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Kara Kennedy Allen, the eldest daughter of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, died Friday at 51 while exercising at a gym in Washington, DC, according to her brother. ?She's with dad now,? Patrick Kennedy said yesterday. ?Her heart gave out. ...
Allen had gone swimming late Friday afternoon at the Tenley Sport & Health Club, about a mile from her DC home, Boston newspapers reported. She was found unresponsive in the gym?s steam room shortly after her swim by another member. She was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
LOSS: Kara Kennedy Allen in 2008 with her father.Kennedy Allen had battled lung cancer in the past. In 2003, she had a malignant tumor removed.
Born in 1960 while her uncle John F. Kennedy was mounting his campaign for the presidency, Kara was the eldest and most private of Ted Kennedy?s three kids.
A former TV producer, Allen served as the director emeritus of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum in Boston. She also helped run her father?s Senate re-election campaign in 1988.
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