha's Vineyard. The New York Daily News estimated Kennedy's net worth in 2008 at over $100 million. Living in New York and somewhat apart from their Hyannisport cousins, Caroline and John, Jr. were very close, especially after their mother's death on May 19, 1994. John, Jr. died in a plane crash on July 16, 1999, leaving Caroline the sole survivor of the President's immediate family.