‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Star Cheryl Hines Addresses Husband RFK Jr’s Cheating Controversy With a Female Journalist
A media firestorm, private heartbreak, and political fallout collide as a Hollywood star speaks out about the rumors that rocked her marriage and shook a high-stakes presidential campaign.
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Cheryl Hines has finally broken her silence on the explosive controversy engulfing her husband, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and political reporter Olivia Nuzzi, whose alleged entanglement with the 2024 presidential hopeful led to her shocking suspension from New York magazine.
Olivia Nuzzi attends Vox Media's Code Conference - Day 2 on September 7, 2022 in Beverly Hills, California | Source: Getty Images
The beloved actor, best known for her role on the Emmy-winning comedy "Curb Your Enthusiasm," opened up during an appearance on the "Katie Miller Pod," revealing how the relentless media storm unfolded during what was already an emotionally exhausting chapter in her life.
"Bobby had been running for president, and it was an exhausting year and a half of headlines and rumors and articles and chaos," Hines admitted. "And at that time, I thought, 'Okay, this is more chaos and more rumors.' And, um, it was a lot. It was coming up on the heels of everything else."
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Pressed on how she managed the unrelenting wave of speculation, Hines shared her deeply personal process — one that starts with media scrutiny and ends in private trust.
"I think you always have to consider the source, right? So, that's where I start," she said. "And then it ends with a conversation with Bobby. So, getting to the truth of the matter, and then that's where it ends."
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The scandal exploded publicly in September 2024, when New York magazine dropped a bombshell: Olivia Nuzzi, one of its star political writers, had admitted to a personal relationship with a subject tied to the 2024 presidential campaign — a stunning breach of journalistic ethics.
According to the magazine, "Recently our Washington Correspondent Olivia Nuzzi acknowledged to the magazine's editors that she had engaged in a personal relationship with a former subject relevant to the 2024 campaign while she was reporting on the campaign, a violation of the magazine's standards around conflicts of interest and disclosures."
Olivia Nuzzi attends the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner at Washington Hilton on April 29, 2023 in Washington, DC | Source: Getty Images
Though a swift internal review revealed no bias or factual errors in Nuzzi's coverage, the magazine made its stance clear, stating, "Had the magazine been aware of this relationship, she would not have continued to cover the presidential campaign." She was placed on leave, and an external review was launched.
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