William Kennedy Smith

Quick Facts

Full Name	William Kennedy Smith
Occupation	Physician
Date Of Birth	Sep 4, 1960(1960-09-04)
Age	64
Birthplace	Boston
Country	United States
Birth City	Massachusetts
Horoscope	Virgo

William Kennedy Smith Biography

William Kennedy Smith is one of the most popular and richest Physician who was born on September 4, 1960 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. William Kennedy Smith (born September 4 1960) is an American doctor and part of the famous Kennedy family that founded an organization that focuses on landmines and rehabilitation of victims of landmines. He is known for being charged with rape in a nationally-publicized 1991 trial that ended with his acquittal.

Smith is the person who founded Physicians Against Land Mines, an organization based in Chicago that fights for the end of the use of land mines as well as aids those injured by land mines. Smith also created CIR, the Center for International Rehabilitation (CIR) in the year 1996. In the year 2001 Smith taught as an adjunct professor for Northwestern University Medical School and the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.

In 2004, a former employee of the Center for International Rehabilitation (CIR) alleged that Smith had sexually assaulted her in 1999, and brought a civil action against him. Smith denied her charges, calling them “outrageous” and saying that “family and personal history have made me unusually vulnerable to these kinds of charges”. Smith later resigned from the CIR. A spokesman for the organization later acknowledged that two separate federal sexual harassment claims against Smith, by former female employees of CIR, had been “settled amicably.” On January 5, 2005, the court dismissed the employee’s lawsuit.

As of 2011, Smith worked at MedRed, a Washington-based medical communications technology firm.

He was a boarding student in Salisbury School in Salisbury, Connecticut. He earned the degree of his bachelor at Duke University; completed premedical postbaccalaureate courses in Bryn Mawr College; and in 1991, he received his M.D. degree from the Georgetown University School of Medicine.

William Kennedy Smith Net Worth

William Kennedy Smith is one of the richest Physician from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, William Kennedy Smith 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

The incident started at the end on Good Friday, 29 March 1991. Smith was then just 30 years old. young, was at the bar (named Au Bar) in Palm Beach, Florida, along with his uncle senator Ted Kennedy, and his cousin Patrick J. Kennedy. The bar was where Smith was able to meet Patricia Bowman, a 29-year- old woman, and a young woman who was in the bar. According to an affidavit filed by police by the officers investigating the incident who questioned Bowman, Smith asked for an Uber ride to a house in the area that belonged to family members from the Kennedy family. Smith and Bowman later walked on the shore. Bowman confessed to the police that Smith then brutally raped her. Around 4:30 am, she phoned two acquaintances who took Bowman from the Kennedy compound and brought her to their home and later to her personal home, from where Bowman made a call to an alleged rape center. After a short time, she disclosed the incident to police and was admitted to an emergency room for an examination of a kit for rape which revealed sperm inside her vagina, severe bleeding and pain. The trial was a success, Smith said that he as well as Bowman had sex however it was mutually agreed upon. While three women, which included one law student as well as a doctoral student were willing to confirm that Smith had assaulted them sexually during the 1980s in instances which were not reported the police However, their testimony was disqualified because the behavior pattern described was not comparable enough in the details of the Bowman incident. Smith was cleared of all charges.

The year was 1991. Smith went on trial and was was acquitted of a charge of rape. The case was handled with Miami’s criminal defense lawyer Roy Black in a trial which attracted a lot of media attention.

Smith considered running for Congress in the 2002 elections in Illinois, but decided against it.

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Who is William Kennedy Smith Dating?

According to our records, William Kennedy Smith married to Anne Henry. As of December 1, 2023, William Kennedy Smith’s is not dating anyone.

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Facts & Trivia

William Ranked on the list of most popular Physician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. William Kennedy Smith celebrates birthday on September 4 of every year.

What became of William Kennedy Smith?

William Kennedy Smith became a doctor after the trial, specializing in working with victims of land mines, and remained largely out of the national spotlight. In 2004, a Chicago woman who was Smith’s assistant at the nonprofit Center for International Rehabilitation filed a lawsuit accusing him of sexual assault.

Who is Patricia Bowman?

Bowman is known and introduced around Palm Beach as Patricia O’Neil , her driver’s license lists her as Patricia Bowman. Records of the Florida Department of Highway Safety show that she received 17 tickets for speeding, careless driving or being involved in an accident between 1982 and 1990.

Where is William Kennedy Smith today?

William Kennedy Smith keeps his focus on improving D.C. and away from ’91 rape trial. The commissioner-elect was walking his new district in Northwest Washington , stopping across from the Watergate to inspect a crack in the sidewalk, crumbling concrete and a broken step.

Who Raped William Kennedy Smith?

Using records, statements and news footage, the documentary revisits the case of Jupiter resident Patricia Bowman , who accused Smith of rape on the night of March 30, 1991. Televised live across the country, the trial became a media circus and one of the most watched TV court dramas.

Where is Patricia Bowman now?

Ms. Bowman, who is known as Patty, and her 2-year-old daughter live in a Jupiter house O’Neil bought for her in 1989 for $161,800. The O’Neils also have a home in Jupiter, 20 minutes away from Ms. Bowman’s.