The actress and Secretary of Health and Human Services wed in 2014.

Cheryl Hines denies that RFK Jr.’s daughter moved in with her when Mary Richardson was alive

The actress and Secretary of Health and Human Services wed in 2014.

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Cheryl Hines in 2025; Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Mary Richardson Kennedy in 2009. Credit:

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- Cheryl Hines is speaking out after a book claimed RFK Jr.'s daughter moved in with the actress when Mary Richardson was still alive.

- “Kyra Kennedy moved in with Cheryl after Mary passed. Not when she was alive," a rep for Hines told PEOPLE and **.

- Mary Richardson died in 2012. Hines and RFK Jr. wed in 2014.

Cheryl Hines is pushing back on claims made in a book about her husband, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Isabel Vincent's biography, *RFK Jr.: The Fall and Rise** *is packed with anecdotes about the Secretary of Health and Human Services' professional and personal lives, examining his diaries and interviewing sources. The book details his relationship with Hines, who he married in 2014, two years after his ex-wife Mary Richardson died in May 2012.

The book claims that RFK Jr. and Mary's daughter, Kyra, moved to Los Angeles to live with Hines while Mary was still alive. Vincent quoted a friend saying that Mary was “completely shattered" when Kyra moved west to live with Hines in the fall of 2011.**

Cheryl Hines and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Los Angeles in 2024.

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Per Hines' own memoir, *Unscripted*,  she writes that she "developed a special friendship with Bobby’s sixteen-­year-­old daughter Kyra," who was "struggling in school. "Bobby asked if I would consider allowing her to live at my house while she attended school in Los Angeles. I loved Kyra and was happy to take her in.”

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The *Curb Your Enthusiasm *star denies that Kyra had moved in with her when Mary was still alive. A representative for Hines told PEOPLE: “Kyra Kennedy moved in with Cheryl after Mary passed. Not when she was alive. She did not move into Cheryl's house when Mary was still alive. The way it's been painted is incorrect.”

The rep also told ** that Kyra didn't move into Hines' house when Mary was still alive.**

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Mary and RFK Jr. wed in 1994 and welcomed four children throughout their marriage: Conor, Kyra, Aidan, and William "Finn." Their marriage was allegedly tarnished by affairs and bullying. A source claimed in Vincent's book that RFK "definitely gaslit [Mary] and told her she was crazy and that her accusations about other women were fantasies."

RFK Jr. filed for divorce in May 2010. Mary died two years later by suicide when the divorce was still pending.

'RFK, Jr.: The Fall and Rise' by Isabel Vincent.

*RFK Jr.: The Rise and Fall* is available for purchase wherever books are sold.

*If you or someone you know is considering suicide, please contact the **National Suicide Prevention Lifeline** at 1-800-273-TALK (8255).*

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