New York Magazine’s star political reporter, Olivia Nuzzi, has been placed on leave following allegations of an affair with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whom she met while profiling him for the publication last year. Nuzzi told her editors that she had “engaged in a personal relationship with a former subject relevant to the 2024 campaign,” the outlet confirmed.
As news emerged overnight about the 31-year-old journalist, who frequently appears on CNN, and her relationship with the 70-year-old former presidential candidate, social media erupted, with Nuzzi’s name rapidly trending on X. Meanwhile, Nuzzi, the Washington reporter of the magazine is engaged to Ryan Lizza, Politico’s chief Washington correspondent, who is 50.
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“The nature of some communication between myself and a former reporting subject turned personal,” Nuzzi said in a statement to the Daily Mail and also claimed the relationship was never physical.
Despite the recent attention on Nuzzi, this isn’t the …