Cheryl Hines Polices Her Marriage
Curb Your Enthusiasm star Cheryl Hines is policing her marriage to philandering husband, Robert F Kennedy, Jr. Issuing an ultimatum that she needs to be with him in Washington D.C. to tether his wandering dick.
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Let’s face it, you’re never off to a good start when you have to cajole your husband to live in the same city as you. But apparently that’s the current state of affairs (I pun) between worm-brained science denier and inexplicable Health and Human Services director Robert F Kennedy Jr. and his wife, actress Cheryl Hines.
‘Move me or else.’
The Curb Your Enthusiasm star has given her 71-year-old husband a “strict ultimatum” to relocate her to Washington D.C. with him, just months after a cheating scandal rocked their marriage, sources told the Daily Mail.
Hines, 59, fears that her notoriously flirty husband might be tempted by other women if she continues to stay put in Hollywood away from him, the insiders claimed.
“Cheryl doesn’t feel Bobby can be trusted one iota living on his own, in D.C., even part-time, with so many attractive women and Kennedy groupies around, as he gets settled in his powerful new position,” one insider told the Daily Mail. “So she’s given him a strict ultimatum – move me or else.”
You’ll recall we snarked about one of RFK Jr.’s paramours, the journalist Olivia Nuzzi awhile back. Sounds like a big job, playing defense to all those Kennedy groupies. I am, however, skeptical of this threat. Having lived in the DC area most of my adult life since 1990, I’ve yet to meet a Kennedy groupie. (Do they throw underwear at think tanks? Hang out back stage at budget hearings?) They must be octogenarians by now. But I probably don’t hang out in the right circles.
Anyway, the point is, Bobby cannot be trusted. Hypervigilance is essential.
Cheryl Hines, this is not the enviable marriage you think it is.
I would give my usual chump speech about the futility of serving on the Marriage Police force, how the FW isn’t worth it — except Cheryl Hines knows from Kennedy groupies. She was his mistress (among many) when RFK Jr. was married to his second wife Mary Richardson. So, Cheryl, congrats. You won the pick me dance. Enjoy all that super specialness.
Mary Richardson hung herself in 2012, depressed from Kennedy’s serial cheating. But before she died, she reportedly catalogued all her findings from her time on the Marriage Police force. That included discovering Cheryl Hines’ name in a list of 43 other mistresses on his cellphone.
There were so many women on the list, some of whom shared the same first name, that the entries had to be distinguished by their profession or city.
Kennedy’s second wife, Mary Richardson died by suicide in 2012, and once told a friend her philandering husband also used aliases to hide his own identity while globe-trotting.
His preferred pseudonym was “Robert Strong,” she claimed.
The environmental lawyer also documented his extramarital exploits in a series of diaries seen by The Post after Mary’s tragic death. The 398 pages included codes for different sexual acts.
But hey, that was who he was with Mary, okay? I’m sure he’s conquered his “lust demons” now, right?
Oh, Olivia Nuzzi. Oops. Right. Well, Cheryl do give up your career for this dreamboat. I’m sure it will all be worth it to be his plus-one at ribbon cuttings. Or the next measles outbreak. Or whatever he’s up to in D.C. You won this misery. Revel in it.
Thank you for this, he’s a nut bag and putting the entire country at risk, and she’s equally stupid to put up with his vaccine nonsense and his cheating, but my question is: can’t she move herself to DC? Does she have credit cards? Can she book a flight? Is she under house arrest? If she wants to go there, she should just go.
I wondered the same thing. Sounds like she has to ask Daddy for permission.
That question jumped off the page right from the start! She’s 59 years old, she doesn’t need anybody’s permission to fly down to DC.
I do think there’s probably a LOT more to this story — I didn’t actually realize the full extent of his cheating, but it’s not like there weren’t red flags all over the place. Even if he weren’t a cheater — the dead whale head thing would have been kind of a dealbreaker for me.
What a prize.
That was my first question also – why can’t she just move herself?
Right? It comes across like he has specifically told her she CAN’T move to DC, which is WILD.
