How the Kennedys are chalking up Jack Schlossberg's 'embarrassing' behavior to his father's side of the family

Jerry Oppenheimer is simply a bestselling biographer who has written 2 books astir the Kennedy family, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and The Dark Side of the Dream, and The Other Mrs. Kennedy: Ethel Skakel Kennedy, An American Drama of Power, Privilege, and Politics.

The Kennedy household is refusing to 'take blasted oregon responsibility' for the behaviour of President John F. Kennedy's quirky lone grandson, Jack Schlossberg, declaring he's much 'Schlossberg than Kennedy,' insiders person exclusively told DailyMail.com.

The sources accidental Jack, who turned 32 past month, has matured with the 'looks and attitude' of his father, the eccentric and precise backstage Edwin Schlossberg, 73, alternatively than Jack's beloved mother, Caroline Kennedy, 67, who was JFK's lone daughter, and who ne'er took her husband's name.

The elder Schlossberg is simply a decorator and creator was erstwhile described arsenic 'Camelot's egghead-in-residence,' and 'a well-to-do hippie-yuppie who's self-consciously interesting…a Renaissance antheral without a renaissance,' successful a lengthy SPY mag profile.

A progressive millennial Democrat, his son, Jack, has ignited 'an embarrassing earthquake' wrong the Kennedy household by regularly appearing connected societal media, and infamously berating radical ranging from his second-cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to blimpish writer Megyn Kelly with hateful and bizarre rants.

But according to a household insider: 'Members of the Kennedy family, though embarrassed by and for Jack, are adamant that they consciousness nary blasted oregon work for his boorish online shenanigans.

'They consciousness Jack's acheronian persona is simply a wide lawsuit of "like father, similar son". That he's a spot disconnected the aged artifact who inherited much the traits and characteristics of his begetter than having the Kennedy attributes of his mother.'

And Jack has himself made that distinction.

In an Instagram station past November, helium compared his carnal characteristics to his father, alternatively than his mother.

'I americium my father's schnoz,' helium sarcastically wrote, suggesting helium has much Schlossberg DNA than Kennedy. 

And successful effect to suggestions that his famed Kennedy ancestry is overplayed, helium declared he's conscionable 'a Jew named Schlossberg.'

Most would hold that helium doesn't lucifer his handsome grandfather, JFK, oregon immoderate different antheral Kennedy for that matter.

In 1 Instagram station helium besides curiously noted that helium didn't look similar the actors, 'Penn Badgley oregon Adam Driver,' but weirdly noted: 'I look similar Audrey Hepburn.'

Jack's father, Ed Schlossberg, is from a well-to-do, but publically little-known New York City Jewish merchant household successful the textile business.

He joined Caroline Kennedy successful Our Lady of Victory Roman Catholic Church connected Cape Cod connected July 19, 1986, aft courting her for respective years. The 2 met portion they some worked astatine the Metropolitan Museum.

'It was similar a communicative enactment retired of a Woody Allen movie,' a person of the mates noted.

At the clip of the wedding, Schlossberg had a Ph.D successful subject and lit from Columbia, and was the writer of 9 books, among them, The Home Computer Handbook, The Pocket Calculator Game Book, and The All-New Fact-Filled 1977-78 CB Guide.

As an outsider who wed into America's astir celebrated – and infamous – clan Ed Schlossberg has ever avoided giving interviews and has despised publicity regarding his backstage beingness – a trait besides inherited by his lad who avoids the press, but savors expressing himself controversially online. 

Most recently, however, Jack Schlossberg deleted his accounts connected X and Instagram after engaging successful a bid of societal media spats with Kelly and DailyMail.com columnist Maureen Callahan. 

'I'm atrocious to everyone I hurt. I was wrong,' helium wrote successful his last station past week. 'I'm deleting each my societal media. Forever. It's been fun. Thanks anyways everyone.' 

On a podcast with MSNBC's Jen Psaki, Schlossberg tried to explicate his societal media posts.

'I usage my judgement to marque posts that I deliberation are comic oregon silly but person a purpose, either to marque you deliberation this guy's crazy. "Why is helium talking astir his ain household that way?"

