New York magazine reporter Olivia Nuzzi has repeatedly called out Robert F. Kennedy Jr. since the apparent beginning of her romantic relationship with him, while her cavalier attacks on people who accuse reporters of cheating with their sources have backfired on her.
The 31-year-old star political reporter was placed on administrative leave after admitting to a non-physical “personal relationship” with a former target of the 2024 campaign while covering the presidential election. The magazine said: Late Thursday.
Sources, who neither Nuzzi nor the magazine would reveal the identity of the person, told The Washington Post that the Washington correspondent had been sexting Kennedy, who was engaged and married.
Their alleged affair began after Nuzzi wrote a profile of Kennedy that was published in November 2023. STATUS News reportedCite your sources.
A separate source told the outlet that the relationship is believed to have begun around the new year.
Since then, Nuzzi has mentioned Kennedy's name in at least four articles published under her name in New York magazine.
His name is her January story The article was titled “Trump haters turn into Trump supporters.”
Nuzzi also April articles Arizona's Senate Election and Back Again May Clip The focus was on the Trump campaign.
More recently, Nuzzi noted Kennedy's support for Trump. Article published on September 9th.
In it, she noted that the Republican candidate is now “speaking about topics of great concern to Kennedy's diverse base: food quality, public health and everlasting chemicals.”
All of Nuzzi's references to Kennedy in his article appear to be made in the context of reporting facts such as poll numbers, rather than expressing a personal opinion about the former independent presidential candidate.
She also I tweeted it multiple times She wrote a lot about Kennedy after the profile was published, including several posts about the possibility that Kennedy may have had Secret Service protection while he was still a candidate.
Nuzzi, who has covered the 2024 presidential election extensively and written some of the magazine's more splashy profile pieces, stresses that he has never used Kennedy as a source in any of his stories, sources told STATUS.
She also claimed in her statement that the relationship in question never got physical.
Still, a tweet she posted in 2015 has resurfaced, in which Nuzzi shared a link to a New York magazine article about the film's portrayal of female reporters as “slutty sluts.”
“Why does Hollywood think female reporters will sleep with their sources?” Nuzzi I wrote to X In a post from years ago, she added: “I actually don't want to know why you all think that, which is the whole point of this article.”
After the scandal broke, one follower wrote: “This never gets old,” while another sarcastically asked: “Update?”
Meanwhile, the magazine said it had investigated Nuzzi's interviews for the publication after the relationship came to light and found no “evidence of inaccuracies or bias.”
“If the magazine had known about this relationship, she would not have continued covering the presidential campaign,” they said in a statement.
“She is now on leave from the magazine while we conduct a more thorough, independent investigation. We regret having violated our readers' trust.”
Kennedy has been married to Curb Your Enthusiasm actress Cheryl Hines since 2014.
Meanwhile, Nuzzi She is engaged to Politico reporter and collaborator Ryan Lizza. They were set to get engaged in 2022, but the couple recently split, a source told The Post.
