Chelsea Handler has unloaded on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his spouse, actress Cheryl Hines, claiming the Brentwood mansion she purchased from them for $5.9 million in 2021 was a literal “poisonous” dump that she nonetheless hasn’t been capable of transfer into.
The comic revealed the messy saga throughout a March 5 episode of her podcast, Expensive Chelsea.
“I purchased RFK Jr.’s home in Los Angeles 5 years in the past,” Handler mentioned. “I nonetheless haven’t lived on this home, that’s how f–ed up this home was.”
“The concept that this man is in control of the well being of our nation when he didn’t also have a correct basis at his home,” she continued.
The property — a 5-bedroom, 5,474-square-foot dwelling on Mandeville Canyon Street in Brentwood — offered in October 2021 for about $5.85 million and sits on almost half an acre, in response to actual property data. Inbuilt 1937, the sprawling residence consists of six bogs.
Handler mentioned the acquisition was performed privately via trusts, which means the identities of each purchaser and vendor have been shielded on the time. However as soon as inspections started, Handler claims the property’s issues shortly surfaced.
“Once they opened up the home, they have been like, ‘This home is essentially the most poisonous surroundings,’” she mentioned. Contractors allegedly warned that Handler wouldn’t be capable of dwell in the home for years. “I’m not exaggerating any of this,” she mentioned.
Handler mentioned the issues weren’t found till the ultimate stretch of inspections — regardless of assurances the house had already been renovated. “Within the final week of inspection, they got here in,” she mentioned, including she had beforehand been advised “every thing’s been redone.”
Among the many surprises was an outside storage construction on the property that inspectors advised her was unlawful. “Now we’ve got to take away his unlawful bull—t from my property,” she added, referring to the RFK Jr.-era additions.
Three months earlier, Kennedy — now serving as President Donald Trump’s Well being and Human Providers secretary — and his spouse, Hines, snapped up one other dwelling on the identical avenue, dropping $6.6 million on the property.
Handler additionally mentioned that Hines left her a pleasant be aware after the sale saying, “‘Tell us if there’s something we will do for you, Chelsea,’” Handler recalled. “I’m like, yeah, how a couple of f–ing basis.”
“Anyway, I’m not offended about it or something,” she quipped. “I’m completely over it.”
The comic admitted that purchasing a home and not using a basis isn’t the one property blunder she’s made. In a earlier transfer, Handler remodeled her five-bedroom Bel Air dwelling right into a two-bedroom — all in an effort to maintain visiting household from overstaying their welcome.
The plan labored for privateness, however it tanked the property’s worth.
It positively made “the home much less priceless,” Handler confessed.
And when it got here time to promote? She needed to undo the entire thing — shelling out to transform the place again to its authentic five-bedroom format.
“I needed to flip the 2 bedrooms again into 5 bedrooms,” she mentioned.
Handler offered her earlier dwelling, a Bel Air oasis for $10.3 million in 2021 earlier than downsizing to the Brentwood “catastrophe.”
The Submit has contacted RFK Jr for remark.
