Chelsea Handler has unloaded on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his wife, actress Cheryl Hines, claiming the Brentwood mansion she bought from them for $5.9 million in 2021 was a literal “toxic” dump that she still hasn’t been able to move into.
The comedian revealed the messy saga during a March 5 episode of her podcast, Dear Chelsea.
“I bought RFK Jr.’s house in Los Angeles five years ago,” Handler said. “I still have not lived in this house, that’s how f–ed up this house was.”
“The idea that this guy is in charge of the health of our country when he didn’t even have a proper foundation at his house,” she continued.
The property — a 5-bedroom, 5,474-square-foot home on Mandeville Canyon Road in Brentwood — sold in October 2021 for about $5.85 million and sits on nearly half an acre, according to real estate records. Built in 1937, the sprawling residence includes six bathrooms.
Handler said the purchase was done privately through trusts, meaning the identities of both buyer and seller were shielded at the time. But once inspections began, Handler claims the property’s problems quickly surfaced.
“When they opened up the house, they were like, ‘This house is the most toxic environment,’” she said. Contractors allegedly warned that Handler wouldn’t be able to live in the house for years. “I’m not exaggerating any of this,” she said.
Handler said the problems weren’t discovered until the final stretch of inspections — despite assurances the home had already been renovated. “In the last week of inspection, they came in,” she said, adding she had previously been told “everything’s been redone.”
Among the surprises was an outdoor storage structure on the property that inspectors told her was illegal. “Now we have to remove his illegal 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 Health and Human Services secretary — and his wife, Hines, snapped up another home on the same street, dropping $6.6 million on the property.
Handler also said that Hines left her a friendly note after the sale saying, “‘Let us know if there’s anything we can do for you, Chelsea,’” Handler recalled. “I’m like, yeah, how about a f–ing foundation.”
“Anyway, I’m not angry about it or anything,” she quipped. “I’m totally over it.”
The comedian admitted that buying a house without a foundation isn’t the only property blunder she’s made. In a previous move, Handler transformed her five-bedroom Bel Air home into a two-bedroom — all in an effort to keep visiting family from overstaying their welcome.
The plan worked for privacy, but it tanked the property’s value.
It definitely made “the house less valuable,” Handler confessed.
And when it came time to sell? She had to undo the whole thing — shelling out to convert the place back to its original five-bedroom layout.
“I had to turn the two bedrooms back into five bedrooms,” she said.
Handler sold her previous home, a Bel Air oasis for $10.3 million in 2021 before downsizing to the Brentwood “disaster.”
