Who is Olivia Nuzzi, the reporter once called a sl-tbag at the center of RFK sexting firestorm?

New York magazine’s star political reporter Olivia Nuzzi has been placed on leave after admitting she “engaged in a personal relationship” with a key figure in the 2024 presidential race she was reporting on,  whom reports have identified as Robert F.Kennedy Jr.But it isn’t the first time the veteran journo has made the headlines herself.Nuzzi first became the news more than a decade ago when a boss called her a “sl-tbag” while she was still an undergrad.

Olivia Nuzzi, 31, was born in New York City and raised in Middletown Township, NJ, according to a profile from the Two River Times.After early high school bylines in local publications, Nuzzi returned to the Big Apple, where she enrolled at Fordham University. She was a college junior when she volunteered as an intern for disgraced New York pol Anthony Weiner’s mayoral campaign — an experience she wrote about in blog posts for NSFWcorp.In the posts, dated July 28, 2013, Nuzzi alleged that Weiner referred to her and another female intern as “Monica” — seemingly a reference to Monica Lewinsky — and that his campaign manager resigned after he lied to them.Nuzzi parlayed the buzz from the blog posts into a July 30, 2013, cover story for the New York Daily News, in which she further divulged that many of her fellow interns were hoping to use the Weiner campaign as a steppingstone — by way of Weiner’s wife, Huma Abedin — to the Hillary Clinton camp.That same day, Weiner communications director Barbara Morgan gave a profanity-laden takedown of Nuzzi to Talking Points Memo.Morgan, who later claimed she believed the interview was off the record, denounced the then-college student as a “bitch,” a “c–t,” a “t–t,” and finally a “sl-tbag” — an inventive phrase that spawned think pieces of its own.Morgan apologized to Nuzzi, who accepted the apology in a July 31, 2013, interview with the Atlantic.Fresh off the Weiner scandal, Nuzzi was hired by the Daily Beast in May 2014...