Alan Dershowitz is fed up with John F. Kennedy’s grandson’s rants against him.
The famed lawyer, who represented clients from Harvey Weinstein to Jeffrey Epstein and even Donald Trump, told the New York Post he plans to file a defamation suit against Jack Schlossberg, the late president’s lone grandchild, over his recent claim that Dershowitz had killed his late wife.
“I hope he will preserve all of his documents because I am about to commence a legal action against him,” Dershowitz told the Post on Wednesday. “My lawyers have advised me now that I have a viable defamation action.”
Schlossberg, 32, unleashed on the 86-year-old criminal defense attorney in a rant he posted to Instagram earlier this month.
“Alan Dershowitz if you can hear me I need your help, I’ve been trying to reach out to you,” Schlossberg said. “I’m in deep s--t, dude. I’m all over the Epstein documents, there’s all sorts of credible evidence...
“Everyone knows I killed my wife, I’ve got a thousand sexual assault cases against me, I look like a human penis. I’m completely irrelevant and I’ve never had consensual sex … Oh wait, s--t, that’s you.”
Dershowitz did not take well to Schlossberg’s claim he’d killed his spouse.
Dershowitz has been married to Carolyn Cohen, who is still alive, since 1986.
Cohen is Dershowitz’s second spouse. He was previously married to Sue Barlach for 17 years—a New Jersey native who drowned in the East River on New Year’s Eve in 1983 in what authorities said was an apparent suicide.
Little is known about Barlach beyond her divorce and custody proceedings with Dershowitz. Despite her alleging Dershowitz “negatively affected” her “health to the extent that she required medical treatment and briefly some psychiatric therapy,” the New Yorker reported Dershowitz—who denied those accusations—got full custody to both of their children in the end.
That was not the end of the two’s connection, however. Barlach’s sister, Marilyn, married Dershowitz’s younger brother, Nathan, and the couple remained together for decades until Marilyn was crushed to death in Manhattan by a U.S. Postal Service truck in 2011.
The New Yorker reported that Marilyn testified on Dershowitz’ behalf against her sister and said he “would do more to help the children adjust to the divorce.”
Schlossberg appears to not be bothered by Dershowitz’s legal threat. He reappeared on social media Tuesday after a short hiatus and appeared to mock the lawyer’s threats.
“(I’m legally obligated to inform you that Alan Dershowitz didn’t kill his wife who is alive — just kidding I’m not legally obligated to say that bc Alan Dershowitz Only threatened to sue me),” reads Schlossberg’s post to Instagram on Feb. 18. “DONT LET YOUR SPEECH GET CHILLED.”
Dershowitz says he counts Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), Schlossberg’s late great-uncle, as one of his many clients over the decades. He also claims to have been a law professor to Joseph Kennedy III at Harvard. He told the Post that Schlossberg has “done more harm for the Kennedy name than all the rest of the Kennedys combined.”
The attorney told the tabloid earlier this month that Schlossberg, who he alleges challenged him to a debate on a podcast but later pulled out of, is “a disturbed, spoiled brat.”
