DC megastar Patricia Duff is getting married for the fifth time, even though she swore she would “never get engaged again”

Patricia Duff’s Great Bypass will take 5th place!

Page Six hears that the quadruple-married political fundraiser, donor and activist has gotten engaged again, even though she has announced she is quitting the wedding game.

The honorable Democrat — who was previously linked to billionaire financier Ron Perelman, Orion Pictures founder Mike Medavoy, DC lawyer Daniel Duff and her high school sweetheart — “has vowed to never get engaged again,” a suburban insider told Us.

“But she’s giving herself another chance,” they added.

And – as if to emphasize that she has dated a guy or two in her time – her new lover is her other boyfriend, Richard Cohen.

As Page Six reported at the time, Duff was in a long-term romantic relationship with Washington Post writer Richard Cohen from around 2013 to around 2017.

But now we learn that she is engaged to a very different Richard Cohen, this time the head of the real estate firm Capital Properties.

(Cohen No. 2 is the ex-husband of former CNN anchor Paula Zahn. In 2007, the former couple made headlines after he found a diary in which Zahn documented her affair, relying largely on natural facts. sensitive journalists for suggestive details. They separated following a lawsuit-filled rift.)

Asked to comment on her engagement and unexpected return to marital row, Duff – the founder of Common Good, which seeks to encourage citizens to take part in the democratic process – told us: “Let me just say: I never look back, I just look forward.” to spend our lives together – happily.”

Of the Cohen/Cohen coincidence, she said, “a funny coincidence about someone who remains a good friend.”

Duff worked on Gary Hart’s ill-fated presidential campaign, was a vocal supporter of Mike Bloomberg during his mayoral run, and had an acting career in the 1980s, appearing on “Moonlighting” and in films by Rob Lowe, Demi Moore and Jim Belushi “About last night.