Jerry Oppenheimer is the writer of two biographies of the Kennedys: The Different Mrs. Kennedy, Ethel Skakel Kennedy: An American Drama of Energy, Privilege, and Politics, and RFK JR. and The Darkish Facet of the Dream.
Shut mates of Curb Your Enthusiasm actress Cheryl Hines expect her to file for divorce from RFK Jr. within the wake of his weird sexting relationship with a lot youthful journalist Olivia Nuzzi, DailyMail.com has discovered.
In an unique interview, a Hines confidante stated the tv star, 59, was ‘blindsided’ by the scandal and had believed her husband’s philandering was a factor of the previous.
‘Cheryl discovered ten years of marriage with Bobby to be ‘spicier and loads of laughs’,’ the supply, a longtime buddy, informed DailyMail.com.
‘She adored being a member of America’s royal household, and having the well-known Kennedy identify hooked up to hers, however now she’s totally embarrassed and livid about his adulterous actions and so they imagine she needs out.’
Cheryl Hines is ‘totally embarrassed and livid’ over husband RFK Jr.’s ‘adulterous actions’, insiders inform DailyMail.com
Mates of the actress say Hines was ‘blindsided’ by her husband’s sexting scandal with journalist Olivia Nuzzi (pictured)
The insider added: ‘Cheryl was at all times very conscious that Bobby had a protracted historical past of womanizing. She herself had develop into very publicly concerned with him when he was nonetheless married to his second spouse, so his taking part in round wasn’t something new to her.
‘Nonetheless, she firmly believed Bobby, in his seventh decade and with political aspirations, lastly had his intercourse demons underneath management, and appeared settled down of their seemingly bucolic southern California home life.
‘However she now feels completely blindsided and humiliated. His affair with that lady, Olivia Nuzzi, has wreaked-havoc on their marriage.
‘If Cheryl has her approach, Bobby be a 3 could possibly be a three-time loser in marriage. She’s contemplating divorce as a result of Bobby’s out-of-the-blue sexting affair with a lady 4 a long time his junior has positively curbed her enthusiasm about their tumultuous union.’
Late final month, Nuzzi, 31, the Washington, D.C. star political correspondent for New York journal, acknowledged having a sexting relationship with Kennedy, 70, whereas masking his marketing campaign.
Kennedy, who suspended his unbiased bid for president and threw his assist behind Donald Trump in August, claimed the 2 had solely met as soon as when Nuzzi interviewed him for the journal.
Mates informed Web page Six that Nuzzi disclosed they’d loved steamy FaceTime periods, and the journalist was impressed by 70-year-old RFK Jr.’s ‘sexual stamina’.
Nuzzi has since stepped down from her job.
Hines would spark divorce rumors days later when she was snapped with out her giant diamond ring whereas leaving a Gucci-hosted afterparty throughout Milan Trend Week on September 20.
Images confirmed the actress was solely sporting her wedding ceremony band and had ditched the second greater ring that she had been pictured sporting a pair days earlier on the Emmy Awards.
Hines sparked divorce rumors days after information of the scandal broke when she was snapped with out her giant diamond ring in Milan (pictured) and was solely sporting her band
Images confirmed Hines ditched the bigger diamond ring that she had been pictured sporting a pair days earlier on the Emmy Awards
She was not too long ago seen once more at a Paris Trend Week occasion the place she intentionally flashed the marriage band on her finger to photographers.
In the meantime, a detailed RFK Jr. ally says he was shocked when the story concerning the Kennedy-Olivia Nuzzi relationship turned public earlier this month as a result of Bobby was at all times boasting that he’d way back quelled his addictions – drug and intercourse.
‘However, clearly, he is the identical previous Bobby, who I’ve recognized since school, within the days when his dorm room had ladies lined as much as have intercourse with him,’ the insider stated.
‘Bobby’s like a sexual Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – he is been that approach for many years — and when the chance arises with a lady – in his case, nearly any lady — the monster aspect surfaces and controls his mind. I think that is what occurred as soon as once more when he bought entangled in his on-line sexual relationship with Olivia.’
As a journalist and bestselling writer who has coated the Kennedys for years, two of my 13 books have been concerning the legendary household, and the latest is the one biography of the troubled namesake of assassinated Senator Robert Kennedy, entitled, ‘RFK JR. and the Darkish Facet of the Dream.’
As a part of my a number of years of analysis for the guide, I probed Kennedy’s life – from his troubled teen years when his father was murdered and his mom, Ethel Skakel Kennedy, all however deserted him, turning over his upbringing to a longtime homosexual household buddy, to his years of drug habit, together with, however not restricted to heroin, which he would rating in Harlem.
Hines had been seen at her husband’s aspect all through his presidential marketing campaign which he suspended in August
Hines has been a daily customer to the Kennedy compound in Hyannisport, Massachusetts, because the couple married there in August 2014
Mates say Hines has loved being a member of America’s royal household all through the couple’s 10-year marriage. The couple are pictured with Al Gore and Ethel Kennedy on the 2011 Robert F. Kennedy Middle for Justice and Human Rights Ripple of Hope Awards dinner
‘I had impulses,’ he stated on the time, ‘then it become one thing else.’
