Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a celebrity magnate who has hobnobbed with everyone from Bill Clinton to Hollywood stars Larry David and Tom Hanks over the years. But he also had strong opinions about them that he confessed in his secret sex diaries, viewed by The Post.
Tom Hanks
In February 2000, Kennedy writes about reluctantly going to an event with the “Forrest Gump” star.
“I thought the guy was a chronic complainer when he seemed to have the best luck on Earth,” he writes.
Paula Zahn
A month earlier, Kennedy disparaged newscaster Paula Zahn, who interviewed him in January of that year.
“TV with Paula Zahn who has always been sweet to me, but turns out to be a right wing zealot or an innocent who has swallowed all the tripe that the GOP propaganda machine produces daily,” he writes on January 10.
Republican president-elect Donald Trump nominated Kennedy, a former environmental lawyer, to be the next federal health secretary earlier this month.
The Post has reached out to Kennedy’s representative for comment.
Rob Reiner, Bruce Willis and Michelle Pfeiffer
On a 1999 trip to Los Angeles, Kennedy had lunch with Rob Reiner and met actors Michelle Pfeiffer and Bruce Willis on the set of the film “The Story of Us” at Culver Studios.
“I was struck by how slim and strong Willis was — almost slight,” he writes on Feb. 24. “He looks buff and tough in the movies.” Reiner told him that he never discusses politics with Willis “who is a libertarian of sorts and was Republican,” Kennedy writes.
Larry David and friends
During his LA visit, Kennedy had a “great dinner” at Larry and then-wife Laurie David’s house, along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Billy Crystal. “I talked Daniel Stern — from ‘Home Alone’ — into being my tent mate next week [at an environmental event] in Baja.”
He finished up the trip by writing, “I stayed out of trouble which always dogs me in LA.”
Bill Clinton
Although he admits to having once been a fan of Bill Clinton, RFK Jr. was “disgusted” by the former president’s decision to pardon financier Marc Rich in 2001. Rich fled to Switzerland after he was indicted on federal wire fraud and racketeering charges.
“He has sold out all who believed in him for trinkets and whatever else he got for those pardons,” writes Kennedy of “highly flawed” Clinton on Jan. 29. “I think of all the good deeds he didn’t do — like Vieques.”
Kennedy chronicles his attempts to speak to high-ranking members of the Clinton administration over the continued bombing of Vieques, a nature preserve off the coast of Puerto Rico.
“I got a returned phone call from Donald Rumsfeld,” he writes on Jan. 16, 2001, referring to the former secretary of defense. “Hillary [Clinton] told me to call him. He was very jolly and told me a lot about his mother and how much he loves her.”
Alec Baldwin
Two days later, Kennedy writes that actor Alec Baldwin called “to talk about his divorce from Kim Basinger. He is very worried about their child.”
Baldwin once notoriously referred to his daughter, Ireland, as “a rude, thoughtless little pig” in a leaked phone message when she was 11 years old.
Benicio del Toro
In July 2001, Kennedy, along with civil rights activist Al Sharpton and others, was sentenced to 30 days in prison in Puerto Rico for his role in a Vieques protest.
During his time in prison, he continued to keep a diary on yellow legal pads, which The Post has seen. On July 12, he wrote about how he was actually enjoying his time behind bars.
“I really needed a break and this place is perfect,” he writes, adding that he was in the midst of reading Alan Schom’s 1997 biography of Napoleon Bonaparte, calling it “one of the most pessimistic books I’ve ever read.
“Schom damns him with his own words, and he is worse than Hitler,” Kennedy writes. “Hitler at least had a purpose outside himself. Napoleon was too involved in himself.”
A week later, Kennedy received a visit from Puerto Rican actor Benicio del Toro, who had recently starred in “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” an adaptation of journalist Hunter S. Thompson’s book. Kennedy writes that they spoke about Thompson, actor Leonardo DiCaprio, Vieques and “Dana the conman” — an apparent reference to Hollywood money manager Dana Giacchetto who was arrested in 2000 for defrauding clients of nearly $10 million. (Giacchetto, who died in 2016, was good friends with DiCaprio.)
“Benicio del Toro also came … to visit me,” he writes. “He came with his father, who is a well known criminal lawyer and friend of [Judge Hector] Lafitte’s.”
Lafitte had sentenced Kennedy and other protestors, including Dennis Rivera, the head of the powerful 1199/SEIU Health and Human Services Union, to their prison terms.
Kennedy family
Kennedy’s own family does not escape his barbs.
During a trip to Chicago in March 2001, where he visited his younger brother Christopher, Kennedy is critical of Edwin Schlossberg, who is married to his cousin Caroline Kennedy.
“He considers himself a financial genius,” Kennedy writes of Schlossberg, an artist, who he accuses of rewriting his aunt Jackie Kennedy Onassis’s will — calling it “a textbook example of how not to handle an estate. Not a penny was sheltered.”
He goes on to write that “John of course was indifferent to the whole thing,” seemingly referring to his cousin and Jackie’s son, John F. Kennedy Jr.
Kennedy admitted to being a slave to “wild impulses” and “powerful demons” when it comes to sex, according to revelations from three volumes of secret diaries seen by The Post. The diaries came to light in 2013, a year after the suicide of his second wife Mary Richardson Kennedy.
The thick, red journals were found in their home by Mary, who was distraught over their impending divorce and his serial philandering.
Although they chronicle Kennedy’s daily life with his children and marriage to Mary as well as his global travel on behalf of environmental groups, they also record the names of women — with numbers from 1 to 10 next to each entry.
The codes corresponded to sexual acts, with 10 meaning intercourse, Mary told a confidant.
