Robert F. Kennedy Jr. once kept a list of some 43 rumored lovers on his cell phone.
The Kennedy heir, now 70, listed the contact details of dozens of women on an alphabetical list under the letter “G,” which his late second wife believed to stand for “goomar,” Italian slang for mistress, The Washington Post revealed in 2014.
One of the women on the list was “Crazy Love” actress Cheryl Hines, who married Kennedy that year at the Kennedy family's vacation home in Hyannis Port.
Hines, 59, has not commented on reports earlier this year that her husband was sexting with New York magazine journalist Olivia Nuzzi, but a source insisted to Page Six that the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” star is “not a weak person.”
“I can't imagine she's putting up with something like this. She's strong-willed. She's not just a housewife at home. She's financially independent and successful,” the source said.
In 2014, Kennedy also had contact information for Chelsea Chapman Kirwan, who was linked to the future White House candidate during her divorce from famed cosmetic surgeon Laurence Kirwan.
There were so many women on the list, some with the same name, that it was necessary to distinguish them by occupation or place of residence.
At the time, Kennedy seemed to have women in almost every city: at least five in Toronto, one in Paris, as well as Palm Beach and Pensacola, Florida, Alaska, Aspen, Colorado, Miami, Montreal and Cleveland.
One of the women's name was annotated after the word “plane,” another's name was annotated after the word “farm,” and yet another's name was annotated after the word “teacher.”
Yet another was mysteriously called “Z.”
Mr Kennedy's second wife, Mary Richardson, who committed suicide in 2012, had previously told friends that her unfaithful husband also used false names to hide his identity as he travelled the world.
His preferred pen name, she claimed, was “Robert Strong.”
When the revelations came to light in 2014, Kennedy, through a spokesman, declined to comment.
Kennedy's team did not immediately respond Saturday to a request for comment from The Washington Post about the mistress list.
The environmental lawyer also documented his extramarital affairs in a series of diaries seen by The Washington Post after Mary's tragic death. The 398-page diaries contain codes for a range of sexual acts.
In 2001, Kennedy wrote about his struggles with “demons of lust.” He later said the diary was “a tool of self-analysis to help me cope with the mental anguish I was going through at the time.”
A Washington Post reporter who asked Kennedy about the diary on Friday initially responded with six seconds of stunned silence, before saying, “I don't believe you have my diary or journal from 2001,” to which Kennedy then said, “I can't comment on that. I don't have the diary from 2001.”
Kennedy's love life was in the spotlight again this week after New York magazine reported that star political reporter Nuzzi, 31, is on leave after it was revealed she had a personal relationship with someone connected to the 2024 presidential election.
The person in question was later revealed to be Kennedy, who Nuzzi profiled in the magazine in November 2023.
Sources say the two were allegedly sexting at some point this year.
In his statement about the relationship, Nuzzi did not name Kennedy and denied that they ever had a physical relationship.
A spokesman for Kennedy, who last month suspended his presidential campaign to endorse Donald Trump, insisted he met the author only once.
“The only time Mr. Kennedy ever met Olivia Nuzzi in his life was for an interview at her request, which spawned the smear campaign,” a spokesman for Mr. Kennedy previously told The Washington Post.