Given how many private citizen Chumps here are embarrassed and ashamed that their spouse cheated, the idea of being in her shoes, where they are both public figures and the whole country is watching her play marriage police is just…wow.
Not to mention she is Cheryl Hines! She had plenty of non-cheater, single men to choose from. Instead she picks a lunatic, serial-cheater. WHY? Such a prize she won.
May his late chump wife rest in peace.
Don’t forget, she was a willing AP for him (Mistress of Mr. Wormbrain?). She’s a cheater herself. Not the best starting material for a marriage, eh?
I knew that and completely forgot while commenting!!! But that makes my point of “She’s Cheryl Hines!” even more potent. She probably had loads of options and she instead picked this terrible MARRIED guy? WHY?
I had similar thoughts about the AP in my story. She was younger than him and attractive. She lived across the country. So..she had a long term, long distance affair with a married guy with kids? She could have found a guy in her own state to date that was married with kids, or a few states away who was married but had no kids, or ….you get the point. Ethics aside, there had to of been so many more convenient options available to a young, attractive woman.
They met online. She must have come across hundreds of guys online and she picks the one in a different time zone, married, with kids?
I get why HE did it. Hell, it was larely an emotional affair. He could sit across from me in our living room, telling me he loved me while texting her the same. Very little risk of getting caught. All kibbles. In fact, he didn’t get caught. He admitted it all on his own. (Though I suspect she may have iven him an ultimatum prompting it)
I had the same question. I figured that it means, you need to set me up with a home in the right part of town, where everyone knows we live together. She could fly down on her own, but then she’d be setting up her own accommodation? Or having to sleep on the couch (metaphorically) in his DC digs which, without her, would be his AP-banging pad?
Mary’s family said, “you killed her”. I believe them.
Again…what Kennedy has NOT killed someone???
I think in many ways he helped push her to the brink even if he didn’t tie the noose. But the late Mary Richardson is a cautionary tale for APs and OWives not so much for chumps. She was apparently involved in a two year affair with Kennedy while he was still married to his first wife, law school classmate Emily Black. Richardson was six months pregnant when she married Kennedy just three weeks after his first divorce.
Black, the one genuine chump in this horror show, might have an interesting perspective on everything that’s happened since. I doubt she received any support or condolences by Mary Richardson’s family much less from Richardson or Kennedy. But she’s always kept a low profile and has never spoken publicly about the cheating scandal or divorce. She continued working as a defense attorney and eventually quietly married someone from her hometown in Indiana.
Not that I typically hold much sympathy for witting affair partners but I suspect the above kind of mightiness is much further out of reach in the all too likely case that they end up getting hoisted on their own petards. I imagine that has to be a truly special hell and a prescription for insanity to find oneself in the same boat as the chump one once contemptuously conspired against. Genuine chumps at least have the refuge of being innocent and will be welcome in chump support networks. But former APs who get betrayed by the very person they aided and abetted in betraying someone else are basically howling in the wilderness between wagon circles.
Like the suicide of Assia Wevil whose affair with and pregnancy by poet Ted Hugues drove his wife Sylvia Plath to suicide, I sense there’s as much irony as tragedy in Mary Richardson’s death.
Wow, I had no idea. The karma bus sure came around, didn’t it?
The fact the poor kids took the brunt is why I don’t believe in karma. But I do think the Golden Rule has a dark side: people who are careless with others often aren’t careful in general and may run themselves up the creek.
Maybe the brain worm slithered from his brain into hers? I can’t think of a single reason why anyone would want to be within 15 miles of this POS, much less married to him. But then again, she was dumb enough to have an affair with him so…
She got her karma, didn’t she! If he can cheat on his wife with you…
This man has ZERO respect for women, he proved that to his current wife Cheryl by using her to cheat on Mary (Cheryl was one of many he used to do this to this poor woman). Why on earth did Cheryl think she was so special that he wouldn’t cheat on her? Especially once it was revealed what a monster this guy was/is? I don’t feel sorry for her at all. She signed up for this by marrying him. She earned this!
