Political author Ryan Lizza has shared one other spherical of explosive claims towards his ex-fiancée, high-profile journalist Olivia Nuzzi, round her alleged digital relationship with 2024 presidential candidate and present well being and human companies secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Nuzzi, Lizza writes immediately, would “often” share “opposition analysis” that she had obtained from trusted sources with Kennedy throughout his presidential marketing campaign.
“Olivia had basically develop into a non-public political operative for Bobby Kennedy, whereas publicly posing as a hard-nosed reporter,” Lizza writes on his Telos Information Substack e-newsletter.
He goes on to particularly recall an occasion during which a “younger marketing campaign aide” shared with Nuzzi, who was working for New York journal on the time, “an inside account of the chaotic course of that led Bobby to pick Nicole Shanahan as his working mate.”
“However as an alternative of pursuing the story, Olivia satisfied the staffer to stay loyal to Bobby — after which knowledgeable the candidate of every part,” Lizza writes. “She had efficiently caught and killed an embarrassing tell-all from a marketing campaign whistleblower whose id she revealed to the candidate.”
He goes on to argue why such habits is unethical.
“Within the media enterprise, there are few journalistic crimes as critical as betraying a confidential supply,” Lizza writes. “How might any supply — or reader — belief such a reporter once more? And in the event that they occurred to develop into an editor, how might any reporter belief that editor with their very own confidential sourcing?”
Lizza additionally recollects how Nuzzi reported on former President Biden not remembering the title of a “Democratic megadonor,” which Lizza says was “advised to her off the report.”
When Lizza requested Nuzzi how she was in a position to embrace that, she mentioned, “I simply kind of Michael Wolffed it.”
Lizza additionally shares one other anecdote from Nuzzi’s 2024 presidential marketing campaign protection, this time involving President Trump. He writes that artist Isabelle Brourman, who had labored as a sketch artist throughout Trump’s Manhattan hush-money trial, had a session with Trump at Mar-a-Lago, full with a recorder in her bag, after which, in line with Nuzzi, “Izzy was hung up on one thing she believed Trump may need mentioned about Butler, Pennsylvania — one thing explosive that, if she have been right, would shatter our understanding of current historical past.”
Butler, Pennsylvania, was famously the location of the July 2024 assassination try on Trump.
These claims are simply the most recent in a variety of allegations Lizza has made about Nuzzi main as much as the discharge of her memoir, American Canto, the place she shares her perspective on the RFK Jr. scandal, although she doesn’t title the politician immediately in her e-book.
On Monday, he accused her of getting an affair with former U.S. Rep. Mark Sanford throughout his 2020 presidential marketing campaign, a bit greater than a 12 months after her interactions with Kennedy made headlines.
In a prolonged submit, listed as “Half 1,” on his Telos Information web page, Lizza says he discovered an “unfinished love letter” to Sanford “that included sufficient particulars to substantiate a bodily relationship and the trace of some sort of falling out.”
“My coronary heart stopped after I realized who he was. He was a well-known politician, 32 years older than Olivia, and well-known for a intercourse scandal. However extra importantly, he was a presidential candidate, a supply, and the topic of Olivia’s current profile for New York,” he writes, partially. “I used to be not an ideal companion, however the scale of Olivia’s betrayal was devastating. She had an affair with somebody who would supply the utmost stage of humiliation and private {and professional} smash, maybe for each of us.”
Lizza continues, “She later defined to me that she turned ‘infatuated’ with him after their interview, that she couldn’t get him out of her head, and that as her obsession intensified, she despatched him more and more risqué footage and texts, secretly adopted him on the marketing campaign path when she advised me she was out protecting different candidates, and fantasized a few rendezvous, which was consummated at his residence in South Carolina one evening after she went darkish on me and made up a narrative about how she was coping with a disaster regarding her sick mom. I used to be certain our relationship was over. And definitely our e-book venture was useless. She had crossed a journalistic pink line. How might we write a e-book in regards to the presidential marketing campaign if Olivia had a sexual relationship with one of many candidates?”
Later this week, Lizza revealed an erotic poem he claims Kennedy shared with Nuzzi.
The most recent allegations about Nuzzi come a bit greater than a 12 months after she left New York journal following explosive revelations in September 2024 that she had engaged in a digital relationship with Kennedy throughout his 2024 presidential marketing campaign. She was placed on depart after acknowledging a relationship with a “former topic,” whereas an inside investigation was performed. Nuzzi and the publication finally “parted methods” following the probe, which discovered no “proof of bias,” in line with New York journal.
Nuzzi at the moment works because the West Coast editor at Self-importance Truthful.
In response to Lizza’s newest claims, Nuzzi’s lawyer Ari Wilkenfeld says, “That is one other instance of why Ms. Nuzzi sought the intervention of the DC Superior Courtroom in 2024 amid a harassment marketing campaign that’s nonetheless ongoing and has now lasted greater than 16 months; that authorized course of was then weaponized and used to escalate the harassment towards her and to humiliate her. Ms. Nuzzi won’t dignify efforts to impugn her character with any future response.”
The White Home, U.S. Division of Well being and Human Companies and a rep for Self-importance Truthful guardian firm Condé Nast haven’t but responded to The Hollywood Reporter‘s request for remark.