RFK Jr. Divorcing DWI-Charged Wife

Alleged drunk driving came three days after filing

By Evann Gastaldo, Newser Staff

Posted Jul 14, 2010 8:11 AM CDT

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RFK Jr. Divorcing DWI-Charged Wife — In this May 15, 2010 police booking photo released by the Westchester County District Attorney's Office in White Plains, NY, Mary Richardson Kennedy is shown. (AP Photo/Westchester County District Attorney's Office, File)

(Newser) – Mary Kennedy’s May 15 DWI arrest didn’t come out of nowhere: Turns out her husband, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., had filed for divorce on May 12. Rumors of marriage trouble came bubbling to the surface soon after the DWI; police had been called to the couple’s New York home on May 13 for a domestic incident and found Mary “intoxicated,” the New York Daily News reports. She is due in court on the DWI charges July 22.
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