Kristin Cabot, the Astronomer HR executive at the centre of the viral Coldplay kiss cam scandal, is actually married into one of the wealthiest families in Boston.<\/p>\n
Kristin is reportedly married to Privateer Rum owner Andrew Cabot. He touts his family lineage as the sixth-generation owner of the longstanding rum brand, which was founded by the \u201coriginal\u201d Andrew Cabot.<\/p>\n
According to a New York Times profile of the family, the Cabots have transcended generations, and were estimated at $200 million in 1972. That\u2019s $15.4 billion in 2025.<\/p>\n
Also Read<\/strong> | Did you know? Astronomer HR Kristin Cabot is married to rum CEO Andrew Cabot<\/a>About the Cabots<\/p>\n According to the New York Post, the Cabot family is one of the original \u201cBoston Brahmin\u201d clans that controlled New England for centuries. The family has been in New England for 10 generations.<\/p>\n Cabots are so steeped in old-money prestige<\/a> and WASP tradition that even the storied Irish-Catholic Kennedy dynasty feels like an afterthought.<\/p>\n The family made its fortune in soot, known colloquially in industry circles as \u201ccarbon black,\u201d a key ingredient in car tires. However, family members have been behind a slew of businesses across New England, including the rum company.<\/p>\n Also Read<\/strong> | Coldplay kiss cam scandal may cost Andy Byron THIS amount: Divorce lawyer<\/a><\/p>\n The family patriarch, Samuel Cabot, kick-started the family\u2019s fortune by marrying Eliza Perkins, the daughter of a wealthy merchant trader.<\/p>\n Boston locals know the Cabot family well and even have a poem about them that says the \u201cCabots speak only to God.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAnd 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,\u201d reads the local poem.<\/p>\n The Cabots of yesteryear were seafarers and merchants who partook in the slave and opium trade in the early 19th century.<\/p>\n According to the profile, 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.<\/p>\n Heir Francis Cabot, of New York, once said of his family that over the years they\u2019ve been \u201cinterested in two things \u2014 one is marrying rich women and the other is group singing.\u201d<\/p>\n Also Read<\/strong> | Coldplay\u2019s Chris Martin gives concertgoers a cheeky warning: \u2018We\u2019d like to\u2026\u2019<\/a>$2.2 million house in New Hampshire<\/p>\n The Post, citing property records, said that the couple, Kristin and Andrew, bought a $2.2 million house on the New Hampshire coast earlier this year.<\/p>\n Although it is not clear when they got married, Kristin’s previous divorce was finalised in 2022. This is at least their second marriage each.<\/p>\n What is the Coldplay kiss cam scandal?<\/p>\n A Jumbotron camera at a Coldplay concert in Boston, Massachusetts, captured Kristin Cabot<\/a> in the embrace of the Astronomer CEO, Andy Byron<\/a>. Both Byron and Cabot are married.<\/p>\n They went viral for trying to dodge the \u201ckiss cam,\u201d which prompted Coldplay singer Chris Martin to joke, \u201cEither they\u2019re having an affair or they\u2019re just very shy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kristin Cabot, the Astronomer HR executive at the centre of the viral Coldplay kiss cam scandal, is actually…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":80295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[55123,55127,55124,49910,55126,171,55128,49363,55125,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-80294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-andrew-byron","9":"tag-andrew-cabot","10":"tag-boston-brahmin","11":"tag-coldplay-concert","12":"tag-coldplay-kiss-cam-scandal","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-kiss-cam-scandal","15":"tag-kristin-cabot","16":"tag-privateer-rum","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114890590355888165","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}