Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a star magnate who has hobnobbed with everybody from Invoice Clinton to Hollywood stars Larry David and Tom Hanks through the years. However he additionally had robust opinions about them that he confessed in his secret intercourse diaries, considered by The Submit.
Tom Hanks
In February 2000, Kennedy writes about reluctantly going to an occasion with the “Forrest Gump” star.
“I thought the guy was a chronic complainer when he seemed to have the best luck on Earth,” he writes.
Paula Zahn
A month earlier, Kennedy disparaged newscaster Paula Zahn, who interviewed him in January of that 12 months.
“TV with Paula Zahn who has always been sweet to me, but turns out to be a right wing zealot or an innocent who has swallowed all the tripe that the GOP propaganda machine produces daily,” he writes on January 10.
Republican president-elect Donald Trump nominated Kennedy, a former environmental lawyer, to be the following federal well being secretary earlier this month.
The Submit has reached out to Kennedy’s consultant for remark.
Rob Reiner, Bruce Willis and Michelle Pfeiffer
On a 1999 journey to Los Angeles, Kennedy had lunch with Rob Reiner and met actors Michelle Pfeiffer and Bruce Willis on the set of the movie “The Story of Us” at Culver Studios.
“I was struck by how slim and strong Willis was — almost slight,” he writes on Feb. 24. “He looks buff and tough in the movies.” Reiner advised him that he by no means discusses politics with Willis “who is a libertarian of sorts and was Republican,” Kennedy writes.
Larry David and associates
Throughout his LA go to, Kennedy had a “great dinner” at Larry and then-wife Laurie David’s home, together with Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Billy Crystal. “I talked Daniel Stern — from ‘Home Alone’ — into being my tent mate next week [at an environmental event] in Baja.”
He completed up the journey by writing, “I stayed out of trouble which always dogs me in LA.”
Invoice Clinton
Though he admits to having as soon as been a fan of Invoice Clinton, RFK Jr. was “disgusted” by the previous president’s determination to pardon financier Marc Wealthy in 2001. Wealthy fled to Switzerland after he was indicted on federal wire fraud and racketeering prices.
“He has sold out all who believed in him for trinkets and whatever else he got for those pardons,” writes Kennedy of “highly flawed” Clinton on Jan. 29. “I think of all the good deeds he didn’t do — like Vieques.”
Kennedy chronicles his makes an attempt to talk to high-ranking members of the Clinton administration over the continued bombing of Vieques, a nature protect off the coast of Puerto Rico.
“I got a returned phone call from Donald Rumsfeld,” he writes on Jan. 16, 2001, referring to the previous secretary of protection. “Hillary [Clinton] told me to call him. He was very jolly and told me a lot about his mother and how much he loves her.”
Alec Baldwin
Two days later, Kennedy writes that actor Alec Baldwin referred to as “to talk about his divorce from Kim Basinger. He is very worried about their child.”
Baldwin as soon as notoriously referred to his daughter, Eire, as “a rude, thoughtless little pig” in a leaked telephone message when she was 11 years previous.
Benicio del Toro
In July 2001, Kennedy, together with civil rights activist Al Sharpton and others, was sentenced to 30 days in jail in Puerto Rico for his position in a Vieques protest.
Throughout his time in jail, he continued to maintain a diary on yellow authorized pads, which The Submit has seen. On July 12, he wrote about how he was truly having fun with his time behind bars.
“I really needed a break and this place is perfect,” he writes, including that he was within the midst of studying Alan Schom’s 1997 biography of Napoleon Bonaparte, calling it “some of the pessimistic books I’ve ever learn.
“Schom damns him with his own words, and he is worse than Hitler,” Kennedy writes. “Hitler at least had a purpose outside himself. Napoleon was too involved in himself.”
Every week later, Kennedy acquired a go to from Puerto Rican actor Benicio del Toro, who had just lately starred in “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” an adaptation of journalist Hunter S. Thompson’s e book. Kennedy writes that they spoke about Thompson, actor Leonardo DiCaprio, Vieques and “Dana the conman” — an obvious reference to Hollywood cash supervisor Dana Giacchetto who was arrested in 2000 for defrauding shoppers of practically $10 million. (Giacchetto, who died in 2016, was good associates with DiCaprio.)
“Benicio del Toro also came … to visit me,” he writes. “He came with his father, who is a well known criminal lawyer and friend of [Judge Hector] Lafitte’s.”
Lafitte had sentenced Kennedy and different protestors, together with Dennis Rivera, the top of the highly effective 1199/SEIU Well being and Human Companies Union, to their jail phrases.
Kennedy household
Kennedy’s circle of relatives doesn’t escape his barbs.
Throughout a visit to Chicago in March 2001, the place he visited his youthful brother Christopher, Kennedy is important of Edwin Schlossberg, who’s married to his cousin Caroline Kennedy.
“He considers himself a financial genius,” Kennedy writes of Schlossberg, an artist, who he accuses of rewriting his aunt Jackie Kennedy Onassis’s will — calling it “a textbook example of how not to handle an estate. Not a penny was sheltered.”
He goes on to put in writing that “John of course was indifferent to the whole thing,” seemingly referring to his cousin and Jackie’s son, John F. Kennedy Jr.
Kennedy admitted to being a slave to “wild impulses” and “powerful demons” in the case of intercourse, in line with revelations from three volumes of secret diaries seen by The Submit. The diaries got here to gentle in 2013, a 12 months after the suicide of his second spouse Mary Richardson Kennedy.
The thick, pink journals had been discovered of their residence by Mary, who was distraught over their impending divorce and his serial philandering.
Though they chronicle Kennedy’s day by day life along with his youngsters and marriage to Mary in addition to his world journey on behalf of environmental teams, in addition they document the names of girls — with numbers from 1 to 10 subsequent to every entry.
The codes corresponded to sexual acts, with 10 which means intercourse, Mary advised a confidant.
