The Heinz-Kerry Water Ballet (Tales of the "Botoxed Brahmin" and his bride)

Boston Herald ^ | 02.05.04 | Jim Geraghty

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Very interesting!

[xJones]

Botox? Are undertakers using that now?

[Freebird Forever]

Is this the first marriage for Kerry?

[nwrep]

Second marriage to an heiress.

[solzhenitsyn]

Marie Antoinette. Evita Peron. Imelda Marcos. Leona Helmsley. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Theresa Heinz Kerry.

[EggsAckley]

Teresa is environmentally friendly??

With a lawn that huge the amount of pollution created by the weekly mowing is as much as a small city.

[beckett]

Botoxed Brahmin! Great moniker. Only problem is Bush is a Conecticut Yankee with a pedigree even more impressive than the typical Boston Brahmin. But still, it's good.

[Malesherbes]

Limousine liberalism at its best (worst).

Kerry is from a Brahmin family without money. He fixed that by marrying two heiresses in a row, getting the first marriage annulled despite the fact that it produced two daughters (which technically might be viewed as making them illegitimate.) "Just a Giggolo," says Ann Coulter.

[Ole Okie]

Is this the first marriage for Kerry?

Well, I suppose that's a matter for debate. He intially married heiress Julia Thorne, who bore him two children. She only had $300 mil. So Kerry looked around and found heiress Teresa Heinz, who had $550 mil.

Kerry ain't no fool; he quickly deduced that 550 is greater than 300, and so made his move.

But Teresa insisted that he have his first marriage annulled by the Catholic church.

So, depending on the Vatican disposition of that appeal, a decision to which I'm not privy, he either was/wasn't married before he married Heinz 57.

Gee whiz, my head is spinning.

[kcvl]

Democratic presidential front-runner John Kerry, who, according to published accounts going back more than a decade, began extricating himself from his first marriage to Philadelphia heiress Julia Thorne at the same time she was battling a case of depression so debilitating that it drove her to the brink of suicide.

In an attempt to explain why he decided not to let his wife's precarious mental state derail his 1982 bid to become Michael Dukakis' lieutenant governor, Kerry told the New Yorker magazine last December, "When I get focused and set out to do something, I'm pretty good at staying focused."

"You don't want to let yourself down, you know what I'm saying?" added the ambitious Democrat without a hint of irony.

Thorne, whose family is reportedly worth $300 million, married Kerry in 1970. According the New Yorker's Joe Klein, the couple's friends said Julia was not a typical political wife.

"There were times at dinner parties when John would be very pompous, unable to control his impulse to make a speech," one acquaintance told the writer. "It was all slightly laughable, and Julia was one of those who laughed. She'd say things like, 'What the f--k did you just say?'"

Kerry's career focus was so intense that Thorne apparently felt she was an impediment to her husband's ambitions. In her 1994 book about that period in her life, titled "You Are Not Alone," she wrote:

"I could no longer pretend I was of use to my husband or my children. ... I knew that, once I was gone, my family and friends would be relieved of the burden of my incompetency."

By Thorne's own account, she began to contemplate suicide a full two years before Kerry ratcheted up his 1982 campaign. Reviewing her book shortly after it was published, the Boston Globe reported: "One night in 1980, Julia Thorne put her children to bed and then sat on the edge of her own bed to contemplate suicide. She was exhausted - overwhelmed by despair, self-loathing and pain. She wanted to lie down. Curl up. Sleep forever."

The Kerrys were separated in 1982 but didn't divorce until 1988.

Press summaries of the New Yorker report focused on other details of Kerry's life story, such as his Vietnam heroism. Most omitted any mention of Kerry's first wife altogether, a fact that likely pleased the Massachusetts Democrat. "Kerry is understandably loath to talk about the details of the marriage," noted Klein.


During the period the Kerrys were separated, for instance, the senator apparently felt little constrained by his marital vows. Gossip columns at the time linked him to Morgan Fairchild, Cornelia Guest and even President Reagan's liberal daughter, Patti Davis. An upcoming Boston Globe expose will reportedly feature details of the Massachusetts Democrat's 1980s affair with a 25-year-old British reporter.

According to a previous account offered by the paper, the fact that Kerry was still technically married till 1988 "reportedly came as a surprise to some of his frequent companions."

Just weeks before his May 26, 1995, remarriage to Ketchup heiress Theresa Heinz, Thorne took Kerry to court in a bid for an increase in child support payments, arguing that "his income was up substantially," according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer


friction arose again two years later when Kerry, a Catholic, applied to the Washington, D.C., archdiocese to have his marriage to Thorne annulled, even though the couple had two grown daughters.

Thorne "has written a letter of opposition to the archdiocese because she feels the process demeans their relationship and their children," reported the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 1997.

The paper blamed Kerry's new wife on the annulment bid. His office issued a terse statement: "Sen. Kerry very much understands Julia's feelings and appreciates her support. Sen. Kerry believes that this is a private family matter."

The Washington Times noted in a Kerry profile several years ago that his critics consider him "a ruthless political opportunist." Given some of the more obscure details of Kerry's first marriage, that assessment may not be too far off the mark.

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[jaz.357]

[mlmr]

This should be posted as a thread of its own. On sunday or monday morning to catch the news hounds looking for a story.

[gg188]

Heinz request was to collect ten cubic feet per second. The U.S. Geological Survey defines cubic foot per second (cfs) as "the flow rate or discharge equal to one cubic foot of water per second or about 7.5 gallons per second."

They wanted 75 gallons per SECOND, the way I read this. Heinz wanted a few million gallons of water a month?

[okie01]

"Heinz wanted a few million gallons of water a month?"

Well, yes. She had a lawn, y'know. She really, really needed it.

And what use of the water did "the little people" have?

[newzhawk]

The arrogance of Kerry is no different than Gore or Clinton(s)- somehow it is not treated the same as if they were a Republican. so many times the other two characters had wedding partys removed from hotels at the last second so the Gore group could take over- mow down the rain forest of Costa Rica and put in an asphalt drive to make it easier to have an Eco press moment- it all seems to repeat itself - if we bring it up- it is sourgrapes

[backhoe]

Cross-linking:

-John Kerry- some selected, informative links...--

[Hon]

A timely bump, since Kerry is in Ketchum. (Or Ketchup.)

[Freee-dame]

Only problem is Bush is a Conecticut Yankee with a pedigree even more impressive than the typical Boston Brahmin. But still, it's good.

President Bush was born in Conn. because his father was in graduate school. I think they lived in graduate student housing, not usually a 5 million dollar mansion. W attended the local public elementary school in Midland, Texas. Did Kerry ever attend public school? W's family had money, but he had a regular childhood.

[beckett]

You really need to study the Bush family tree. John Kerry's pedigree has nothing on the Bushes.

By the way, George W. Bush went to Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., the most exclusive prep school in the United States.