Robert F. Kennedy Jr. feels “he’s been taken for a ride” by wife Cheryl 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.
“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’ behest, last April.
The insider described the town house as the embodiment of Kennedy’s hopes for “keeping their marriage alive and that the two could become Washington’s latest power couple.”
Last September, Kennedy was accused of having a “sexting” relationship with former New York Magazine writer Olivia Nuzzi, 32, who had covered him for the publication.
When the scandal broke, the source said, Hines, 59, was in “a state of shock and seriously considered filing for divorce.”
The “Curb Your Enthusiasm” actress was even spotted traveling alone in Milan and without her rose gold engagement ring and matching wedding band featuring two dozen French-cut diamonds. She has since been spotted wearing the band.
Once Kennedy accepted his role as Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services in the Trump administration, Hines, his third wife, gave him an “ultimatum,” one of the sources said, to move her to DC “post-haste” so she could keep his “lust demons” — the term he used in secret sex diaries seen by The Post — in check.
“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,” the insider explained.
Kennedy has denied any romantic involvement with Nuzzi.
Representatives for Kennedy and Hines did not return requests for comment.
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.”
The actress is also “still not convinced Bobby should be working in the right-wing Republican Trump administration,” the source said.
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.