While Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been busy upending America’s health care by forcing out top scientists and overseeing the mass firing of 10,000 Department of Health and Human Services Department employees, the Trump cabinet secretary has found time to buy his TV star wife, Cheryl Hines, a fancy new house in Washington, DC,’s most storied neighborhood.

It turns out that the elegant, $4.34 million townhouse in “ritzy” Georgetown fulfills two of Hines’ needs, according to Kennedy biographer Jerry Oppenheimer, writing in the Daily Mail.

First of all, Hines’ three-story colonial-style row home replicates the kind of Georgetown residence that Jackie Kennedy enjoyed in the 1950s, when her husband, John F. Kennedy — Kennedy’s uncle — served in Washington, D.C., as a U.S. senator from Massachusetts, Oppenheimer said.

Oppenheimer said his sources told him that Hines’ reasoning for wanting to live in affluent Georgetown was because “she felt living there would give her the imprimatur of being a genuine Kennedy wife, like Jackie when she was married to Jack.”

WASHINGTON, DC – FEBRUARY 13: U.S. President Donald Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Kennedy’s wife Cheryl Hines, his family and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch pose after Kennedy was sworn in as Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Oval Office at the White House on February 13, 2025 in Washington, DC. Kennedy, who faced criticism for his past comments on vaccine, was confirmed by the Senate 52 to 48. Former Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was the only Republican to vote against him. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) 

It also happens that Hines’ new house is just a flew blocks from where John and Jackie Kennedy lived, before he was elected president and they occupied the White House from 1961 to 1963.

But Hines new home fulfills another big need: To keep her close to her notoriously philandering husband in Washington, D.C., so that won’t be tempted to embroil himself in yet another cheating scandal, according to Oppenheimer.

After Kennedy was confirmed as President Trump’s new HHS secretary, Hines had to deal with the fear that her husband, a scion of the Kennedy family, would succumb to his self-proclaimed “lust demons” if he was allowed to live on his own, even part-time, in Washington, D.C.

As is well known, Kennedy cheated on his first two wives, Emily Black and Mary Richardson. The latter, the mother of his four younger children, died by suicide in 2013, reportedly distraught over his serial infidelity and impending divorce.

Fast forward to last fall, when Kennedy was caught up in a bizarre sexting scandal with glamorous New York magazine political reporter, Olivia Nuzzi, who, at 31, was half his age.

The Nuzzi affair was “the last straw” for Hines, who seemingly “lost all trust in Bobby ever being monogamous” — even though she, herself, began dating him when he was still married to Richardson, according to Oppenheimer.

Hines was “blindsided” when her husband’s alleged year-long sexting affair with Nuzzi became the talk of Washington in late September and early October. Lurid reports about the scandal included claims that Kennedy vowed to “impregnate” the journalist after meeting her when she interviewed him for a New York magazine story. As the Nuzzi scandal broke, Mediaite also reported that three more women, who were affiliated with Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization, claimed that they, too, had affairs with the former environmental lawyer over the past year.

Moreover, both Kennedy and Hines have had to deal with an allegation, first reported in Vanity Fair, that he sexually assaulting his children’s babysitter in 1998. The alleged assault came up in his contentious confirmation hearing to become the head of Health and Human Services. Kennedy denied the allegation and claimed it had been “debunked.

In early October, prior to Trump’s election, Oppenheimer reported in the Daily Mail that Hines had reached the limits of her marriage to the “egomaniacal” and politically polarizing Kennedy and was considering a divorce. Even though Hines was aware of her husband’s “checkered” sexual history, she firmly believed that he “finally had his sex demons under control” with his political aspirations and as he reached his seventh decade, a friend told Oppenheimer.

Kennedy himself had referred to his “demons” in a “sex diary” he once kept. The red-bound diary was found in Richardson’s home after her death. Excerpts were published in the New York Post in 2013, revealing that he had repeatedly cheated on his second wife and liked to detail and rate his sexual encounters with other multiple women.

But by mid-October, Hines publicly rejected the divorce rumors at a Hollywood event. At the time, Hines also was dealing with the backlash over Kennedy’s decision to suspend his own presidential candidacy and endorse Trump.

Speaking to reporters at the 50th anniversary party for the Groundlings comedy theater troupe, she said she was “feeling good” and relying on her love “connection” with Kennedy to help them weather the various controversies around them. “There’s, like, a connection that you look at your husband or your partner and all the crazy going on around you, or you look and you check in and it’s like, ‘OK. It’s going to be OK,’” Hines said.

Now, Hines can deal with “the crazy” while living it up as a political spouse and potential Georgetown hostess, according to Oppenheimer.  She’ll be leaving behind their $6.6 million, Mediterranean-style home in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles — which survived the Palisades Fire. That home boasts lush gardens, swimming pool and Tiki bar, the Daily Mail reported last year. 

It’s not clear when Hines will officially move to Washington D.C. but her new Georgetown home boasts traditional elegance, with an “open-concept” formal living room, dining room and chef’s kitchen, according to Oppenheimer. The former Hollywood progressive could throw parties there for her new friends in MAGA world.

Speaking of which, Oppenheimer reported that Hines wants to develop a right-leaning TV talk show to compete with “The View” on ABC. She’s also hoping that her husband’s powerful new cabinet position in the Trump administration will provide her with “a Hollywood ending” — of sorts.

“It’s clear that Cheryl wants to keep the marriage alive, is hoping that she can regain her trust in Bobby,” an insider told Oppenheimer. “But only time will tell.”