Cheryl Hines is all smiles as she celebrates her birthday amid the sexting scandal surrounding husband RFK Jr.

Actress Cheryl Hines recently celebrated her 59th birthday – and her scandal-plagued husband was nowhere to be seen.

The Curb your enthusiasm The former student shared various posts on her Instagram stories from people wishing her a happy birthday. “Me and my girls,” she wrote alongside a picture of her daughter Catherine and stepdaughter Kyra as the three sat together at a restaurant, conspicuously without her husband Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Catherine also posted a photo on her Instagram story of her mother blowing out the candle on her dessert at the same restaurant. “Happy birthday to the best mom,” she wrote. “I really don't know how I got so lucky.”

Kenndey was not present at any of the birthday celebrations because he attended a campaign rally for Donald Trump in Las Vegas that same evening.

The two have been married since 2014, 10 years before his “personal relationship” with New York Magazine Reporter Olivia Nuzzi, which allegedly involved them sending each other sex messages.

On Thursday, September 19, the magazine released a statement explaining that the 31-year-old reporter would be placed on leave. “Recently, our Washington correspondent Olivia Nuzzi acknowledged to the magazine's editors that while covering the 2024 election, she had entered into a personal relationship with a former interviewee relevant to the 2024 election. This is a violation of the magazine's standards regarding conflicts of interest and disclosures,” the statement said.

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“Had the magazine been aware of this relationship, she would not have continued to cover the presidential campaign. An internal review of her published work has found no inaccuracies or evidence of bias. She is currently on leave from the magazine, and the magazine is conducting a more thorough third-party review. We regret this breach of trust from our readers.”

An editor at the publication announced in a staff memo a day later that it would hire an “independent third party” to review Nuzzi’s 2024 articles and determine whether there was anything about the reporter’s “relationship” with the former presidential candidate that the publication needed to disclose or correct.

Nuzzi's partner Ryan Lizza, a reporter at Politicoreleased a statement referring to Nuzzi as his “ex-fiancée,” suggesting that the couple had split. It is not clear when the couple split.

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“Because of my connection to this story through my ex-fiancée, my editors and I have agreed that I will not participate in any coverage of Kennedy in Playbook or elsewhere at POLITICO,” Lizza said.

After New York MagazineAfter the announcement of “The 40 Years of Sex,” Nuzzi released a statement denying that the relationship with RFK Jr. was physical.

“Earlier this year, communications between me and a former reporting individual became personal in nature,” she said. “During that time, I did not report directly on the individual or use him or her as a source.”

She added: “The relationship was never physical, but it should have been disclosed to avoid the appearance of a conflict. I deeply regret not doing so immediately and apologize to those I have disappointed, especially my colleagues in New York.”

A spokesman for Kennedy said The New York Times He said he had met Nuzzi “once in his life for an interview she requested, which led to a defamatory article.”