They always think they’re special and have an edge on any wife – an edge on delusion, maybe.
I am enjoying this show. It is a real time view of what happens to APs who “win” the cheater. Good luck with that. I’m glad not to live that life anymore!
Klootzak is finally shopping for a new place to live. I’m sure he wants to move the Latest Not the Greatest in with him as soon as the ink is dry on the divorce. What an outstanding example he is for our son. He can’t be without a monkey branch. 🙄 Same for RFK Jr. Had to have the next one lined up to give him some veneer of normalcy. It’s so gross. Klootzak also had (has?) a long list of names with codes next to each name. He keeps them all in contacts in his burner phone under the names of normal people we know. If you open the contact for my mother, his sister, his coworker, his high school buddy, etc., all the numbers and info are for side pieces. He’s so gross. And controlling. He keeps looking for a place to live right in my neighborhood. I’m on a one way street and he keeps looking for places upstream of my house by a few blocks so he can drive past my house every day. I only wish the latest AP would have moved him away but she has contacts in the area so I think I am now stuck with him in my ‘hood.
At least Cheryl Hines has a chance to get him away if she wants to. File for divorce while RFK Jr is in DC and enjoy the peace of the West Coast without him. If she were smart she would take the opportunity, but APs and FWs always have to double down.
I wonder if she signed a prenup with terms that aren’t in her favor if she leaves?
I am holding Larry David responsible for the Cheryl Hines shit show. He should be telling her in the strongest way that RFK Jr. is a nut-job.
I doubt she would listen.
Well Epstein’s list is coming out soon, maybe he will be on it….you can’t make this stuff up.
Thank you Tracy, I’ve been looking forward to your snark on this one. Cheryl has to be terrified because all those cute, young MAHA moms just loooooove Bobby. Worship is probably a better word. Cheryl is toast.
Am I the only one thinking that the prize that Cheryl Hines won for being RFK Jr’s AP and winning the pick-me-dance (ie marrying RFK Jr) also contained the perfect karmic punishment for her behaviour …. having to police her marriage to RFK Jr.
They truly deserve each other.
LFTT
I mean, if he wants to rehome “misguided teens” to work on plantat-er, “Farms” to cure their depression from “addictive” anti-depressants, THE LEAST he could do is move his, you know, wife in with him. It’s only fair.
Anti-depressants are addictive? Have never ever heard that from any doctor. The guy is a nut!
I just read the story of Mary Richardson, and it hurts my heart. That poor woman. I understand, as maybe only another chump could, what she must have been going through. He used her up until there was nothing left, then tossed her aside like garbage, all the while playing the poor victim of the crazy wife.
Her story also terrifies me. I’ve had those thoughts too – that I wouldn’t care if I just died, because then at least the pain would stop. I was never close to actually doing it, but there were a few days when I think it was only the thought of the devastation it would cause my children that might have prevented me.
How anyone can breathe the same air as this man and not want to vomit is beyond me.
I think many of us had those feelings. We aren’t just hurt, but in many cases we are afraid of what the future will hold and it can just be so overwhelming. Nothing about the process feels good or easy. It’s all kind of terrifying and frequently terrible.
I was convinced I’d be homeless. In hindsight, that was never likely to be the case. But you are just so vulnerable in that moment and it’s easy to believe the worst.
As others have said, it WILL get better. You will likely have moments when you believe that, and others when you think “Shut up SortOfOverIt, my life is never going to be ok again”. But it simply WILL get better. It will take time and you may have to fake it til you make it.
I’ve been there. ♥️
I’m happy to report that it gets better and better after you leave the FW. Then you realize the thoughts are gone.
If you ever have those thoughts again, please know we’re here and understand.
You’re not alone even if you feel no one else gets it .
Awww, thanks Bluewren, I so appreciate that! And the same goes for you, and everyone here at CN. We need each other.
It’s amazing how much just having someone say “I get it, I understand how much you hurt, I care” can help. I’m in a MUCH better place than I was yesterday thanks to the kindness I received here.
