Weeks after Caroline Kennedy's daughter, Tatiana Schlossberg, died after a brief cancer battle, her cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is giving insight into the family members' estranged relationship. "Everybody's praying for them," the U.S. secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) told People of his family while attending the Starry Night Gala in Palm Desert, California, on Saturday, January 31. When asked if he has spoken to his cousin in the wake of her daughter's death, RFK Jr. told the outlet, "Not recently." Schlossberg died on December 30, 2025, following a terminal cancer diagnosis.