March 6, 2026

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Kristin Cabot, HR exec in Coldplay cheating scandal, belongs to elite ‘Boston Brahmin’ family

Kristin Cabot, the HR executive involved in the Coldplay cheating controversy, is married to Andrew Cabot, a member of one of Boston ’s most prominent and affluent families. According to the New York Post, Andrew Cabot is a sixth-generation heir and the current owner of Privateer Rum, possessing significant inherited wealth.

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The Cabots: A Legacy of Boston Brahmin Wealth and Influence

The Cabot family is one of the one of the original “Boston Brahmin” clans that made its fortunes centuries ago. Today, the family controls a number of businesses, including the rum company that Andrew Cabot runs. Boston Brahmins (also known as the First Families of Boston) are members of the old, wealthy and socially elite families of Boston, Massachusetts. The term originally referred to a group of upper-class, Anglo-Saxon Protestant families who wielded significant cultural, social and political power in New England from the 18th to the early 20th century.

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From Carbon Black to Coldplay: The Storied Legacy of the Cabot Family

The Cabot family, whose New England roots stretch back ten generations, built its fortune in the soot trade formally known as “carbon black,” a key material in car tyre manufacturing according to the New York Post. Boston considers the Cabots so prominent that people often say, “the Cabots speak only to God.” A well-known local poem puts it this way: “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.” At a Coldplay concert in Foxborough, in the Greater Boston area last week, the ‘kiss cam’ captured a couple enjoying the music.

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