Mary Jo’s parents utterly betrayed her. They were Kennedy lickspittles and aided that rotten family in covering up for Teddie boy’s drunk driving/homicide. Their own daughter.
She probably lived for nearly an hour in the air bubble in the back of that car while that drunken Ted wandered around covering his @$$. And Her parents helped him and his execrable dad Joe Sr.
And got paid off. Nice Florida condo, plenty of cash. Another case of let the dead bury the dead, life is for the living. Mary Jo we hardly knew you.
Joe Senior lived 123 days, exactly four months, longer than Mary Jo Kopechne.
I wonder if they pressured her parents from two sides. Meaning did they offer them a lot of money and threaten them with bad things that would come out about Mary Jo — or even about them, her parents — if they declined to take the money.
And in this case, £7.5 million is much less than I expected; I would have thought she would have demanded something like ten times that amount to make it go away.
Perhaps the Prince got off that cheaply because he threatened her with things he could reveal about her if she didn't take the dough ray me.