Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is reportedly surprised after investing millions in a new home in Washington, only to discover that his wife, Cheryl Hines, has no interest in residing in the capital.

The pair has been in the spotlight since Kennedy reportedly had a ‘digital affair’ with journalist Olivia Nuzzi.

RFK Jr., 70, was eventually named Secretary of Health and Human Services after Donald Trump won the election and relocated to Washington.

Earlier this year, he bought a $4.34 million townhouse in the Georgetown neighborhood, hoping it would help them reconcile while he focused on his new campaign, ‘Making America Healthy Again.’

The property, described as ‘the height of luxurious Georgetown style,’ led some to think that Hines, 59, might see it as a way to move past Kennedy’s past infidelities, which he openly admitted to.

However, sources told The New York Post that Hines has ‘no plans’ to be ‘a full-time political wife.’ 

‘Bobby felt the house in Georgetown would mend their marital bridges,’ an anonymous Kennedy ally said, with hopes of ‘keeping their marriage alive and that the two could become Washington’s latest power couple.’

The son of the former presidential candidate even ‘swore to Cheryl there would be no more playing around with other women, and he restored Cheryl’s trust in him to keep it in his pants.’ 

However, Hines has no aspirations of becoming a ‘political wife’ and considers Washington a ‘deadbeat town,’ leading Kennedy to reportedly say he’s ‘been taken for a ride.’

The liberal actress also is ‘still not convinced Bobby should be working in the right-wing Republican Trump administration.’ 

It’s a change from what many believed was Hines’ insistence on buying property in Washington. 

Even before Kennedy was confirmed as head of HHS, when the longtime Democrat was running as an Independent for president, Cheryl had begun hunting for a real estate agent in the nation’s capital who handled upscale properties.

When this spectacular row home came on the market about three months ago, she said she wanted it.

‘She ordered Bobby to sign the papers for it,’ the insider revealed.

On the first floor of the grandiose colonial home is ‘a dignified reception foyer housing the classic staircase and adjacent is the open concept formal living and dining room,’ realtor Daniel Heider gushed in his description of the home.

It has a chef’s dream kitchen of royal proportions featuring furniture-grade glass inset cabinetry, granite countertops and commercial-grade appliances including an industrial strength range.

The great room, which usually serves as a multi-purpose communal room, has a wall of arched windows and twin arched glass doors that lead to the rear terrace, providing sanctuary away from its urban location.

The second level is dedicated to the master suite, spanning the home’s entire width, and overlooks 31st Street.

The master suite has a fireplace, one of six in the home, with the suite having a ‘fabulous’ bath steam shower and cast iron tub.

On the top level are two additional bedrooms, featuring private fireplaces and a shared bath.

In the lower level, there’s an additional bedroom suite, a wine cellar, a wet bar and a second laundry room.

The seller, according to public records, agreed to pay for one year of Kennedy’s parking on the lot of a nearby CVS, a block away from his new crib.

Kennedy purchased the home for the full listing price of $4.34million, which had dropped from the previous listing price of $4.695million, as the home had been on the market for almost three months.

According to DC real estate records, the three-story, semi-detached home with parking on the ‘verdant, tree-lined,’ but heavily-trafficked Georgetown street is considered the ’embodiment of luxury city living’.

The home, originally constructed at the turn of the 20th century, is just a block from the chic restaurants and trendy clothing shops on Wisconsin Avenue, and is just 15 minutes away from the White House.

Last year, Kennedy, who had cheated on his first two wives, Emily Black and Mary Richardson – who later committed suicide – got caught up in a bizarre sexting scandal with a gorgeous New York magazine political reporter, half Kennedy’s age, Olivia Nuzzi, 31.

The Nuzzi affair was ‘the last straw’ for the Curb Your Enthusiasm star, who seemingly ‘lost all trust in Bobby ever being monogamous’, had threatened divorce and had been spotted without her wedding ring in the wake of the scandal, according to insiders.

Nuzzi was last seen publicly in mid-October, just days before parting ways with the magazine, at a star-studded fashion event that honored ‘trailblazing women.’   

Insiders told the New York Post the pair had engaged in ‘sexting’ despite RFK Jr. being married and Nuzzi being engaged to Politico’s chief Washington correspondent Ryan Lizza, 50, at the time.

Nuzzi said that in early 2024, the nature of some communication between herself and a former reporting subject turned personal. 

‘Earlier this year, the nature of some communication between myself and a former reporting subject turned personal,’ Nuzzi said. 

‘During that time, I did not directly report on the subject nor use them as a source,’ she said.

‘The relationship was never physical but should have been disclosed to prevent the appearance of a conflict. I deeply regret not doing so immediately and apologize to those I’ve disappointed, especially my colleagues at New York.’

New York magazine acknowledged an inappropriate relationship in a statement about Nuzzi’s hiatus, deeming it ‘a violation of the magazine’s standards around conflicts of interest and disclosures’.

‘Had the magazine been aware of this relationship, she would not have continued to cover the presidential campaign,’ the statement read.

Kennedy has adamantly denied any sort of relationship with Nuzzi.

‘Mr. Kennedy only met Olivia Nuzzi once in his life for an interview she requested, which yielded a hit piece,’ his spokesman told CNN. A source added that the nature of the relationship was ’emotional and digital in nature, not physical’.

In her profile Nuzzi, described meeting the former presidential candidate at the $7 million California home he shares with his wife.

She painted a picture of RFK Jr. as an anti-establishment candidate, ‘turning the presidential election upside down’.

‘Fear — and denial — is what Kennedy seems to inspire among the staid Washington Establishment supporting the incumbent president and the gangland anti-Establishment Establishment supporting the former president,’ she wrote.

She touched on conflict in RFK Jr.’s marriage over his appearance on Steve Bannon’s show and those of other right-wing personalities.

‘Bannon was only the beginning. Poor Cheryl,’ Nuzzi wrote.

At the time the piece was published, RFK Jr. was in the election race as an independent candidate, but later dropped out, endorsed Trump and became HHS Secretary after he won.

Nuzzi’s last article, in which she described examining Trump’s ear following the Butler assassination attempt, was published by the magazine on September 9.

Since the exposure of the affair, Nuzzi and her ex-fiancé Lizza, have entered a bitter court battle, in which Nuzzi accused her former partner of threatened violence and attempted to blackmail her. 

Lizza has adamantly denied the allegations made against him. 

In a statement shared with DailyMail.com, Lizza claimed: ‘These allegations are disgraceful lies that Ms. Nuzzi has used to harass me for weeks in a coordinated defamation campaign. 

‘Her own catastrophic recklessness is solely responsible for the humiliation and ridicule she claims she has suffered. She is abusing protections meant for survivors of domestic violence to ruin my reputation in a last-ditch effort to salvage her own.’