Skakel Settles Slander Suit with TV Personality Nancy Grace

Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel, who’s awaiting retrial on a murder charge, has settled his slander suit against television personality Nancy Grace who broadcast a comment that Skakel left DNA evidence at the scene of the 1975 murder of his Greenwich neighbor Martha Moxley.

Lawyers for Skakel, Grace and her co-defendants, commentator Beth Karas Time Warner Inc., or Turner Broadcasting System Inc. wouldn’t disclose details of the settlement, that was filed Oct. 31 in New Haven federal court, according to WFSB. HLN, which broadcasts Grace’s show, aired a retraction on Oct. 30, according to the report.

Skakel filed the lawsuit in 2013 claiming he was slandered by untrue comments that DNA linked him to the1975 Halloween Eve murder of Moxley when they both were 15 years old.

Skakel, a nephew of Robert F. Kennedy’s widow, Ethel Kennedy, has maintained his innocence for the murder that went unsolved for decades until Skakel was convicted in 2002. He served 11 years of his sentence until a court overturned his conviction last year. Skakel is free on $1.2 million bond while he awaits the retrial.

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