Jenkins-Hernandez filed a motion Monday morning in Bristol County Superior Court seeking the release of the letters as she wanted them prior to the 1 p.m. funeral.
A judge on Friday ordered key evidence preserved, granting a request from Jenkins-Hernandez so the family can investigate the circumstances of his death.
Hernandez was found dead last week in his cell at the Souza-Baranowski Corrections Center in Shirley, Massachusetts.
Hernandez's family is planning a private funeral for the former National Football League star in his hometown in Bristol, Conn.
"Rumors of letters to a gay lover, in or out of prison, are false", said lawyer Jose Baez, who this year successfully defended Hernandez in a trial where he was accused of murdering two men in Boston in 2012.
"My client is obviously saddened by the loss of his friend, Aaron Hernandez", Larry Army, Jr., Kennedy's attorney, said in a statement released on Monday.
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Hernandez had been serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole for the murder of Odin Lloyd.
Now living in Ohio, Washington was woken up at 6 a.m. this past Wednesday by his phone "buzzing non-stop" with the news of Hernandez's death. Judge Thomas McGuire granted the request shortly after noon, allowing the district attorney to redact information in the notes to protect the investigation into Hernandez's death.
Aaron Hernandez sits in the courtroom of the Attleboro District Court during his hearing on August 22, 2013 in North Attleboro, Massachusetts.
Attorney Jose Baez, who won an acquittal for the former National Football League star from charges of a double homicide on April 14, told TMZ that Hernandez's secret bisexual life is only a rumor and that "these are malicious leaks used to tarnish somebody who is dead". Law enforcement officials last week confirmed that Hernandez left behind three handwritten letters. "They love him, and they miss him".
Sullivan issued a statement from the family outside the funeral home, in which he thanked the public for respecting the family's privacy.
Army declined to describe Kennedy's relationship to Hernandez but said through a spokesman that Kennedy was not his cellmate and had been placed on suicide watch at the maximum-security prison in MA as a precaution. He refused to take questions about the contents of the letters. The cause of death was ruled a suicide (asphyxia by hanging).
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