Kennedy Jr had multiple restraining orders against his ex wife - yet steals her body from her family

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The body of Robert Kennedy Jr's wife was the subject of a bitter legal battle yesterday as her family tried to prevent the Kennedys from burying her at a family plot in a service set to take place today.

After a judge ruled in favour of her husband, Mary Kennedy's body was released just hours before her wake at the family home in Bedford, New York where she was discovered hanged on Wednesday following her tragic suicide.

They are reportedly unhappy with Mr Kennedy's decision to bury his estranged wife near the Kennedy compound in Hyannisport, Massachusetts, so sued to stop her body being turned over to the funeral home which he had commissioned to handle the ceremony.

Mr Kennedy declined to speak about the matter after emerging from a closed court session in White Plains on Friday afternoon, saying only, 'It's all done.'

Friends and other documents revealed she was drowning in credit card debt, feared she would lose both her home and her children and was getting destroyed by her husband in the divorce court.

Speaking from the estate he shared with his wife for 16 years yesterday, Kennedy Jr told the New York Times: 'A lot of times I don’t know how she made it through the day. She was in a lot of agony for a lot of her life.'

Despite this, the 58-year-old continued to file multiple restraining orders against Mary, 52, and tried to get full custody of the children by claiming she was an unfit mother, according to sources - all while he publicly replaced her with his actress girlfriend, Cheryl Hines.