This past March, Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and his marriage to “Curb Your Enthusiasm” actress Cheryl Hines seemed to be on the mend after a shocking sexting scandal with political journalist Olivia Nuzzi unraveled.
At the time, Hines seemed ready to forgive and forget, and was poised to move to Washington D.C. with RFK, Jr.
But things have reportedly taken a sudden turn in their marriage, with insiders now saying that the couple’s marriage is on some serious rocks despite RFK, Jr’s best effort to woo Hines to D.C.
RFK, Jr feels “he’s been taken for a ride” by wife Hines — after he bought a home in Washington, DC, to please her, and the actress now has “no plans” to leave Hollywood or “become a full-time political wife,” according to sources who spoke with media outlet Page Six.
“Bobby felt the house in Georgetown would mend their marital bridges,” one insider said of the $4.34 million, 19th-century house that Kennedy, 71, purchased, allegedly at Hines’ request, last April.
The insider described the townhouse as the embodiment of Kennedy’s hopes for “keeping their marriage alive and that the two could become Washington’s latest power couple.”
This new twist comes after Hines, 59, had asked Kennedy to move her from California to the nation’s capital indefinitely.
“Cheryl doesn’t feel Bobby can be trusted one iota living on his own, in DC, even part-time, with so many attractive women and Kennedy groupies around, as he gets settled in his powerful new position,” a source said at the time.
“So she’s given him a strict ultimatum — move me or else.”
“Bobby swore to Cheryl there would be no more playing around with other women, and he restored Cheryl’s trust in him to keep it in his pants,” another insider claimed.
It also appears that Hines has had a change of heart about living in the nation’s capital, despite her earlier demands to remain close to her husband.
While Hines is now said to trust Kennedy, whom she wed in 2014, to be monogamous, the actress told a pal that DC is a “deadbeat town” according to Page Six.
The famously liberal actress is also “still not convinced Bobby should be working in the right-wing Republican Trump administration.”
However, Kennedy and Hines have appeared seemingly happy together in public in the months since the scandal.
The actress publicly supported her husband during his heated confirmation hearings in January.
Hines then attended Kennedy’s swearing-in ceremony at the White House, where the pair stood hand in hand as President Trump hailed the Make America Healthy Again movement.
According to reports, Hines remains focused on her work in Hollywood.
Hines recently executive-produced a “psychological thriller” short film, “Prowl,” starring herself and her 20-year-old daughter Catherine-Rose Young, from her first marriage.
It premiered at the Sardinia Film Festival last month.