HR exec in Coldplay cheating scandal married into one of the oldest, wealthiest families in Boston: ‘The Cabots speak only to God'
Kristin Cabot, who is on leave from her job at Astronomer following the embarrassing caught-on-Jumbotron incident last week, appears to be married to Privateer Rum owner Andrew Cabot, according to social media posts.
The allegedly jilted husband touts his family lineage as the sixth-generation owner of the longstanding rum brand, founded by the 'original' Andrew Cabot.
The Cabot fortune has transcended generations, and was estimated at $200 million in a 1972 New York Times profile of the family. That's $15.4 billion in 2025.
It's not clear when Kristin and Andrew got married, but it's at least the second marriage for both.
Her previous divorce was finalized in 2022.
Kristin Cabot's now-deleted LinkedIn account showed that she has served as an 'advisory board member' at Privateer Rum since September 2020.
Property records show that they bought a $2.2 million house on the New Hampshire coast earlier this year.
The Cabot family is one of the original 'Boston Brahmin' clans that controlled New England for centuries — a club so old, WASPy and distinguished that the Irish-Catholic Kennedys are left out in the cold.
The family made its fortune in soot, known colloquially in industry circles as 'carbon black,' a key ingredient in car tires, and dates back to New England for 10 generations.
But, family members have been behind a slew of businesses across New England — including the rum company.
The family patriarch, Samuel Cabot, kick-started the family's fortune by marrying Eliza Perkins, the daughter of wealthy merchant trader.
The family is so well known in Boston it's said locally that the 'Cabots speak only to God.'
As a local poem goes, ' And this is good old Boston/ The home of the bean and the cod/ Where the Lowells talk only to Cabots/ And the Cabots talk only to God.'
The Cabots of yesteryear were seafarers and merchants who partook in the slave and opium trade in the early 19th century.
They shared portions of their largesse over the years with New England educational institutions like Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Norwich University and the Perkins School for the blind, according to the profile.
Heir Francis Cabot, of New York, once said of his family that over the years they've been 'interested in two things — one is marrying rich women and the other is group singing.'
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