I regarded into his three marriages. In two of them, his obsessive womanizing would play a task within the unions’ failing. And now it seems his third marriage, with Hines, is nearing an finish due to the sexting affair.
Kennedy wed Hines within the storied Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port, on August 2, 2014 – a bit of over two years after his second spouse, Mary Richardson, mom of 4 of his six youngsters, had hanged herself at age 52 in an previous storage on Kennedy’s property in bucolic and rich Mount Kisco, New York.
Earlier than her tragic suicide Bobby had been interviewed for a narrative in Oprah Winfrey’s widespread O Journal, and he blatantly declared: ‘I believe Mary would name me a fairly good husband.’
However that was removed from true, given his womanizing, Mary Richardson was a really troubled and cuckolded partner, in response to quite a few shut sources I interviewed.
Confidantes of Mary informed me that she turned conscious of his womanizing — loads of affairs, a few of them long-term – ‘and was livid’ – identical to his subsequent spouse, Hines, is alleged to be years later.
The long run presidential hopeful’s come-ons to females had develop into legend.
When he was in Alcoholics Nameless, he made a ‘sexual advance’ on one other member.
At dinner events, he was recognized to the touch the legs and fondle feminine dinner visitors seated on both aspect of him.
Nuzzi was till not too long ago engaged to Washington correspondent Ryan Lizza, 50
The New York journal Washington correspondent was positioned on go away following information of her relationship with Robert F Kennedy Jr.
For his half, Kennedy has prevented discussing the connection, besides by means of mates who claimed the reporter pursued him and that the 2 had solely met as soon as when Nuzzi interviewed him for the journal
As one credible supply revealed: ‘He could be on the dinner desk and his arms would go all up their legs or skirts. The Kennedy aura, nevertheless, stored them from saying, ‘You are an a**gap.’
On at the least one event, Kennedy’s ‘inappropriate habits,’ included strutting round with a towel wrapped round his waist, then dropped it, exposing his genitals to an harmless feminine.
At a personal and posh fitness center and well being membership in Westchester County, New York, Bobby started increase his physique , utilizing an Arnold Schwarzenegger wannabe sort of man’ as his coach, and demanding the utmost quantity of weight – eight hundred to a thousand kilos positioned on the leg press machine.
Then married to Mary Richardson, he was constructing his physique to draw different ladies, and was profitable, together with with a match blonde in her thirties – a married mom, in accordance a longtime membership supply.
Bobby and the girl had a extra intimate relationship exterior the fitness center – they might ‘rendezvous’ within the membership’s car parking zone, the insider claimed.
Bobby infuriated his second spouse, Mary, when he started holding conferences of members from an area department of Tennessee-headquartered Sexaholics Nameless, on the Kennedy household house in Mount Kisko.
However Mary ended the observe fearing it was harmful having unusual males with sexual habit issues round the home, particularly when the Kennedy youngsters have been there.
RFK Jr. married second spouse Mary Kathleen Richardson, with whom he had 4 youngsters, in 1994. She died by suicide in 2012 amid their divorce
Hines had develop into publicly concerned together with her now husband when he was nonetheless married to his second spouse. They’re all pictured collectively in 2010
Mary as soon as confided to a buddy that Bobby had tried to lure her right into a threesome, however she was sickened by the invitation and refused.
At one level, Bobby’s mobile phone listing contained the primary names and phone numbers of greater than forty ladies situated all around the U.S., Canada, and even Paris.
Furthermore, he was stated to have used the identify ‘Robert Sturdy’ as an alias when he travelled, apparently to cover his well-known Kennedy identify from ladies he met on the street.
Whereas Mary Richardson was very a lot conscious of Bobby’s womanizing, she was shocked when she discovered from a confidante that her husband was having an affair with Cheryl Hines.
Mary claimed she had launched Hines to Bobby at a charity occasion, though Bobby and Hines asserted their buddy, the comic Larry David, had made the introduction.
David as soon as made a prediction to Bobby after he tied the knot with Cheryl. He informed him: ‘Nothing you’ll ever do will rattle her.’
As we speak, Larry David, who performed Hines quirky and neurotic Jewish husband on Curb Your Enthusiasm, could need to eat these phrases.
As a longtime confidant of Bobby’s informed me after I was probing his marriages and his womanizing for his biography:
‘Any lady who will get concerned with Bobby does so together with her eyes open… Any lady who thinks they’ll change Bobby is misguided and has to grasp what she’s entering into with him.
‘You may hate it, you can also make excuses for it, you are able to do no matter you wish to do, it would not change the truth that he has a protracted historical past of doing sure issues. And in the event you assume, Wow, I will be totally different, then you definately’re f**ked.’
