Robert F. Kennedy Jr. once complained in secret diaries about his flailing sex life with his second wife and his struggles with “lust demons” — griping that no matter how much he had in life, he was always hunting for “more.”
The Kennedy scion’s bombshell private musings about his relationship with Mary Richardson Kennedy, who killed herself in 2012 amid their looming divorce, are among a trove of inside details about their marriage that are laid bare in a new biography by ace New York Post investigative reporter Isabel Vincent titled “RFK, Jr.: The Fall and Rise.”
Kennedy’s diary entries, which are said to have been written in 2001, were taken and hidden by Richardson as “insurance” in the final months of her life — just as the couple’s divorce proceedings were turning sour, the tome said.
“I’ve been given everything that any person could wish for: A beautiful wife and kids and loving family, wealth, education and good health and job I love. And yet I’m always on the lookout for something I can’t have to wreck it all,” wrote Kennedy — now Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Trump — in one entry.
“No matter how much I have, I want more!” he said, underlining the word “more” several times.
At one point, Kennedy — a notorious cheater throughout the troubled couple’s 18-year marriage — also touched on their lackluster sex life.
“Our bed is an unfriendly place,” Kennedy wrote of the mother of four of his six kids.
“She hates it when I go to bed with her, and will never have sex at night. She rarely speaks to me of anything but scheduling.”
The diary entries were obtained by Vincent a year after Richardson, who battled depression and was an alcoholic, took her own life in May 2012.
In the forthcoming biography, Vincent writes that those close to Richardson blamed her depression, in part, on her husband’s philandering.
“He definitely gaslit her and told her that she was crazy and that her accusations about other women were fantasies,” said a source who was close to Richardson.
“She was innocent and naive, but she drank, which was classic in the sense of being in pain a lot of the time.”
It wasn’t clear when Richardson became aware that her husband, whom she tied the knot with in 1994, started cheating, according to the biography.
Still, Richardson was adamant about being a good wife, a source recalled.
“She was just 200% invested in being his wife and living the Kennedy lifestyle,” said an insider who treated Richardson for depression.
Another source added, “The notion that she would stop being a Kennedy was scary to her.”
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After Kennedy eventually told his wife on Mother’s Day 2010 that he wanted to file for divorce, she was arrested twice for drunken driving.
In the days that followed, Richardson pored over her husband’s diaries in a desperate attempt to reassure herself she’d been married to a “chronic philanderer” for nearly two decades, the book said.
Ultimately, Richardson hanged herself at the couple’s estate in tony Bedford, Westchester County.
The couple’s divorce hadn’t yet been finalized when she was found dead amid arguments about the custody of their kids and finances.
After Richardson’s death, Kennedy went on to marry TV’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm” actress Cheryl Hines in 2014.
“RFK, Jr.: The Fall and Rise” goes on sale April 14.
If you or someone you know is affected by any of the issues raised in this story, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1.800.799.SAFE (7233) or text START to 88788.
