Ben Affleck thrust into story about RFK Jr. decapitating a dead whale

Ben Affleck probably never expected that media coverage of his dramatic divorce from Jennifer Lopez would lead to another unsavory tale about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. desecrating the corpse of a large animal for his own amusement.

But that’s what happened over the weekend. After Lopez filed for divorce early last week, Affleck’s name popped up in connection with Kick Kennedy, a 36-year-old sometime Hollywood actor, who happens to be the oldest daughter of the polarizing Kennedy. Page Six reported that Affleck and Kick have been “spending time” together amid his divorce from Lopez, turning up together at the Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel and other hotspots.

ARLINGTON, VA - JUNE 06: Kick Kennedy, daugther of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and grandaughter of Robert F. Kennedy attends a Remembrance and Celebration of the Life & Enduring Legacy of Robert F. Kennedy event at Arlington National Cemetery on June 6, 2018 in Arlington, Virginia. (Photo by Leigh Vogel/Getty Images for RFK Human Rights )
ARLINGTON, VA – JUNE 06: Kick Kennedy, daughter of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and grand-daughter of Robert F. Kennedy attends a Remembrance and Celebration of the Life & Enduring Legacy of Robert F. Kennedy event at Arlington National Cemetery on June 6, 2018 in Arlington, Virginia. (Photo by Leigh Vogel/Getty Images for RFK Human Rights ) 

While the nature of Affleck and Kick’s relationship remains “unclear,” the fascination with their association is no doubt fueled by the fact that she’s the daughter of the polarizing politician and Kennedy heir.

The one-time environmentalist and Democrat-turned-independent anti-vaccine crusader also has been in the news over the past week, as he suspended his presidential campaign Friday and endorsed Donald Trump. Kennedy’s Trump endorsement prompted immediate denunciation from five of his siblings, who said he has betrayed “the values” that their father and family “hold most dear.”

As expected, Affleck’s connection to Kick Kennedy prompted lots of internet sleuthing, with the sleuths landing on a 2012 Town and Country profile about her. And, in the profile, the writer shared how the then-24-year-old socialite and budding actor and philanthropist recounted one of her father’s acts of “extreme environmentalism.”

In 1994, when Kick was 6 and she was vacationing with her family at the Kennedy family compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, her father learned that a dead whale had washed up on a nearby beach, Town and Country reported. As part of his environmentalism, Kennedy apparently liked to study animal skulls and skeletons. So he rushed out to the beach with a chainsaw and his young daughter in tow. He cut the whale’s head off, secured it to the roof of his minivan with bungee cords and made the five-hour drive back to the family’s home in New York.

“Every time we accelerated on the highway, whale juice would pour into the windows of the car, and it was the rankest thing on the planet,” Kick recalled to Town and Country. “We all had plastic bags over our heads with mouth holes cut out, and people on the highway were giving us the finger, but that was just normal day-to-day stuff for us.”

PARK CITY, UT - JANUARY 21: (L-R) Actress Cheryl Hines, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Kick Kennedy attend attends Day 2 of Miami Oasis at the T-Mobile Google Music Village at The Lift on January 21, 2012 in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Best Events)
PARK CITY, UT – JANUARY 21: (L-R) Actress Cheryl Hines, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Kick Kennedy attend attends Day 2 of Miami Oasis at the T-Mobile Google Music Village at The Lift on January 21, 2012 in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Best Events) 

Kick’s story about her father desecrating the whale corpse brings to mind another of one of his recent controversies, which also involved a wild animal. Earlier this month, Kennedy went on social media to admit that he was the person who dumped a dead bear cub in Central Park in 2014, sparking an infamous incident that prompted an animal cruelty investigation that was never solved, the Daily Beast reported.

Kennedy posted a social media video “to get ahead” of a New Yorker story, which was going expose the bear cub-dumping incident. He explained in a video chat with comedian Roseanne Barr that he was driving through the Hudson Valley to meet friends to go falconing. He came upon the “roadkill” black bear cub and thought it was in “good” enough condition to skin for meat, so he put it in the back of his van and drove around with it for the day. But after realizing he couldn’t get home anytime soon to refrigerate the dead bear, he and his friends decided to leave it in Central Park.

“We thought it would be amusing for whoever found it,” Kennedy told Barr in the video.

Meanwhile, Kennedy’s daughter has been making news for being connected to one of the most infamous celebrity divorces in a long time. People are naturally trying to learn more about her.

According to her IMDB page, she’s had a sporadic Hollywood career, playing small parts in “Gossip Girl,” “The Newsroom,” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” alongside her stepmother Cheryl Hines. She is named for her great aunt Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy, the independent-minded sister of Robert F. Kennedy and John F. Kennedy, who married into the British aristocracy but died in a plane crash in 1948.

Singer Marc Anthony, left, and wife Jennifer Lopez pose for photographers at the Friends of the Los Angeles Free Clinic Annual Dinner Gala held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel Monday, Nov. 20, 2006.
Singer Marc Anthony, left, and wife Jennifer Lopez pose for photographers at the Friends of the Los Angeles Free Clinic Annual Dinner Gala held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel Monday, Nov. 20, 2006. 

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