Health and Human Services Secretary-slash-anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently plunked down $4.43 million for a 125-year-old, four-bedroom home in Washington, DC’s tony Georgetown neighborhood, multiple outlets report. According to CBS, Kennedy closed on the property on Friday, April 4, days after conducting a final walk-through with his team.
A Daily Mail story cites sources who claim that the purchase signifies that Kennedy has “caved in” to the demands of Cheryl Hines, his wife and Curb Your Enthusiasm star, so she can “keep close tabs on the serial Casanova” following his alleged relationship with reporter Olivia Nuzzi. Representatives for Kennedy did not immediately respond to Vanity Fair, and Hines, through a representative, declined to comment.
“Cheryl was furious and made her demands very clear,” the source told the Daily Mail. “She told Bobby in no uncertain terms she wanted to live in Georgetown, in one of its spectacular row homes and she was very bossy about it, giving him an ultimatum to move her to DC forthwith, or face the wrath of God.”
Women, am I right?! Sheesh.
Former Curb Your Enthusiasm actor Hines, 59, and Kennedy will have dominion over the 4,876-square-foot townhouse’s four bedrooms, three-and-a-half bathrooms, chef’s kitchen, reading nook, terrace, wine cellar, two laundry rooms, wet bar, and more, in a home described in the listing as “the epitome of Georgetown elegance.”
There’s apparently only one parking space, so that could be a future pain point.
Kennedy is the latest to participate in the Hamptonsification of DC, spurring the run on luxury real estate that came with the second Donald Trump presidency. In March, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg spent $23 million on a DC mansion, reportedly the third-highest sale price in DC history, trailing Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s $25 million purchase of Fox News’ Bret Baier’s former digs. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will be a Kennedy neighbor, having already purchased his own Georgetown home earlier this year for $12.5 million, and crypto guy David Sacks bought his own $10.25 million penthouse in the neighborhood in December. Of course, there’s the potential for awkwardness if Kennedy runs into former FDA employee Dr. Peter Marks, mastermind of the Project Warp Speed initiative to develop and deploy the COVID-19 vaccine, who also lives in the area.
In a fun bit of historical rich-people trivia, Kennedy isn’t the first of his family to set up in Georgetown: John F. Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy also occupied a few addresses in the area, and the late Sen. Ted Kennedy did as well. In fact, the same agent who in 2018 listed an estate Ted Kennedy once rented was the listing agent for RFK’s new acquisition, and brokered Zuckerberg’s recent deal. Unsurprisingly, the world of all-cash, multi-million dollar real estate deals is a small one.