I wish Mary Richardson had gotten the same kind of support. Such a tragic waste of a beautiful life, over a worthless fuckwit.
Same old story- if they cheat with you they’ll cheat on you- bet on it.
She gets no sympathy from me – lady, you knew what you were signing up for and you don’t have a magical vagina that will bring a halt to all those extra side dishes your husband loves so much, no matter what he says or what deluded therapists tell you.
Cut it out, woman- have a bit of respect for yourself.
Why does she need him to “move” her there? She can’t pack her stuff and move there herself? She needs his permission? What a pathetic creature. That slobbering IG post is nauseating. I’d be enjoying the schadenfreude to an OW if RFK and his cronies weren’t a clear and present danger to millions of people.
Let’s talk to the gazillion men and woman married to alcoholics, drug addicts, or compulsive behavior folks of all stripes, and ask them how their own police surveillance and ultimatums have worked for them. I could answer that question too…. in my belief that I was special,
That only I had the keys to his heart, that ONLY I understood his desire to be loved unconditionally, only
I understood his mental disturbamces, his devaluing and abuse of me was a deep inner pain that only I could comprehend. I waa super chosen and very special to him.. All the while, he had a basement life and zero guilt for my wounds.So that is my work to do now. The savior complex almost killed me as I stood by and UNDERSTOOD him.
Most of us here know that futility. Not one Shred of sympathy do I have for this woman who is prostrating herself before a blazoned outright cheater. A woman who took part in hurting others that were married to this creep and worked the basement looking for that prize.A man without a heart beating in his chest. The arrogance and entitlement is baked in the genes. No sympathy and no time to waste with this couple of entertainers. I have Healing work to do on me.
I was going to say I would rather Kathy Bates smash my ankles with a sledgehammer than live another second with someone I couldn’t trust one iota. But then I read down further and see that Cheryl was once a paramour and co-conspirator against a now dead Chump. So to Cheryl I say, STFU.
Of note in the linked New York Post article regarding RFK’s journals and the deceased ex-wife, Mary Richardson: “The couple had known each other since Richardson was 14 and a boarding-school roommate of Kennedy’s younger sister, Kerry. They married in 1994, weeks after Kennedy divorced his first wife, Emily Black, with whom he had two children. Richardson was pregnant with their first child, Conor, when they married.”
Does that timeline mean Mary Richardson was an AP as well?
Yes. She knew he was still married when they got involved with each other and she became pregnant with their first child.
Another cautionary tale for all the Schmoopies lurking on this site – You Are Not Special. Mary Richardson was not Special. Cheryl Hines is not Special. No one is special to Cheaters, except themselves.
And as a Part 2, please please Chump. No cheater abusers is worth the price of your beautiful life!!!!!!!!! There.is a little Mary in many of us. We can’t see the future but it looks bleak now. I’m begging you, trust that these cheaters are bottom dwellers. Trust that they are missing the gene to love, trust that you will be better off in so many ways. Get help, it is out there. Do not give these creeps the eternal cake and forever kibble THAT THEY WERE WORTH DYING FOR. PLEASE I BEG YOU, don’t let them win this way. Live mighty , stay with us..Let them go spread their manure in someone else’s life. Listen TO CL and Stay here with us as we get a life.
Social media posts from celebrities are such a joke. Cheryl starts writing her anniversary post to Bobby . . . but refers to his mom as Ethel (in case he forgot his mom’s name?!?). And she clarifies who family members are (in case he doesn’t know his niece and nephew?!?). Who is this post for – Bobby? Or Cheryl’s fans? 😂
I think she’s high on the fumes of being a Kennedy.
I like Cheryl Hine’s professional work, but extremely disappointed she participated in cheating…actions that contributed to that poor woman’s death. (Just read below that Mary was also a Kennedy mistress…my feelings about her have changed. Guess it’s a hard reality to realize you’re not so special after all). People, know your worth, and it’s definitely not being a minion groveling about in a cheater’s orbit!!
Excuse me but…what Kennedy has ever been faithful – except for Rose???