Robert F. Kennedy Jr. isn’t ready to address a shocking claim that he cut off a dead raccoon’s penis years ago.
“Secretary, what did you do with the raccoon’s dead penis?” TMZ asked Kennedy, 72, on Thursday, April 16. “Where is it now?”
The United States Secretary of Health and Human Services simply laughed out loud before walking away from the reporter.
The moment, which was caught on tape, occurred when Kennedy was attending a House Ways and Means committee hearing on health policy.
Earlier this week, Kennedy made headlines when a new biography titled RFK Jr: The Fall and Rise was released.
In the book, author Isabel Vincent cited an alleged journal entry where Kennedy writes about stopping his car on a New York highway on November 11, 2001.
“I was standing in front of my parked car on I-684 cutting the penis out of a road killed raccoon, thinking about how weird some of my family members have turned out to be,” Kennedy wrote. “My kids waited patiently in the car.”
In a separate interview with People, Vincent claimed that Kennedy took the raccoon’s genitals so he could “study them later.”
“You have to understand, Bobby wanted to be a veterinarian as a kid,” she added. “His after-school job was at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., so he’s got a great love and interest in animals and a freezer full of roadkill, I’m sure, where he studies it.”
This isn’t the first time Kennedy has made news for his unique connection to animals.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s cousin Caroline Kennedy once claimed her family member “enjoyed showing off how he put baby chickens and mice in a blender to feed to his hawks.”
She added, “It was often a perverse scene of despair and violence.”
Kick Kennedy also once accused her father of beheading a dead whale before bungee-cording it to the roof of the family minivan for a five-hour drive.
“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 & Country in December 2012. “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.”
RFK Jr. later denied doing anything criminal and addressed any rumors to the contrary as “gossipy nonsense.”
