Washington, D.C. – In response to new, alarming reporting linking Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, MoveOn Political Action slammed RFK Jr.’s troubling pattern toward mistreating and disrespecting women. 

Last week, an explosive article from Vanity Fair detailed how RFK Jr. sexually assaulted his children’s former babysitter, allegations he didn’t deny (and just apologized for over text message), saying “I wasn’t a church boy.” This morning as reported in The Boston Globe, he even implied there might be more women who come forward with sexual assault and harrassment claims.

During his last marriage, RFK Jr. even kept a sex diary which detailed dozens of his affairs with various women—whom he graded on a number system. 

“Another day, another absolutely disqualifying story about RFK Jr. using his influence to disrespect and mistreat women. It’s clear, yet again, that RFK Jr. doesn’t belong anywhere near the Oval Office,” said MoveOn Political Action spokesperson Britt Jacovich.

Background

This isn’t the first time that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been accused of sexual harassment and inappropriate behavior toward women. In his 2015 book “RFK Jr.: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Dark Side of the Dream,” Jerry Oppenheimer reported that multiple women said RFK Jr. had touched them inappropriately or exposed himself to them—repeatedly fondling women under dinner tables and exposing himself to his wife and her friends around their house.

RFK Jr. also staunchly defended three of his relatives who were accused of rape and violence against women or girls:

• In 1997, RFK Jr. publicly defended his brother Michael L. Kennedy, who had an ongoing sexual relationship with a girl who was his children’s babysitter, reportedly beginning when she was 14.
• In 1991, RFK Jr. publicly defended his cousin William Kennedy Smith, who was charged with raping a woman at the family’s compound in Florida. RFK Jr. said his cousin’s accuser had some “sad and serious emotional problems.”
• Throughout the 2000s, RFK Jr. publicly defended his cousin Michael Skakel, who was charged with and later convicted of murdering Martha Moxley when both Skakel and Moxley were 15 years old. Skakel admitted to masturbating outside of Moxley’s bedroom window on the night of her murder. In 2016, RFK Jr. published a book that accused two Black men of the crime, allegations that were rejected by a court and have been scrutinized in the media.