Did Lib Tweets Play a Role in ex-RFK Wife's Suicide?

RFK ‘squeeze’ play - New love had wife’s old life

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s latest squeeze, actress Cheryl Hines, had been flaunting their relationship online in the weeks before his wife hanged herself.

And her posts show that she virtually hijacked the life that Mary Richardson Kennedy had lived.

It wasn’t just that she was dating Bobby Jr. and taking Mary’s place at his side at various Riverkeeper galas and events.

Hines also had struck up friendships with two of Mary’s best friends, Kerry Kennedy and Glenn Close, according to her tweets.

The “Curb Your Enthusiasm” blonde even tweeted about talking football with Mary and Bobby Jr.’s 11-year-old son, Aiden.

“Rabid, unhinged New England zealotry by 10-yr.-old Aidan Kennedy has nearly turned me into Pats fan,” Hines wrote Feb. 5.

The actress has since taken down her Twitter page “@realcherylhines.”

Her posts, however, were archived by the site Topsy.

She deleted the account around May 16 — the day Mary Kennedy hanged herself.

Throughout Hines’ Twitter tear, Mary was isolated in her Bedford mansion, drowning in sorrow, alcohol and debt.

American Express had filed a civil suit against Mary on April 16 for $32,000, according to documents obtained by The Post.

After her death at 52, the company pulled the suit.

Mary was embarrassed as her estranged husband carried on his high-profile romance with Hines, sources said.

“She faced losing her kids, and his relationship with Cheryl Hines was humiliating. At an event last month, he walked the red carpet with Cheryl as a couple and took the kids,” a source told The Post last week, referring to the Riverkeeper Annual Fisherman’s Ball in late April.

It wasn’t just public events, though, that Hines attended with Bobby Jr., 58.

Mary had been a close friend of “Fatal Attraction” star Glenn Close. They’d been so tight that Close sang at Mary’s funeral Saturday.

But it was the 46-year-old Hines, not Mary, who accompanied Bobby Jr. to Close’s April 15 birthday celebration.

Kerry Kennedy — the person who had first introduced Mary to her brother — posted a picture of Close, Bobby Jr. and Hines arm-in-arm on Twitter.

Hines tweeted that day: “I got to tell #GlenClose what an inspiration she has always been to me.”

Just the day before, Hines also tweeted about stopping at a local Westchester burger joint where Mary used to take her and Bobby’s kids.

“At Armonk’s Burgers & Shakes in Armonk, NY. So, sooooo good,” she wrote.

Kerry Kennedy, who would later write a eulogy for Mary, tweeted a picture of Hines, Bobby Jr. and singer Jackson Browne at a restaurant.

“Cheryl and Jackson Browne were amazing on stage and off,” she wrote April 28 after a California education fund-raiser that Hines attended with Bobby Jr.

Hines’ spokeswoman said only that her client’s “thoughts and prayers are with the family.’’

Kerry Kennedy didn’t return a request for comment.

SOURCE: New York Post