RFK Jr.’s Possible Warning Sign That His ‘Digital’ Affair With Olivia Nuzzi Was Going Public
The fallout from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Olivia Nuzzi’s emotional affair is still ongoing as the players involved sort through the mess. RJF Jr. is married to actress Cheryl Hines and Nuzzi was engaged to Politico reporter Ryan Lizza — and that’s where things get interesting.
It was Lizza who confirmed the end of his engagement to the New York Magazine reporter. He revealed in a statement on Friday, Sept. 20 on Politico‘s website, “Because of my connection to this story through my ex-fiancée, my editors and I have agreed that I won’t be involved in any coverage of Kennedy in Playbook or elsewhere at POLITICO.” Right there in black-and-white, he noted that he and Nuzzi broke up with two letters, “ex.”
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Now a Vanity Fair exposé is offering more insight into the timeline of what went down between RJK Jr., Nuzzi, and Lizza. They are calling it a “flirtation” that began via text after Nuzzi wrote her New York Magazine profile on the former presidential candidate last November. It was a “digital relationship” that allegedly never became physical even though there were reported nude images sent to the politician, but she was not obsessed with him as the New York Post reported.
“She was not stalking him. She did not bombard him with images,” a Nuzzi pal explained to Vanity Fair. Her affair with RFK Jr. was reportedly discovered sometime ahead of the Democratic National Convention in mid-August because that is when Lizza and Nuzzi’s engagement ended. It resulted in an “at times heated” phone call between Lizza and RFK Jr., per Vanity Fair. At that point, RFK Jr. had to know that his affair was likely going to be made public at some point — the warning signs were all there.
While Nuzzi fessed up to her inappropriate relationship with the politician to her New York Magazine editor David Haskell after some coaxing, RFK Jr. is pretending nothing ever happened. “Mr. Kennedy only met Olivia Nuzzi once in his life for an interview she requested, which yielded a hit piece,” a representative for told NBC News on Friday, Sept. 20. As for Hines, she’s letting her jewelry do the talking for now after her wedding ringless finger was photographed by the Daily Mail that same day. It’s a saga that we didn’t have on our 2024 presidential election Bingo card, but RFK Jr. has proven to be an unpredictable factor in the already dramatic year.
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