Cheryl Hines beams on her birthday after husband RFK Jr.’s sex scandal with junior journalist Olivia Nuzzi

Cheryl Hines beamed as she celebrated her birthday following the revelations about her husband RFK Jr.’s sex scandal with young journalist Olivia Nuzzi.

Hines, 59, shared special moments from the event on her Instagram page on Saturday evening, posing for a photo with her daughter Catherine Young, 20, and stepdaughter Kyra LeMoyne Kennedy, 29.

The happy moment came just days after reports emerged of her husband’s alleged affair with Nuzzi, 31, a reporter for New York Magazine.

The actress, wearing a white lace turtleneck and black pants, captioned the photo with Catherine and Kyra: “Me and my girls,” but her husband was nowhere to be seen.

In another photo posted on Catherine’s profile, Hines can be seen smiling broadly as she holds her hands to her face and blows out the candles on her birthday cake.

On Friday night, the Curb Your Enthusiasm star was beaming as she hit the streets of Milan, Italy, without her wedding ring after a Gucci Fashion Week party.

Despite the media attention on her marriage, Hines appeared to be in good spirits as she waved to fans; she wore a stylish leather jacket, white shirt and blue suit trousers.

Sensational photos show she has lost her large diamond wedding ring, which she was photographed wearing less than a week earlier on Sunday at the Emmy Awards.

Greeting fans in Italy, Hines dangled a bunch of keys on her finger, and in the blink of an eye, a smaller ring could be spotted on the ring finger of her left hand.

It is unclear whether it was a keychain or a smaller, more subtle ring than the one she showed off during her last public appearance on Sunday.

Amid the scandal, Hines has remained silent about the status of her 10-year marriage to Kennedy, 70.

When news broke of the politician’s alleged affair with Nuzzi, which began when she visited his $7 million California home to write a story, the journalist was forced out of her job.

Nuzzi, a Washington correspondent, admitted in a statement to DailyMail.com that “some communications between me and a former subject of the report became personal.”

She also claimed their relationship was never physical.

Her editors confirmed that the other page was a “former topic relevant to the 2024 campaign.” Status said the affair involved the former presidential candidate, who is married to Hines.

RFK Jr. says he only met with the political journalist once, when she was researching his article last year.

“Mr. Kennedy met with Olivia Nuzzi only once in his life for an interview she requested, which has produced much criticism,” his spokesman told CNN. The source added that the nature of the relationship was “emotional and digital, not physical.”

However, sources close to the couple told the New York Post that “sexting” was occurring between them, even though RFK Jr. was married and Nuzzi was engaged at the time.

“Earlier this year, a certain communication between me and a former subject of the report took on a personal nature,” Nuzzi said.

At that time I did not report directly on this topic and did not use their knowledge as a source.

“The relationship was never physical, but it should have been disclosed to prevent any appearance of conflict. I deeply regret not doing so immediately and apologize to those I have let down, especially my colleagues in New York,” she said.

New York magazine, in a statement about Nuzzi’s hiatus, acknowledged the inappropriate relationship, calling it a “violation of the magazine’s standards on conflicts of interest and disclosure.”

“Had the magazine known about this relationship, she would not have continued to cover the presidential campaign,” the statement read. “An internal review of her published work found no inaccuracies or evidence of bias.

“He is currently on leave from the magazine while the magazine conducts a more thorough, independent review. We regret this breach of trust with our readers.”

Since 2022, Nuzzi has been engaged to Ryan Lizza, 50, Politico’s chief Washington correspondent.

However, the couple called off their wedding, with the New York Post reporting that it happened within the past few weeks.

Lizza, a co-author of the Politico Playbook, released a brief statement in the Friday afternoon edition of the newsletter confirming that he would no longer be writing about the former independent presidential candidate.

The newspaper’s 50-year-old chief Washington correspondent also confirmed that he had broken off his engagement to Nuzzi.

“Because I am connected to this story through my ex-fiancée, my editors and I have agreed that I will not engage in any Kennedy-related reporting at Playbook or anywhere else at POLITICO,” Lizza wrote.

Nuzzi is known to have met the father-of-six, RFK, on ​​a walking tour last year for an article she wrote for New York magazine.

A source close to Nuzzi told Status that the relationship only began in the new year, after the profile was posted in November 2023.

People close to the case say the woman did not disclose the affair of her own accord and that New York magazine only recently learned of it.

Her co-star Larry David once described her as “the only person in Hollywood who doesn’t have a single enemy.” The star’s marriage to Kennedy reportedly came at a heavy personal cost over the years.

Her friends reportedly warned the actress about Kennedy’s past as a serial womanizer, while others questioned her silence in the face of her husband’s anti-vaccine rhetoric during the pandemic.

It was David who introduced his Curb Your Enthusiasm co-star to Kennedy in 2006 at a fundraiser for Waterkeeper Alliance, the nonprofit environmental organization Kennedy co-founded, during a ski weekend in Banff, Canada.

Both Hines and Kennedy were married to other people when they met. Hines was married to Paul Young, founder of the management firm Principato-Young, with whom she has one daughter, Catherine.

Kennedy was previously married to his second wife, Mary Richardson Kennedy. He filed for divorce from Mary in 2010, but she committed suicide in 2012 before the proceedings were finalized.

By then, Hines and Kennedy had reconnected. They went public with their relationship in October 2011 and married three years later.