Well being and Human Companies Secretary-slash-anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. just lately plunked down $4.43 million for a 125-year-old, four-bedroom residence in Washington, DC’s tony Georgetown neighborhood, a number of shops report. According to CBS, Kennedy closed on the property on Friday, April 4, days after conducting a remaining walk-through together with his crew.
A Daily Mail story cites sources who declare that the acquisition signifies that Kennedy has “caved in” to the calls for of Cheryl Hines, his spouse and Curb Your Enthusiasm star, so she will “preserve shut tabs on the serial Casanova” following his alleged relationship with reporter Olivia Nuzzi. Representatives for Kennedy didn’t instantly reply to Vainness Truthful, and Hines, by means of a consultant, declined to remark.
“Cheryl was livid and made her calls for very clear,” the supply informed the Day by day Mail. “She informed Bobby in no unsure phrases she needed to reside in Georgetown, in certainly one of its spectacular row properties and she or he was very bossy about it, giving him an ultimatum to maneuver her to DC forthwith, or face the wrath of God.”
Ladies, am I proper?! Sheesh.
Former Curb Your Enthusiasm actor Hines, 59, and Kennedy can have dominion over the 4,876-square-foot townhouse’s 4 bedrooms, three-and-a-half loos, chef’s kitchen, studying nook, terrace, wine cellar, two laundry rooms, moist bar, and extra, in a house described within the itemizing as “the epitome of Georgetown magnificence.”
There’s apparently just one parking house, in order that may very well be a future ache level.
Kennedy is the most recent to take part within the Hamptonsification of DC, spurring the run on luxurious actual property that got here with the second Donald Trump presidency. In March, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg spent $23 million on a DC mansion, reportedly the third-highest sale value in DC historical past, trailing Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s $25 million buy of Fox Information’ Bret Baier’s former digs. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent shall be a Kennedy neighbor, having already bought his personal Georgetown residence earlier this 12 months for $12.5 million, and crypto man David Sacks purchased his personal $10.25 million penthouse within the neighborhood in December. After all, there’s the potential for awkwardness if Kennedy runs into former FDA worker Dr. Peter Marks, mastermind of the Undertaking Warp Pace initiative to develop and deploy the COVID-19 vaccine, who additionally lives within the space.
In a enjoyable little bit of historic rich-people trivia, Kennedy isn’t the primary of his household to arrange in Georgetown: John F. Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy additionally occupied a couple of addresses within the space, and the late Sen. Ted Kennedy did as effectively. In reality, the identical agent who in 2018 listed an estate Ted Kennedy as soon as rented was the itemizing agent for RFK’s new acquisition, and brokered Zuckerberg’s current deal. Unsurprisingly, the world of all-cash, multi-million greenback actual property offers is a small one.
