By New York Post (Politics) | Created at 2024-09-25 21:52:34 | Updated at 2024-09-30 07:23:43
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. admitted to being a slave to “wild impulses” and “powerful demons” when it to comes to sex, according to exclusive new revelations from his diaries.
“I feel out of control,” writes the former presidential candidate on May 3, 1999, describing how he was invited to a woman’s apartment for a tryst in a secret diary viewed by The Post.
“But there is some part of me that is discontented if I’m not looking for trouble…Sometimes I wonder why God gave me such powerful demons.” Its not clear from the diary whether he met up with the woman in the end.
At that time Kennedy was married to his second wife, Mary Richardson Kennedy, who took her own life in 2012. Today he is married to Hollywood actress Cheryl Hines, but still appears to be struggling with his demons after it was revealed he had been engaged in a nine month alleged sexting relationship with reporter Olivia Nuzzi, 31.
Nuzzi, New York Magazine’s White House correspondent was put on leave last week after her relationship with Kennedy, 70, was revealed. The star political reporter, who wrote a profile of the political scion last year, has insisted their relationship was not physical in nature.
The Post first revealed the secret diaries in 2013, a year after Mary’s suicide.
In one of the three volumes seen by The Post, Kennedy wrote of wrestling with his “lust demons” while keeping a score card of more than two dozen conquests at the back of the thick book, covered in stickers from environmental crusades around the world.
In a review of the diaries this week, The Post found seeds of growing discontent with his wife, whom he became locked in a bitter divorce with before she died in 2012.
“She hates it when I go to bed with her and will never have sex,” he writes about the mother to four of his six children on May 7, 1999 — five years after they married. “She rarely speaks to me of anything but scheduling and her usual encyclopedia of complaints.”
Other entries chronicle Mary’s outbursts against him, in one case presenting him with a schedule for all of their childrens’ after-school activities. “Mary is being impossible,” he writes on June 25, 1999. “She refuses to do anything fun with me.”
A week later, on July 2, he writes “Mary is on a rampage. Throws me out of house and makes scene in front of Bobby… calls the police and tells them lies. I could tell she really wanted to attack me.”
The person he is referring to is Bobby Kennedy III, his son with his first wife Emily Black, who is now married to Amaryllis Fox, a former CIA officer who managed Kennedy’s presidential campaign.
According to the diaries, Kennedy, an environmental lawyer and anti-vaccine activist, spent much of the year jetting around the world to give speeches on protecting the environment.
He chronicles his meetings with celebrities, including Warren Beatty, Lauren Hutton and his friend Glenn Close. In one entry in his 2000 diary, he writes about setting up 55 paid speeches and hoping to use the cash to pay off part of his debts.
In another entry, Kennedy and Richardson meet in Hawaii where he is giving a speech in Feb. 1999. “We have a honeymoon weekend together in the Halkalani Hotel in Waikiki,” he writes of the luxurious waterfront venue.
While waiting for his wife to fly in from New York, Kennedy heads with a friend to the Outrigger Canoe Club and they paddle past the Royal Hawaiian Hotel where his parents spent their honeymoon in 1950.
“John [the friend] managed to pick up two very pretty girls,” he writes. “It always amazes me. His head is shaped like a football and his ears like wings on a blimp. But he is …always successful. He calls it his ‘hobby.'”
The diaries are also peppered with reminders of Alcoholics Anonymous meetings — Kennedy is a former heroin addict — and meals with celebrities and other bold-face names.
In February Kennedy had dinner at Larry and Laurie David’s home, according to the diary. That same year, in October, Larry would premiere “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” his comedy series starring Hines.
Kennedy began dating the Hollywood star while still married to Richardson.
“I am crazy about these guys and about Julia Dreyfus, who was also there,” he writes, adding that Billy Crystal, and other “movie big shots” were also in attendance.
“Lunch with Rob Reiner … Briefly met Bruce Willis and Michelle Pfeiffer…I was struck by how slim and small Willis was,” he writes in another entry.
Following his account of his day in Los Angeles, Kennedy noted “I stayed out of trouble, which always dogs me in LA.”
The reason for him being in California was a meeting of the National Resource Defense Council, a non-profit Kennedy represented as a lawyer.
Kennedy writes about heading to the NRDC office and giving “a little talk to staff” as well as lunch at the Bel Air Hotel with high-powered Hollywood lawyer Skip Brittenham “and his trophy wife Heather.”
Heather Thomas is a philanthropist and former actress best known for her role in the 1980s television series “The Fall Guy.”
The NRDC began a campaign in April, urging Kennedy to drop out of the race for president.
“As current and former leadership and board members of the NRDC Action Fund, as well as former colleagues of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., we have one message for him: Honor our planet, drop out,” reads one of the ads. Kennedy suspended his campaign in August, but has since backed Donald Trump for president.
There are more stars in his orbit when he speaks at a dinner in April, 1999 honoring environmentalist Yvon Chouinard, the founder of clothing company Patagonia.
Kennedy attends the event surrounded by Hutton, philanthropist Denise Rich, journalist Tom Brokaw, Crystal and actor Harrison Ford.
“God gave me a great speech, and afterward Harrison Ford introducing Yvon said he’d raise the money if I ran for senator,” Kennedy writes.
Ford has described himself as a “lifelong Democrat.”
Reps for Ford and Kennedy did not return requests for comment Wednesday.
