Who is Kick Kennedy? Ben Affleck has always been her crush ever since they started spending time together
Ben Affleck is recently single — but is he already meeting people?
It’s been about a week since Jennifer Lopez filed for divorce, and the 52-year-old Hollywood heartthrob is reportedly “hanging out” with a new woman.
While J.Lo is asking a judge to restore her maiden name and not award Affleck spousal support, the “Argo” star has reportedly been spending time with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s 36-year-old daughter, Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy.
Over the weekend, sources told Page Six that the Oscar winner and the model were spotted in the same locations, including the Beverly Hills Hotel’s Polo Lounge.
“Kick and Ben have been spending time together, but I don’t know what’s going on,” an insider told People.
Other reports claim the two crossed paths, but there’s nothing romantic about it.
“I don’t think they even know each other. There’s definitely nothing going on,” a second source told People on Monday.
Insiders told TMZ that Affleck and Kick are friends, adding that she thinks highly of the actor and that there’s nothing going on between them.
Here’s everything we know about the woman Affleck is “spending time” with after his divorce.
Kick hails from a famous family:
Kick is the eldest daughter of former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. She was the second daughter born in 1988, after her brother Robert “Bobby” Kennedy III. She was the child of her famous father and his first wife, Emily Ruth Black, before they separated in 1994.
Kick was affectionately named after her great-aunt Kathleen “Kick” Agnes Kennedy, sister of the late President John F. Kennedy.
Kick has four other siblings besides Bobby: Conor Kennedy, Kyra Kennedy, Aidan Kennedy, and William “Finn” Kennedy, whom his father welcomed with his second wife, Mary Richardson, before their separation in 2010 and his suicide in 2012.
She’s always had a crush on Ben:
Multiple sources told People that “Kick’s celeb crush has always been Ben,” claiming they’ve been getting to know each other and “are in the same scenes.”
Another insider refuted the claims, saying Kick is a “partying” woman who “loves to have a good time,” but there’s nothing romantic going on between her and the “Batman” actor.
His name was linked to Paul Simon’s son:
Before she was linked to Affleck, Keech dated musician Harper Simon, 51, the son of Paul Simon and Peggy Harper. They were so serious that he even introduced her to his grandmother, the late Ethel Kennedy.
“Harper came to the Cape,” she shared with The Post in 2014. “He’s a very charming person, and he sang for my grandmother, which she loved — and then after that he was ordered to sing every night, which he didn’t like. My grandmother loves performing and music, and she demands it sometimes. And you can’t really say no to Ethel, so I made sure he brought his guitar.”
She went to Stanford University:
What? Like is it hard? Kick went to Stanford University, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in history and studied theater.
Kicks has appeared in “Gossip Girl” and “The Newsroom”:
Kicks has starred in a number of popular classic shows, including small roles in “Gossip Girl” and “The Newsroom” before landing a role in “Curb Your Enthusiasm” alongside her father’s then-girlfriend, actress Cheryl Hines, who later became her stepmother.
She shared her love of the art, telling Town & Country in 2012, “I was born with a sticker — a name — which has made me completely disinterested in the fame factor of success.
“I see all my actor friends doing things like that because it’s a great part of the job, but it frustrates me a bit. I’m scared of it, or at least I’m not interested in it, or I don’t enjoy it.”
His half-brother dated Taylor Swift:
Kicks has had a fling with Taylor Swift. In fact, half-brother Conor Kennedy, 30, dated the “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart” singer, 34, briefly in 2012.
“Yeah, she’s really sweet,” he told The Post in 2014, adding that Swift had visited his family at home.
“It was a real moment,” Kirk added. “But we always have exciting things happening — meeting exciting people.”
Kik’s billionaire boyfriend died while they were dating:
Kik was reportedly dating banking heir Matthew Mellon for four months before her death in 2018. Mellon died while traveling to a drug rehabilitation facility in Cancun, Mexico.
“She is very sad and shocked, she did not think this would happen,” her modeling manager, Christine Schott, told People at the time. “She is very upset and will not comment on this matter.”
He said his father had cut off the head of a whale with a chainsaw:
During her 2012 interview with Town & Country, Kick claimed that her famous father had decapitated a whale that washed ashore during a family vacation near Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. She alleged that RFK Jr. severed the head with a chainsaw and tied the whale’s head to the family minivan.
“Every time we drove fast on the highway, whale juice would drip down the car windows, and it was the most disgusting thing on earth,” he told the magazine.
“We all had plastic bags on our heads with holes cut in our mouths, and people on the highway were giving us the finger, but for us it was just normal everyday stuff.”