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But theres the skinny: Kerry proposed to Julia Stimson Thorne just days before he shipped out to Vietnam, and they wed in a Catholic church upon his return in 1970. Thorne, like nearly all of the woman who have been courted or married by Kerry, comes from big, old money. Her grandfather bought the island of Hilton Head off the coast of South Carolina during the Depression for use as a personal game preserve. Along with a hefty pocketbook one estimate put the Thorne familys fortune at $300 million, Kerry also brought more pedigreeThorne is a descendent of George Washington, with relatives that include Henry Stimson, the secretary of state under President Hoover and secretary of war under Presidents Roosevelt and Truman. Kerrys mothers ancestors include the first governor of Colonial Massachusetts. And Kerry had rich relatives, the Forbeses, who put him through top boarding schools and Yale, giving him his taste of high living, which he has since found unquenchable. The couple had two daughters, Alexandra in 1973 and Vanessa in 1976, but all was not bliss in the Kerry mansions. They separated in 1982 when Kerry was Massachusetts lieutenant governor, with Thorne in the depths of a severe depression and on the brink of suicide, which she blamed on her husbands cold and distant nature, his long absences, and his fierce ambition which she was bankrolling. The separation came as Kerry was mulling a bid to run for the Senate seat vacated by Paul Tsongas in 1984; Thorne said she still associates politics only with anger, fear, and loneliness. In 1988, the final divorce went through she later wrote a self-help manual, A Change Of Heart, designed to help other unhappily married couples;
Finally, a Democratic presidential candidate with good taste in women, Jay Leno said last month, goofing on former President Clintons proclivity for affairs with showy, big-haired and mostly unattractive consorts. When advisers told Kerry to cool it with the hotties, he set his sights on the Mozambique-born Teresa Heinz, whose first husband, John, a Republican, died in a plane crash in 1991. Kerry and Heinz had met at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janiero and he escorted Heinz, a devout Catholic, to Mass. He found her very earthy, sexyand very rich, with estimates topping $500 million. Kerry interpreted the move as vindictive and fired back: he asked the Catholic Church to formally annul his failed marriage.
Thorne, who had emerged from her depression, shot a letter to the churchalong with a copy to a Boston newspaper. In vivid language, she said that, as the mother of Kerrys two children, she would not cooperate with a policy that was hypocritical, antifamily and dishonest. Kennedy II and his former wife, Sheila Rauch Kennedy were in the throes of a very messy and very public annulment. He had planned to seek the Massachusetts governorship, but bailed after his ex-wife detailed his bid for an annulment. Months later, he announced he would not seek a seventh term in Congress. At the same time, his brother, Michael, who had served as his campaign manager, was mired in his own scandal over an affair with an underage babysitter. Kennedy vehemently fought the annulment, Thorne, after expressing her displeasure with the church, acquiesced to her ex-husbands wishes.
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