Gossip

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. romanced more than three dozen women behind his wife’s back in a single year, according to a diary obtained by the New York Post. Kennedy called his “lust demons” his “greatest defect” in the 2001 diary, detailing extramarital liaisons with 37 women that year, with numerical codes for the type of sexual act they had engaged in. He wrote “Victory” on every day he resisted temptation. “I’m like Adam and live in Eden, and I can have everything but the fruit,” he wrote. “But the fruit is all I want.” The environmental activist also blasted various fellow Democrats, saying that the Revs. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson “give me the creeps,’’ and that then--brother-in-law Andrew Cuomo “lacks humanity.’’ Kennedy, whose wife Mary Richardson Kennedy committed suicide last year, said in an email to the Post that the diary had been “stolen,’’ and that it had “served as a tool for self-examination and for dealing with my spiritual struggles at the time.’’ He said he has “nothing but respect’’ for Sharpton, Jackson, and New York Gov. Cuomo.

Miley Cyrus’s controversial “twerking” performance at the MTV Video Music Awards has cost her a spot on the cover of Vogue, says the Daily Mail (U.K.). The singer, 20, had already been photographed for the coveted cover of Vogue’s December issue, which celebrities see as a big boost to their images. But her racy, tongue--swiveling show at the VMAs met the disapproval of Anna Wintour, the magazine’s famously frosty editor. “Anna found the whole thing distasteful,” a source told the Mail. “She decided, based on Miley’s performance, to take the cover in a different direction.’’

Dennis Rodman accidentally confirmed the name of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s baby daughter this week, after returning from a second visit to North Korea. The eccentric former basketball star told reporters he had “held their baby Ju Ae,” calling Kim a “good dad.” The secretive North Korean regime has never even acknowledged that Kim had a child. Rodman said that he had spent a “relaxing time by the sea” with the dictator, his wife, and their child, describing them as “a beautiful family.’’

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