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Smith met Bowman at a local bar during an Easter weekend visit with his senator uncle Ted and cousin. Patrick Kennedy. Smith invited Bowman to return to the estate, with its 11-bedroom home, pool, tennis court and 200 feet of waterfront property. While he was there, Bowman reclaimed that Smith chased her across the field, tackled her, pinned her down, pulled up her dress, and raped her. Bowman passed two polygraph tests following his statements to police and had bruises on his legs, shoulders and arms.

Dominick Dunne covered the trial for this magazine, reporting how the Kennedy family came out en masse to support Smith: “They gave an unprecedented show of solidarity combined with stardom, waving at the press, smiling at photographers, any of them capable of any time to stand in front of the bank of microphones and address the crowds,” Dunne wrote.

Smith was eventually acquitted, which is no surprise given his expensive defense attorney. black roy, her family influence, and this detail from Dunne: “From the moment on the first day of the trial when Judge Mary Lupo dismissed, without comment, the testimony of three other women: a doctor, a medical student, and a law student who At the time she was the girlfriend of Smith's cousin, Matthew Maxwell Kennedy, who claimed that Smith sexually assaulted them between 1983 and 1988, the die was cast. The only thing that was surprising was the speed with which the six-person jury selected to decide Smith's fate reached its decision: just seventy-seven minutes, including the time it took to choose a foreman.” (At that time, Smith, through Black, denied the accusations of the three women.)

(In a strange postscript, Black married one of the jurors who found Smith not guilty, Read Black, in 1994. Black later became a member of The Real Housewives of Miami.)

Bowman later told Dunne: “It is absolution that money can buy. [Smith’s team] He had nine months to come up with his story…. It had five of my statements and everyone else's. She had the forensic evidence. He had all kinds of resources, which they already testified that they used. I had all this material to make up a story. And that's what he did… Anything he couldn't remember, due to rape trauma syndrome, he could find something to fix. Anything that fit the forensic evidence, he found an answer.”

In 2015, Jerry Oppenheimer wrote in his book RFK Jr.: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the dark side of sleep that JFK Jr. had been blackmailed into attending the trial to support his cousin. James Ridgway of Szigethy, an acquaintance of JFK Jr., told Congress that he remembered his friend saying that the family “'should have done something with Willie years ago when he started doing this,' meaning…rape women.” De Szigethy said that JFK Jr. “told me that he didn't want [support his cousin at trial] and his mother didn't want him to do it either. I suggested that she not do it since Willie was guilty, but she told me who was pushing and why.” Oppenheimer continued De Szigethy's statement to Congress: