Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr.’s affair was exposed because he bragged about her nude photos to friends (report)

New York Magazine reporter Olivia Nuzzi’s secret relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was exposed because he frequently boasted about it to his friends, the Daily Beast reported Saturday.

The 71-year-old former independent presidential candidate allegedly boasted so much about the affair and the nude photos that 31-year-old Nuzzi had sent him that the news even reached NY Magazine editor-in-chief David Haskell.

According to the Daily Beast, Haskell then confronted Nuzzi about it in a one-on-one meeting at the newspaper’s New York office on September 13. The Washington Star correspondent denied the affair several times before Haskell, as DB put it, “gave Nuzzi a chance to come clean.”

As Haskell explained in an email to NY Mag staff on Friday, after Nuzzi admitted to the relationship, she was pulled from covering the 2024 presidential election and subsequently placed on leave. He also revealed that, according to Nuzzi, the relationship began in December of last year after the publication of a cover story she had written about Kennedy and ended around the end of August.

Haskell also reiterated the company’s position that an internal investigation found “no evidence of bias” in Nuzzi’s coverage of the election during her affair or of inaccuracies in her reporting. However, an “independent third party” is conducting a much more thorough investigation, the results of which will determine “final” disciplinary action.

In public statements and in conversations with Haskell, Nuzzi emphasized that her relationship with Kennedy was never “physical.” Citing a person close to Nuzzi, CNN reported that the affair was “emotional and digital in nature.” Puck News reported, citing another person close to Nuzzi, that she sent Kennedy “modest nude photos.”

Nuzzi has also insisted that she has never used Kennedy as a source since their relationship began. She also claims the relationship did not influence her coverage of the 2024 election. But social media posts seemingly supporting Kennedy’s policy positions and comments she made during several New York Times campaign discussions may provide additional context.

On March 5, she called the 2024 presidential election “a three-man race,” even though no poll had ever shown Kennedy to have even the slightest chance of being elected. She also complained that “the establishment press is hesitant to treat Kennedy as a serious candidate for fear of being criticized for ‘providing a platform to an anti-vaxxer.'”

On June 4, Nuzzi took part in a New York Times discussion of Donald Trump’s 34 convictions and said of the then upcoming Biden-Trump debate: “I could certainly imagine a scenario in which Robert F. Kennedy Jr. [debate] stage, and the Biden team throws a tantrum and says they only agreed to a one-on-one debate with Trump and backs out, and then CNN has to decide whether to host a debate between Trump and Kennedy.” She mentioned Kennedy unprompted.

Twenty-three days later, in a NYT chat specifically about the Biden-Trump debate, she complained that the event had been designed by the Biden campaign to “keep Robert F. Kennedy Jr. off the stage.” She also said, “I think it was a mistake to exclude him,” and claimed that it put both Biden and Trump at risk of becoming “more vulnerable to a third-party threat.”

Kennedy is married to “Cut It, Larry!” actress Cheryl Hines. Nuzzi was recently engaged to Politico reporter Ryan Lizza.

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