Obtained by Vanity Fair
An unsettling, newly-unearthed photo shows Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posing with what appears to be the barbecued carcass of a dog — suggesting the Independent presidential candidate once ate man’s best friend.
Kennedy, 70, texted the upsetting photo of himself and an unidentified woman posing with the charred animal to a friend last year, according to a Vanity Fair report.
The Kennedy family scion is seen clutching the barbequed remains on a big metal spit and pretending to take a big bite out of the ribs.
The carcass has 13 pairs of ribs – including a tell-tale “floating rib” that suggests it is in fact a canine, a veterinarian told the magazine.
Kennedy shared the snap with a friend who was traveling to Asia and suggested that the friend would enjoy a restaurant in Korea that had dog on the menu — further suggesting the 2024 candidate once ate dog.
The recipient, however, thought the image was insensitive for how it made light of animal cruelty, the magazine added.
The friend also expressed concern that it appeared to mock Korean culture and put the reputations of Kennedy and his famous family on the line.
The photo’s metadata dates it to 2010 – the same year Kennedy was diagnosed with a dead tapeworm in his brain.
During his 2012 divorce proceedings, the 70-year-old claimed he may have contracted the parasite during a trip to South Asia.
Kennedy’s family, however, generally believed that his cognitive issues stemmed from his 14 years as a heroin user, Vanity Fair reported.
Kennedy’s heroin addiction reportedly started when he was 15 – one year after his father, Robert F. Kennedy, was assassinated – and continued through his 20s, when he started his legal career at the Manhattan DA’s office.
The bombshell report also alleged that during his marriage to the late Mary Richardson, Kennedy was known for sending his friends photos of naked women.
The friends reportedly assumed that Kennedy had taken the photos but did not know whether the subjects had consented to being photographed — or to having the images shared.
When one unnamed friend lost his phone, Kennedy allegedly panicked that someone would find the photos, the magazine reported.
Meanwhile, another woman alleged that the insurgent presidential candidate was “totally inappropriate” when she, then 23, worked as a babysitter for his family in 1998.
The woman, Eliza Cooney, claimed that she felt Kennedy’s hand moving up and down her leg during a meeting one evening.
A few weeks later, the then-45-year-old father and husband allegedly came into her room and asked her to rub lotion on his back.
Cooney also claimed that Kennedy came up behind her and groped her in the kitchen pantry, leaving her “frozen” and “shocked” as he supposedly grabbed her hips and slid his hands up to her breasts.
The sexual assault was only interrupted when another worker came into the kitchen, Cooney told Vanity Fair.
The Kennedy campaign did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment on the allegations.