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 in a position to 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 command 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 house on Mandeville Canyon Street in Brentwood — bought in October 2021 for about $5.85 million and sits on practically half an acre, in accordance with actual property information. In-built 1937, the sprawling residence contains six loos.
Handler mentioned the acquisition was achieved privately by way of trusts, which means the identities of each purchaser and vendor had been shielded on the time. However as soon as inspections started, Handler claims the property’s issues rapidly surfaced.
“Once they opened up the home, they had been like, ‘This home is essentially the most poisonous setting,’” she mentioned. Contractors allegedly warned that Handler wouldn’t be capable of stay 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 instructed “all the things’s been redone.”
Among the many surprises was an outside storage construction on the property that inspectors instructed her was unlawful. “Now we’ve 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 Companies secretary — and his spouse, Hines, snapped up one other house on the identical road, dropping $6.6 million on the property.
Handler additionally mentioned that Hines left her a pleasant notice after the sale saying, “‘Tell us if there’s something we are able to do for you, Chelsea,’” Handler recalled. “I’m like, yeah, how a few 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 with out a basis isn’t the one property blunder she’s made. In a earlier transfer, Handler remodeled her five-bedroom Bel Air house 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 undoubtedly made “the home much less beneficial,” 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 bought her earlier house, a Bel Air oasis for $10.3 million in 2021 earlier than downsizing to the Brentwood “catastrophe.”