'But to beryllium honest, past you get each these retweets, quotes, and everybody flips retired astir it.

'I deliberation that the net is simply a spot wherever it's hard to interruption through, and it's hard to interruption done particularly if you're not saying thing that's controversial, oregon astatine least, someway unexpected,' helium added. 

In February 2013, erstwhile I was reporting connected a communicative astir him portion Jack was a 20-year-old sophomore astatine Yale, helium declined to speech to me, but alternatively assigned his champion person to enactment arsenic his spokesperson and reply my questions. The person besides asked to stay anonymous.

Like his son, Schlossberg's begetter has agelong been a arguable fig wrong the Kennedy family, reveals a adjacent source.  

A delicate Kennedy household contented with Ed successful the halfway erupted successful the aftermath of the tragic decease of Caroline's brother, John F. Kennedy Jr. – who was the champion antheral astatine Ed and Caroline's nuptials – successful a 1999 level clang that besides took the beingness of his woman Carolyn Bessette and her sister Lauren.

In the aftermath of the crash, a conflict was brewing betwixt the Kennedy and Bessette families implicit burial plans.

Anne Freeman, Bessette's parent had wanted burial adjacent Greenwich, Connecticut, the determination of her household home. But  the Besettes feared that the Kennedys mightiness beryllium readying to person the mates buried successful the Kennedy household crippled successful Massachusetts .

To hash retired the burial controversy, a concealed gathering was held successful New York attended by Ed and Ted Kennedy's wife, Vicki Reggie, according to references successful RFK Jr.'s diary. 

In the extremity it was decided that John, Carolyn and Lauren's bodies would beryllium cremated and their ashes buried astatine sea.

In his diary, that was leaked to the New York Post, RFK Jr. disclosed that: 'All the Bessette household knows that Ed hated Carolyn and did everything successful his powerfulness to marque her beingness miserable and…he bullied, bullied, bullied the shattered, grieving mother.'

Years later, Bobby Jr. would beryllium a people of nasty online remarks by Schlossberg's son, Jack, who joined with different Kennedys successful supporting Joe Biden's re-election while  RFK Jr. was inactive running arsenic an autarkic candidate. 

He aboriginal suspended his run and endorsed Donald Trump's winning Republican statesmanlike bid. 

And past month, Jack's mother, Caroline, who had served arsenic U.S. ambassador to Australia successful the Obama administration, sensationally branded RFK Jr., her archetypal cousin, a 'predator' conscionable earlier his Senate confirmation hearing for his relation arsenic Trump's Secretary of Health and Human Services to 'Make America Healthy Again.'

Meanwhile, regarding the Bessette controversy, Bobby noted that astatine the work for the household successful Greenwich, Connecticut, helium had tried to 'get done arsenic a bully worker and making lone affirmative comments and thoughts' astir Schlossberg.

But RFK Jr. stated astatine 1 constituent Schlossberg had stopped him from delivering a eulogy. 

He besides said that Carolyn Bessette's sole surviving sister, Lisa, was told by Schlossberg: 'Kennedys don't eulogize non-Kennedys.'

In different diary entry, RFK Jr. wrote that the woman of JFK Jr.'s adjacent relative Anthony Radziwill, who had died of testicular crab a period aft the level crash, had called to sermon what she characterized arsenic Schlossberg's despotic and arrogant behavior.

'She says she wants to commencement an "I hatred Ed Club," RFK Jr. wrote. 'There would beryllium many, galore members. John & Carolyn would person surely applied.'

In different controversy, JFK Jr. and Schlossberg got into a heated quality aft Schlossberg had inserted himself, uninvited into a task for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts successful Washington.

Schlossberg wanted to beryllium progressive successful making a movie astir President Kennedy's relation successful the arts.

When John Jr. heard astir it, helium was furious, a Kennedy person told maine successful an interrogation for my book.

'It was each John could speech about,' the pal recalled. 

'He went connected and connected astir however Ed should person consulted with him and questioned whether Ed should beryllium progressive successful the task anyway…he saw Ed's engagement successful the tribute arsenic poaching. 

'The 2 of them sparred, which resulted successful the project's cancellation.'