Exclusive: Multiple Women Claiming Romantic Relationships With RFK Jr. Threaten His Standing in Trump Orbit

At least three women are claiming to have had romantic relationships with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in just the last year, as he pursued a long-shot bid for the presidency, Mediaite has learned.

People close to Kennedy now fear the revelation of those alleged relationships could jeopardize his standing in Donald Trump’s orbit, particularly as the former president and 2024 Republican nominee fights to win over suburban women.

Two sources with direct knowledge of the three women’s accounts confirmed to Mediaite the existence of their claims. Mediaite also reviewed and obtained texts from a woman in which she detailed an alleged relationship with Kennedy this year.

The three women, who know Kennedy through Children’s Health Defense, an anti-vaccine group he chairs, have been sharing their alleged experiences in text messages with others in the wake of the scandal involving Kennedy and New York magazine correspondent Olivia Nuzzi.

A Kennedy spokesperson denied in a statement to Mediaite that he has had any romantic relationships outside of his marriage to actress Cheryl Hines: “This story is untrue. Mr Kennedy has had no romantic relationships with any woman other than his wife since their marriage.”

New York placed Nuzzi on leave after she disclosed a relationship with Kennedy that the magazine said violated its standards. Nuzzi said in a statement the relationship “turned personal” after she wrote a profile of the former presidential candidate late last year, but that it was never physical. A spokesperson for Kennedy said he only met Nuzzi once, for an interview that yielded what they described as a “hit piece.”

Kennedy ended his presidential campaign last month and endorsed Trump in the hopes of securing himself a role in a potential Trump administration. They reportedly discussed Kennedy serving as secretary of Health and Human Services, a powerful cabinet-level position.

One of the sources who spoke with Mediaite said the scandal swirling around Kennedy over the relationship with Nuzzi is seen internally as an issue the campaign wants to stay as far away from as possible, particularly given Trump’s own history of womanizing.

“Trump is concerned,” the person told Mediaite. He’s “concerned that there are more women, and that more affairs will come out. Right now, they are waiting to see if the news cycle will blow over, but it won’t, which has Trump reconsidering Bobby’s value.”

The source said Trump’s top advisers and donors see Kennedy as a problem for the campaign, particularly given the news of his alleged infidelity comes on the heels of unfounded rumors that the former president himself was having an affair with Laura Loomer, a conspiracy theorist who traveled with his campaign for several days last month. Loomer vehemently denied any affair with Trump and mocked those who suggested it.

One top Republican political operative who spoke with Mediaite on condition of anonymity said any alleged extramarital relationship could be an issue for Kennedy’s ambitions of serving in Trump’s cabinet.

“Affairs cannot get a security clearance at higher level government appointment jobs because they can be used as blackmail,” the operative said.

Greg Rinckey, a lawyer who specializes in national security clearances and previously served as a US Army intelligence officer and JAG, confirmed in an interview with Mediaite that affairs pose a serious threat to anyone seeking to serve in a presidential administration. They open applicants for security clearances up to potential blackmail or falling for honey pot traps. What’s more, if an applicant is not forthcoming about the number of affairs they’ve been involved in, they could run into issues during the polygraph examination of the clearance process.

Kennedy has long been dogged by allegations of infidelity. In diaries obtained by the New York Post after the 2012 death by suicide of his first wife, Mary Richardson, Kennedy reportedly kept a “ledger” tallying the dozens of women he slept with while married.

Some people close to Mary have criticized Kennedy for how he treated his late wife. Last year, in a scathing post to social media, Billy Baldwin said Mary “cried on my shoulder about Bobby numerous times” before her death. “If Bobby were half a man she would still be alive today,” Baldwin wrote. “It will all come out. His campaign will be over in weeks. If these walls could talk.”

In the diaries, Kennedy reportedly described himself as a victim of the women he said pursued him for sex, encounters he described as “muggings.” He allegedly wrote that his greatest flaw was “my lust demons,” and that he had to “avoid the company of women. You have not the strength to resist their charms.”

The idea that women aggressively pursue Kennedy, rather than the other way around, seems to mirror recent coverage in the New York Post on the scandal concerning Kennedy and Nuzzi. One recent story from the tabloid, citing an anonymous source close to the Kennedy camp, said Nuzzi was “obsessed” with him and “pursued him via text to the point where he had to repeatedly block her.”

One source who spoke with Mediaite, however, dismissed that reporting. “I don’t believe Nuzzi was the pursuer,” they said. “This would be completely contradictory to Bobby’s long standing pattern of serial cheating. There are a number of women in the ‘health freedom’ movement who thought of themselves as Bobby’s only one, and I’m quite sure they are angry and shocked to find out they weren’t. After talking to some of these women, I think what he does is just love bombs them. He makes them feel important, even tells them he loves them, and so they all feel special and wanted.”

In an interview with The New York Sun, several days after Mediaite first reached out to Kennedy for comment, he was asked about the news of his alleged relationship with Nuzzi. He declined to speak about that specific story, but joked to his host, “I have so many skeletons in my closet, if they could vote I’d be king of the world.”