Whereas Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been busy upending America’s well being care by forcing out prime scientists and overseeing the mass firing of 10,000 Division of Well being and Human Providers Division staff, the Trump cupboard secretary has discovered time to purchase his TV star spouse, Cheryl Hines, a flowery new home in Washington, DC,’s most storied neighborhood.
It seems that the elegant, $4.34 million townhouse in “ritzy” Georgetown fulfills two of Hines’ wants, in accordance with Kennedy biographer Jerry Oppenheimer, writing within the Day by day Mail.
Initially, Hines’ three-story colonial-style row house replicates the form of Georgetown residence that Jackie Kennedy loved within the Fifties, when her husband, John F. Kennedy — Kennedy’s uncle — served in Washington, D.C., as a U.S. senator from Massachusetts, Oppenheimer mentioned.
Oppenheimer mentioned his sources informed him that Hines’ reasoning for desirous to dwell in prosperous Georgetown was as a result of “she felt living there would give her the imprimatur of being a genuine Kennedy wife, like Jackie when she was married to Jack.”
It additionally occurs that Hines’ new home is only a flew blocks from the place John and Jackie Kennedy lived, earlier than he was elected president and so they occupied the White Home from 1961 to 1963.
However Hines new house fulfills one other large want: To maintain her near her notoriously philandering husband in Washington, D.C., in order that gained’t be tempted to embroil himself in one more dishonest scandal, in accordance with Oppenheimer.
After Kennedy was confirmed as President Trump’s new HHS secretary, Hines needed to cope with the concern that her husband, a scion of the Kennedy household, would succumb to his self-proclaimed “lust demons” if he was allowed to dwell on his personal, even part-time, in Washington, D.C.
As is well-known, Kennedy cheated on his first two wives, Emily Black and Mary Richardson. The latter, the mom of his 4 youthful kids, died by suicide in 2013, reportedly distraught over his serial infidelity and impending divorce.
Quick ahead to final fall, when Kennedy was caught up in a weird sexting scandal with glamorous New York journal political reporter, Olivia Nuzzi, who, at 31, was half his age.
The Nuzzi affair was “the last straw” for Hines, who seemingly “lost all trust in Bobby ever being monogamous” — although she, herself, started relationship him when he was nonetheless married to Richardson, in accordance with Oppenheimer.
Hines was “blindsided” when her husband’s alleged year-long sexting affair with Nuzzi turned the speak of Washington in late September and early October. Lurid stories in regards to the scandal included claims that Kennedy vowed to “impregnate” the journalist after assembly her when she interviewed him for a New York journal story. Because the Nuzzi scandal broke, Mediaite additionally reported that three extra ladies, who have been affiliated with Kennedy’s anti-vaccine group, claimed that they, too, had affairs with the previous environmental lawyer over the previous 12 months.
Furthermore, each Kennedy and Hines have needed to cope with an allegation, first reported in Self-importance Honest, that he sexually assaulting his kids’s babysitter in 1998. The alleged assault got here up in his contentious affirmation listening to to change into the top of Well being and Human Providers. Kennedy denied the allegation and claimed it had been “debunked.
In early October, previous to Trump’s election, Oppenheimer reported within the Day by day Mail that Hines had reached the bounds of her marriage to the “egomaniacal” and politically polarizing Kennedy and was contemplating a divorce. Regardless that Hines was conscious of her husband’s “checkered” sexual historical past, she firmly believed that he “finally had his sex demons under control” along with his political aspirations and as he reached his seventh decade, a buddy informed Oppenheimer.
Kennedy himself had referred to his “demons” in a “sex diary” he as soon as saved. The red-bound diary was present in Richardson’s house after her demise. Excerpts have been printed within the New York Put up in 2013, revealing that he had repeatedly cheated on his second spouse and preferred to element and price his sexual encounters with different a number of ladies.
However by mid-October, Hines publicly rejected the divorce rumors at a Hollywood occasion. On the time, Hines additionally was coping with the backlash over Kennedy’s choice to droop his personal presidential candidacy and endorse Trump.
Talking to reporters on the fiftieth anniversary get together for the Groundlings comedy theater troupe, she mentioned she was “feeling good” and counting on her love “connection” with Kennedy to assist them climate the varied controversies round them. “There’s, like, a connection that you look at your husband or your partner and all the crazy going on around you, or you look and you check in and it’s like, ‘OK. It’s going to be OK,’” Hines mentioned.
Now, Hines can cope with “the crazy” whereas residing it up as a political partner and potential Georgetown hostess, in accordance with Oppenheimer. She’ll be forsaking their $6.6 million, Mediterranean-style house within the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles — which survived the Palisades Hearth. That house boasts lush gardens, swimming pool and Tiki bar, the Day by day Mail reported final 12 months.
It’s not clear when Hines will formally transfer to Washington D.C. however her new Georgetown house boasts conventional class, with an “open-concept” formal front room, eating room and chef’s kitchen, in accordance with Oppenheimer. The previous Hollywood progressive might throw events there for her new associates in MAGA world.
Talking of which, Oppenheimer reported that Hines needs to develop a right-leaning TV speak present to compete with “The View” on ABC. She’s additionally hoping that her husband’s highly effective new cupboard place within the Trump administration will present her with “a Hollywood ending” — of types.
“It’s clear that Cheryl wants to keep the marriage alive, is hoping that she can regain her trust in Bobby,” an insider informed Oppenheimer. “But only time will tell.”
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