Does Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Prove Once a Cheater, Always a Cheater?

A study indicates the past matters, but some people change

Vicki Larson

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Right on the heels of Foo Fighters founder Dave Grohl’s bombshell announcement that he had a baby with someone other than his wife comes the news that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the 70-year-old former presidential hopeful, has been canoodling with 31-year-old New York magazine journalist Olivia Nuzzi, who was placed on leave once she confessed to a relationship that started after she profiled him and allegedly sent “demure” nudes to Kennedy.

And now Kennedy’s wife of 10 years, Curb Your Enthusiasm star Cheryl Hines, 59, is thrust into the drama and having to answer to a question: what, if anything, did she know about his philandering past?

It certainly wasn’t a secret.

According to Kennedy’s private diary that was leaked to the New York Post in 2013 — while Hines and Kennedy were dating — and in which he kept track of and rated some of his lovers, Kennedy admits to struggling with “lust demons.”

In his 2016 book, JFK Jr.: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and the Dark Side of the Dream, Jerry Oppenheimer states that Kennedy has allegedly cheated on numerous past lovers and his two wives, and that Hines’ friends tried to warn her that he was a…

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Vicki Larson

Award-winning journalist, author of “Not Too Old For That" & "LATitude: How You Can Make a Live Apart Together Relationship Work, coauthor of “The New I Do,”