Tatiana Scholssberg, the environmental journalist, author and granddaughter of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy, died on Tuesday, December 30, at 35. She was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in November 2025.
The news of her passing was shared on the social media account for the JFK Foundation with a statement that reads, “Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts.”
The statement was signed by her husband, George Moran and the kids Edwin and Josephine Moran.
Additionally, Tatiana's parents, Ed and Caroline Kennedy, signed the post as well.
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Who is husband George Moran and kids?
George Moran is a physician and urologist widely recognized for his dedication to patient care and his work in urologic health.
Tatiana and Moran first met as undergraduates at Yale University. Tatiana focused on history and environmental journalism while Moran pursued medical studies.
In her New Yorker essay, where she announced her lukemia diagnosis, she lovingly described Moran as “kind, funny, handsome genius” and a rock throughout her medical journey.
{{/usCountry}}In her New Yorker essay, where she announced her lukemia diagnosis, she lovingly described Moran as “kind, funny, handsome genius” and a rock throughout her medical journey.
{{/usCountry}}She also wrote, “George did everything for me that he possibly could. He talked to all the doctors and insurance people that I didn’t want to talk to; he slept on the floor of the hospital; he didn’t get mad when I was raging on steroids and yelled at him that I did not like Schweppes ginger ale, only Canada Dry.”
The couple married on September 9, 2017, in an intimate ceremony held at the Kennedy family estate on Martha’s Vineyard.
Their first child, Edwin Garret Moran, is named after her dad and was born in 2022. The couple had another daughter in 2024, Joshephine Moran, after which Tatiana was diagnosed with cancer.
In her New Yorker essay, she talks about her grief of not being able to spend more time with her kids. She writes that her son might “start confusing them [memories] with pictures he sees or stories he hears.”
She also shares about her inability to take care of her newborn daughter and “whether she will feel or remember, when I am gone, that I am her mother.”
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Health battle and final days
Shortly after the birth of her daughter Josephine, doctors detected an unusually high white blood-cell count.
Tatiana underwent intensive treatment that included chemotherapy, bone-marrow transplants and participation in CAR-T-cell therapy trials, though her condition ultimately proved terminal.
In November 2025, she shared her prognosis in The New Yorker, revealing she had been told she might have about a year to live.