Jack Schlossberg, the only grandson of President John F. Kennedy, has vanished from his usual haunts around his Chelsea apartment building in New York, with sources telling the Daily Mail that his family stepped in to prevent a possible spiral following his crushing defeat in a congressional primary this past June.
"People haven't seen him," one source inside the building said. "At one point, food was being delivered and sat outside overnight. That was when people really started wondering where Jack had gone."
Schlossberg, 33, ran for New York's 12th congressional district, a seat covering large parts of Manhattan's Upper East Side, Upper West Side and Midtown. He finished a distant third in the Democratic primary with 10.8 percent of the vote, failing to win over voters even in his own Chelsea neighborhood, according to sources.
"Jack was 100 percent sure he was going to win," one insider said. "The election loss really hurt. He wasn't prepared for this result." The source added: "His building is an entire city block and he couldn't even win there. Imagine believing you're about to be elected to Congress and then discovering you couldn't carry your own immediate neighborhood. That was devastating."
Family Rallies After the Defeat
Schlossberg's mother, Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of the late president and a former U.S. ambassador to Australia and Japan, was said to have moved quickly once the results came in.
"The family swooped in after the loss and whisked him away," one source claimed. "They knew how badly he was hurting. The last thing they wanted was Jack sitting alone in that apartment staring at election results."
Denial He Was "Holed Up"
A source close to Schlossberg pushed back on the idea he had gone into hiding, telling the Daily Mail he spent part of the summer with family on Martha's Vineyard but has returned to the city repeatedly.
"While he did spend time in Martha's Vineyard with his family, he's also been back multiple times to the city and had multiple meetings, including next steps and ideas he has for the party ahead of the midterms," the source said. "He's even got a meeting scheduled with one of the folks he ran against in the 12th primary. He really wasn't whisked [away]."
The source said Schlossberg is weighing several options, including television opportunities with Netflix and Prime Time. "Schlossberg has a lot of options and he's trying to nail down what to do," the source added. "The future is bright."
Cooking Videos Replace the Campaign Trail
Schlossberg posted a cryptic photo on social media last Tuesday showing him sitting in front of a camera, captioned: "What am I cooking this time?!" He has since shared cooking posts and photos of himself volunteering, with only occasional political commentary mixed in, a sharp shift from a campaign in which he flooded Instagram with videos of himself courting New Yorkers.
Reports of an AOC Set-Up
Schlossberg has largely avoided headlines since his defeat, apart from reports last week that friends were trying to set him up with Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is newly single. Asked about the reports by the New York Post, Schlossberg said: "I respect her a lot - she can do way better than me!"
A Campaign Dogged by Controversy
Schlossberg's run was hampered by reports of high turnover among campaign staff and internal dissatisfaction with the candidate, along with criticism that he was a pampered political heir with little real-world experience to justify a seat in Congress.
Before entering politics, Schlossberg was best known for online trolling, including a clip questioning whether Second Lady Usha Vance was "hotter" than his own grandmother, Jacqueline Kennedy, and another suggesting that Vice President JD Vance had killed Pope Francis, who died a day after meeting with him. He also called his cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a "Russian asset" and, in a separate online rant, accused Alan Dershowitz, the lawyer and friend of the late Senator Ted Kennedy, of killing his wife and being tied to Jeffrey Epstein.
Dershowitz Responds
Dershowitz told the Daily Mail after Schlossberg's defeat: "Schlossberg was a joke from the beginning. The only surprising thing about this election is he got ten percent of voters. Why would anybody possibly vote for him, other than to get to touch a Kennedy. He has no qualifications, never held any office, and if his name were John Smith, he wouldn't get a single vote. It's such an insult to the intellect of voters to have a candidate like this even run. I wouldn't vote for him for dog catcher."
He added: "I love the Kennedys, I have very high regard for the Kennedys. This doesn't help their reputation, but the Kennedys can't be blamed for him. The Kennedys are a great family, and they deserve to be respected, and one black sheep shouldn't hurt the reputation of the family."
The Daily Mail has reached out to Schlossberg for comment.
