Cheryl Hines’ husband, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has denied having an inappropriate “private relationship” with New York Journal correspondent Olivia Nuzzi.
“Mr. Kennedy solely met Olivia Nuzzi as soon as in his life for an interview she requested, which yielded a success piece,” a rep for Kennedy, 70, instructed NBC Information on Friday, September 20.
A number of hours earlier, New York Journal printed a public apology to its readers and cited that Nuzzi had didn’t disclose a “private relationship” with an unnamed topic she profiled in 2024 election protection.
“She is presently on go away from the journal, and the journal is conducting a extra thorough third-party assessment. We remorse this violation of our readers’ belief,” the journal’s assertion learn.
Neither New York Journal nor Nuzzi publicly named Kennedy, however a number of different retailers together with CNN and The New York Instances reported that the topic was Kennedy.
Cheryl Hines and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic
In an announcement to The Instances, Nuzzi revealed that she had “some communication between myself and a former reporting topic turned private” earlier this 12 months.
“I didn’t instantly report on the topic nor use them as a supply. The connection was by no means bodily however ought to have been disclosed to forestall the looks of a battle,” Nuzzi’s assertion added. “I deeply remorse not doing so instantly and apologize to these I’ve disenchanted, particularly my colleagues at New York.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Cheryl Hines. Justin Sullivan/Getty Photographs
Kennedy has been married to actress Hines, 58, since 2014. The couple met in 2004 at a star ski fundraiser in Canada benefitting Kennedy’s Waterkeeper Alliance. Kennedy and Hines stayed mates for years. Their dynamic modified in 2010 after Hines finalized her divorce from ex-husband Paul Younger. (Hines and Younger share daughter Catherine.)
“I noticed within the paper that Bobby was going by way of a divorce, too,” Hines recalled to The Hollywood Reporter in a January profile. “And I bear in mind considering, ‘Oh, that’s fascinating. We’re going by way of the identical factor.’”
The pair commiserated over their respective divorces — Kennedy was beforehand married to Mary Richardson Kennedy from 1994 to 2012 and Emily Ruth Black from 1982 to 1994 — at that 12 months’s Waterkeeper Alliance ski fundraiser and “one thing clicked.”
“I noticed him by way of completely different eyes,” Hines recalled to the journal. “It was like, ‘Oh, you’re really good-looking.”
She added, “I preferred that after we obtained collectively, we had been from two completely different worlds. I preferred that he wasn’t within the leisure enterprise. I preferred that he was doing environmental legislation. And the Kennedy facet? That didn’t appear to matter that a lot to me as a result of he wasn’t in politics and his household was very heat and welcoming.”
Hines has not publicly addressed Kennedy’s latest scandal. Us Weekly has reached out for remark.