Mag: Ted K’s secret love child a secret no more
By Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
The National Enquirer splashes this week with a shocking story about Sen. Ted Kennedy’s secret love child with a Cape Cod woman whom the mag says he dated during his days as a swinging single.
According to the tabloid’s source, the boy, named Christopher, just celebrated his 21st birthday and is “mature enough to make his own choices about his background and biological father.”
A Kennedy family confidante told the Enquirer, “This is one of the biggest secrets in the Kennedy family and known to only a few people including Ted’s ex-wife, Joan.”
As for the senator, his spokesgal Melissa Wagoner last night called the tabloid tale “irresponsible fiction.”
Here’s the story according to the Enquirer: Back in 1983, Kennedy, then 51, took up with Caroline Bilodeau, an attractive brunette, several months before divorcing Joan, the mother of his three kids — Kara, Ted Jr. and Patrick.
Bilodeau’s friends told the Enquirer the local lass became so smitten with the senator, she “had dreams about being the next Mrs. Ted Kennedy.” But the love affair came crashing down when Bilodeau told Ted a baby was on the way, the mag reports.
“Caroline announced to the family that she was two months pregnant around May 1984,” blabbed a Bilodeau confidante. “Ted was not happy about the news. He already had three kids with Joan and knew a baby out of wedlock could hurt him politically.”
According to the Enquirer, the scandal-scarred senator begged Bilodeau to have an abortion, but she refused.
“He told her he couldn’t undergo another scandal — not after Chappaquiddick, not so close to his divorce from Joan” said the source. “He was very angry when she defied him and had the child.”
During her pregnancy, Caroline’s friends noticed the unemployed young woman who lived with her parents bought a black Mustang convertible, an expensive Shar-pei puppy and moved into her own apartment.
“Later we learned she received about $15,000 from someone in the Kennedy camp,” said the friend.
When Christopher was born in a Cape Cod hospital in December 1984, Kennedy was nowhere near the delivery room. But he did, according to the Enquirer, take a paternity test shortly thereafter to determine if the child was his.
After Bilodeau got the results, she moved back in with her parents but “always seemed to have money,” said the source.
Kennedy’s former flame did eventually find love with a man she met in a pizzeria. They married and he legally adopted Christopher and raised him as his own son, sources said.
“She has always been very protective of Christopher and wanted him to have a normal life, not the life a Kennedy lives,” said the friend.
Mr. Whitney Houston wants out
Rapper-turned-reality show star Bobby Brown, feeling flush with cash from his TV gig and concert tour, is ready to shed his drug-addled wife, Whitney Houston, and take custody of their 11-year-old daughter.
“Bobby knows he’s running out of time to get back on top,” a family insider told the Enquirer. “So if he’s going to be successful, he has to do it without Whitney.”
Brown has made no secret of his intentions to file for divorce from Houston. He’s told family members he’s talked with attorneys in New Jersey. And during a recent outing at Foxwoods Casino to check out the all-girl band, SWV, the Roxbury rapper was asked by some ladies backstage, “What’s up with your wife?” Bobby, doing his best Bobby Brown, responded thusly: “We ain’t together no more. We’re gettin’ a divorce.”
Need any more confirmation???
The Roxbury rapper, as we told you before, is paid up on his back child support owed to Kim Ward of Stoughton, the mother of Laprincia, 16, and Bobby Jr., 14.
Ever since he scored his “Being Bobby Brown” reality series on Bravo last year, which he parlayed into other gigs like an upcoming national concert tour and plans for a “Sanford & Son”-like sitcom with his dad, Pop, Brown no longer has to rely on Houston’s hand-outs to take care of his kids.
And speaking of Whitney’s wallet, friends fear she’s going to run out of money with no work, an extravagant lifestyle and a pricey drug habit. Never mind those 4 a.m. raids on a local gas station’s candy counter dressed in her jammie pants and fur coat . . .
“Whitney’s had a lot of money over the years but the cash is drying up because she can’t stop spending,” a friend told the tabloid. “What money she does get goes straight to drugs.”
Brown’s mother, Carol, who allegedly is writing a book about her son, said she “can’t deny” her son plans to send Whitney packing.
“There’s a lot going on in their lives that no one knows about and it’s really very sad,” she told the Enquirer. “Bobby has been through a lot but he’s a wonderful person trying to do what’s best for him and his children. Unfortunately, sometimes the right decisions can be very painful.”
A Bravo spokesgal told us yesterday that the station has not renewed “Being Bobby Brown.” Which leads us to believe the suits don’t want to commit if wild ’n’ crazy Whitney isn’t around hammin’ it up for the laughs!
Sen. Ted Kennedy lands on the National Enquirer cover this week. (Courtesy photo)
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