Kennedy Smith

William Kennedy Smith married girlfriend Anne Henry Saturday in a picturesque white chapel on Tilghman Island, then treated busloads of wedding guests to a reception and fireworks display at the $1.1 million waterfront farmhouse he bought in September. That's according to a real estate agent and inn keeper who, like many people on the 3-mile island, were aware of the goings-on. Smith, a nephew of President John F. Kennedy who was acquitted of rape and battery in 1991 by a Florida jury, did not respond to an e-mail message seeking comment.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Florida prosecutors charged William Kennedy Smith yesterday with raping a young woman at the Kennedy estate Easter weekend, setting the stage for a celebrity trial in a case that already has made headlines around the world.Also yesterday, State Attorney David H. Bludworth said his office would charge a national supermarket tabloid with unlawfully revealing the identity of the alleged rape victim.Palm Beach police said that an arrest warrant had been issued for the 30-year-old Mr. Smith, nephew of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass.

PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Lawyers for William Kennedy Smith disclosed yesterday that an eyewitness disputes a 29-year-old woman's allegation that Mr. Smith raped her at the Kennedy family estate here and can testify that "nothing untoward" occurred.Existence of the eyewitness, whose name was not revealed, came as the defense lawyers sought to pressure Palm Beach police from making public more than 1,300 pages of investigative files that the attorneys claim are incomplete.The files give "an unfair, one-sided" summary of the investigation, Mark P. Schnapp, Mr. Smith's Palm Beach lawyer, said in a letter yesterday to David H. Bludworth, Palm Beach County state attorney.

Washington -- So private and little-known was William Kennedy Smith until recently that captions under newspaper photos of him and a more famous cousin had been known to read, "John F. Kennedy Jr. and friend."All that changed, of course, early last month when a 29-year-old Florida woman claimed she was raped by Mr. Smith, 30, over Easter weekend at the Kennedy mansion in Palm Beach.And yesterday, Palm Beach police said they will recommend that a sexual assault charge be filed against Mr. Smith, a fourth-year medical student at Georgetown University and one of the 28 Kennedy cousins.

PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Patrick Kennedy called the woman in the Kennedy estate case a "Fatal Attraction" character and testified that his cousin, William Kennedy Smith, told him after the episode that he thought he was being "set up."Mr. Kennedy's account came from more than 1,000 pages of witness statements and reports that police released yesterday."In my view this was a person, like I said, sort of a 'Fatal Attraction' you couldn't get rid of and was saying all sorts of wild things and that is the way he had conveyed it to me," said Mr. Kennedy, 24, a Rhode Island legislator and son of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass.

The Florida woman who charges William Kennedy Smith raped her was to face his lawyers for the first time today when she begins three days of questioning under oath.But attorneys for the 30-year-old single mother have told the court their client would refuse to answer any questions about her sexual history. If the judge orders the woman to respond, her lawyers have said they plan an immediate appeal that could delay the trial, set to start Oct. 30."This is in no way intended as a threat or anything else," Douglas N. Duncan said to Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Mary E. Lupo in July.

NBC News and the New York Times are among the media outlets that have named the woman who told police she was raped by Sen. Edward Kennedy's nephew, William Kennedy Smith. The woman's lawyer and others criticized the action because the woman wanted to keep her identity confidential.The Evening Sun wants to know what you think. Should networks and newspapers publish the woman's name? Should they publish her picture?To register your opinion, call SUNDIAL, the Baltimore Sun's directory of telephone information services, at 783-1800 (or 268-7736 in Anne Arundel County)

On April 12, 2003, MARGARET KENNEDY SMITH, beloved wife of the late John Wesley Smith, devoted mother of Ward Wesley Smith and his wife Mary Rosewin Sweeney and Lynn Margaret Kozloski and her husband Paul H. Kozloski. Loving grandmother of Claire Sweeney Smith, Katherine Sweeney Smith, Brett Paul Kozloski and Margaret Kennedy Kozloski. Dear friend of Julia Malone of Washington, D.C. A Memorial Service will be held Sunday, April 27, 1 P.M. at the family owned Mitchell-Wiedefeld Funeral Home, Inc., 6500 York Rd. (at Overbrook)