Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s famous actress wife, Cheryl Hines, wants a divorce after she was "blindsided" by his extramarital affair with a journalist.
The Curb Your Enthusiasm actress believed her husband's "philandering" days were over when his texting relationship with journalist Olivia Nuzzi surfaced, Kennedy biographer Jerry Oppenheimer reported in the Daily Mail.
A longtime friend of Hines told the Daily Mail that she had no illusions about Kennedy's sexual compulsions when she married him - their relationship had started as an affair when Kennedy was still married to his second wife Mary Richardson.
In 2012, Richardson killed herself while divorcing Kennedy, whose diary Richardson had discovered. In it, he recorded affairs with 37 women and talked about "lust demons."
Hines had believed her 70-year-old husband had conquered his family's famous vice when the Nuzzi scandal emerged. Now, Hines is "thoroughly embarrassed and furious about his adulterous actions" and "she wants out."
"Cheryl was always very aware that Bobby had a long history of womanizing. She herself had become very publicly involved with him when he was still married to his second wife, so his playing around wasn’t anything new to her," a friend told the Daily Mail.
“However, she firmly believed Bobby, in his seventh decade and with political aspirations, finally had his sex demons under control, and appeared settled down in their seemingly bucolic Southern California domestic life.”
"But she now feels totally blindsided and humiliated. His affair with that woman, Olivia Nuzzi, has wreaked-havoc on their marriage."
Sources previously told PageSix that the septuagenarian Casanova "love bombed" Nuzzi, who met Kennedy while covering his independent presidential campaign - and that they carried on an intimate affair over the phone.
Kennedy has denied the affair took place, with friends of his portraying Nuzzi as the instigator of the relationship.
Kennedy faced backlash from his party and his own famous Democratic family after suspending his campaign to endorse President Trump in August. Democrats shamed Hines, as well, who Kennedy admitted wasn't thrilled about his decision.
The endorsement has added tension to their marriage, sources told PageSix. Indeed, some allege that Hines, a lifelong Democrat, had made peace with her husband's wandering eye and is considering a divorce mainly because of his political conversion.
“She knew she was getting in with a Kennedy, who are known for being infamous womanizers,” said a source. “But she never signed up to be a member of Trump World!”
