Jack Schlossberg, à New York, le 2 septembre 2024. GOTHAM/GC IMAGES/GETTY
A well-born heir
John Bouvier Kennedy Schlossberg, born in New York in 1993, comes from a famous family that is equivalent to a royal dynasty across the Atlantic. Jack Schlossberg – “Jack” being, in the United States, the nickname for the first name “John” – is the son of Edwin Schlossberg, artist and designer, and Caroline Kennedy, daughter of John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier. He is therefore, among other things, the grandson of a president, the son of an ambassador, the great-nephew, cousin and nephew of senators and cousin of several elected members of the House of Representatives. And even, for a time, the nephew by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, through his aunt Maria Shriver, herself a niece of JFK. He grew up in New York’s affluent Upper East Side and spent his vacations at the family home: his grandmother “Jackie’s” farm on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts.
Ready for anything on TikTok and Instagram
For the past few months, this graduate in history from Yale University and a Harvard law degree has been causing a sensation on social media. For his 413,000 followers on TikTok and 397,000 on Instagramhe posts humorous videos that prove both his Democratic convictions and his undeniable narcissism. He dances shirtless, poses with celebrities like actress Eva Longoria or describes his beauty ritual (talc to absorb sweat and tying a tie) before attending the Democratic convention at the end of August. Because if he declared, in July, that Joe Biden was his “hero”, he is now fully engaged in the Kamala Harris campaign. When he is not paddleboarding in New York Bay, he spends his time hammering home his opposition to Donald Trump. The newspapers are already calling him « nouveau “John John” », the nickname of his uncle, whom he closely resembles, who remained in people’s memories as the little boy saluting in front of the coffin of his father who was assassinated in 1963, then became a media darling before disappearing in a plane crash in 1999.
A feather in the pro-democrat press
