Olivia Nuzzi on her relationship with RFK Jr.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have a link to part 2, without a paywall? I never got to read it.

He also published a part 3 (also behind a paywall) and part 4 is coming out tonight.

I can't imagine that Vanity Fair wouldn't fire Olivia after this. Sleeping with several of the men you're writing profiles about is very bad, but feeding them non-public info to help their political careers breaks every principle of journalism (of which she had very few, it seems).
https://www.telos.news/p/part-3-catch-and-kill

One night in early August 2024, before I knew anything, Olivia Nuzzi became obsessed with obtaining an advance copy of an article that The New Yorker was set to publish the following day. Olivia was desperate to get a preview of a profile of Bobby Kennedy Jr. by Clare Malone, a political reporter whom Olivia viewed as a competitor.

The piece included a killer anecdote, one of the most memorable of the presidential campaign, and which would come to define Bobby’s image for much of the public: A decade earlier, he had left the carcass of a black-bear cub in Central Park as some kind of twisted prank.

This was precisely the sort of story that Olivia relished, a Twin Peaks-like tale that illuminated the darker parts of a candidate’s mind. Olivia had written one of the earliest profiles of Bobby, so I figured her fixation on getting The New Yorker piece was also about professional jealousy. Bobby was her subject. Now she had missed a major scoop about the candidate whom, behind the scenes and without much explanation, she insisted would be the next president.

What I didn’t know at the time was that she was secretly working to help make Bobby the next president.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She can’t handle replies on this post 😬

This woman is SO self-important. That photo is laughable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She can’t handle replies on this post 😬

This woman is SO self-important. That photo is laughable.

She seems mentally fragile

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have a link to part 2, without a paywall? I never got to read it.

He also published a part 3 (also behind a paywall) and part 4 is coming out tonight.

I can't imagine that Vanity Fair wouldn't fire Olivia after this. Sleeping with several of the men you're writing profiles about is very bad, but feeding them non-public info to help their political careers breaks every principle of journalism (of which she had very few, it seems).
https://www.telos.news/p/part-3-catch-and-kill

One night in early August 2024, before I knew anything, Olivia Nuzzi became obsessed with obtaining an advance copy of an article that The New Yorker was set to publish the following day. Olivia was desperate to get a preview of a profile of Bobby Kennedy Jr. by Clare Malone, a political reporter whom Olivia viewed as a competitor.

The piece included a killer anecdote, one of the most memorable of the presidential campaign, and which would come to define Bobby’s image for much of the public: A decade earlier, he had left the carcass of a black-bear cub in Central Park as some kind of twisted prank.

This was precisely the sort of story that Olivia relished, a Twin Peaks-like tale that illuminated the darker parts of a candidate’s mind. Olivia had written one of the earliest profiles of Bobby, so I figured her fixation on getting The New Yorker piece was also about professional jealousy. Bobby was her subject. Now she had missed a major scoop about the candidate whom, behind the scenes and without much explanation, she insisted would be the next president.

What I didn’t know at the time was that she was secretly working to help make Bobby the next president.

Imagine all the sources and sugar daddies she slept with the ex doesn’t know about. She’s a train wreck. Call Andy Cohen, maybe she can go be a reality tv wacko on Bravo.

[Anonymous]

Part 4 from Ryan Lizza is up

Part 4: Means of Control
The Mar-a-Lago tape, the Bobby phone call, Olivia's side of the story, and the neighbor who cracked the case.

Bobby and Olivia planned to consummate their relationship on August 23, 2024, in Phoenix, Arizona, after he endorsed Trump at a rally in nearby Glendale. The timing was perfect. Bobby would no longer be a presidential candidate himself, so the media glare would dim, and, more importantly, Olivia later told me, he would no longer have the Secret Service protection that complicated an encounter. (And presumably Cheryl wouldn’t be around, either.) Olivia had a present for Bobby she was going to bring: a 1943 edition of Brenda Starr, Girl Reporter, a book based on the old comic strip about Starr’s wild adventures while on assignment for a newspaper.

There were two problems. Inconveniently for them, I was also planning to be in Arizona to cover the Trump-Kennedy event. And then, a few days before the rally and the planned hotel room encounter, after Bobby and Olivia had been talking, texting, and FaceTiming for almost a year, I finally learned about their affair. Olivia reluctantly canceled her rendezvous with Bobby, who was about to become one of the most powerful figures in the Trump universe, a fortuitous development because Olivia was wrapping up her latest New York magazine assignment, a profile of Trump.

This is the point where our story starts to get weird, when a series of events unfolds from August through November that thrusts me into a Kafkaesque nightmare, driven by Bobby’s extreme paranoia about what I know and Olivia’s extreme fears about what Bobby might do to her if I tell anyone.

[Anonymous]

A year-long sexting relationship and they never once kissed or slept with each other. lol. Does Olivia still not realize she was just being led on and soft rejected? He was never going to sleep with her. She was just his unscrupulous toadie hack reporter; a henchwoman working for free.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A year-long sexting relationship and they never once kissed or slept with each other. lol. Does Olivia still not realize she was just being led on and soft rejected? He was never going to sleep with her. She was just his unscrupulous toadie hack reporter; a henchwoman working for free.

She’s still not revealing everything she knows, it’s really weird. Interview with Tim Miller here, I like how he asks her why she didn’t speak up during his confirmation process.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bulwark-podcast/id1447684472?i=1000739422190

[Anonymous]

Sorry if someone already posted the link, but this article was the summation of the Nuzzo/Lizzo/RFK affair that I didn't know I needed:

https://www.theringer.com/2025/11/25/national-affairs/olivia-nuzzi-rfk-jr-ryan-lizza-explained-book-scandal

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry if someone already posted the link, but this article was the summation of the Nuzzo/Lizzo/RFK affair that I didn't know I needed:

https://www.theringer.com/2025/11/25/national-affairs/olivia-nuzzi-rfk-jr-ryan-lizza-explained-book-scandal

This is great.

[Anonymous]

I just listened to the Tim Miller interview. What a delusional, despicable person she is. She was so evasive, appears to feel completely victimized and entitled. She took total advantage of her role and helped usher this nut job into his current position and she appears to feel that the public outrage is unfair? And the absolute gal to call someone else out for violating "journalistic ethics." She's gross and should never be trusted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry if someone already posted the link, but this article was the summation of the Nuzzo/Lizzo/RFK affair that I didn't know I needed:

https://www.theringer.com/2025/11/25/national-affairs/olivia-nuzzi-rfk-jr-ryan-lizza-explained-book-scandal

This is great.

Kudos to the person who shared this. Yes, neither of them should work in anywhere remotely related to journalism again and RFK Jr@ss should be nowhere near HHS.

[Anonymous]

I always knew Olivia was a snake, but I thought she was a cold rationalist and had more discretion than whatever this is. What's going on with her?

[Anonymous]

How is the book actually selling? Well?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How is the book actually selling? Well?

Someone with an NPD Bookscan account needs to check the numbers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just listened to the Tim Miller interview. What a delusional, despicable person she is. She was so evasive, appears to feel completely victimized and entitled. She took total advantage of her role and helped usher this nut job into his current position and she appears to feel that the public outrage is unfair? And the absolute gal to call someone else out for violating "journalistic ethics." She's gross and should never be trusted.

Someone on twitter said she’s been social climbing horizontally for nearly 20 years. Funny but so disgusting. I’m sure her parents are proud.