Exclusive | Obsessed Olivia Nuzzi pursued RFK Jr. aggressively, pol had to block her repeatedly: source
New York magazine reporter Olivia Nuzzi was “obsessed” with Robert F.Kennedy Jr.
after interviewing him in California, and pursued him via text to the point where he had to repeatedly block her, a source close to Kennedy’s camp told The Post.“She went after him aggressively,” the source said Saturday.“She targeted him pretty hard.
Bobby was blocking her continually.It was a little scary.
She was obsessed with him.I think she still is.”Nuzzi’s camp pushed back on allegations the situation was a “Fatal Attraction” type of scenario or that she instigated the relationship — but did not deny that the digital fling was tumultuous, suggesting both parties may have stopped texting each other at times.“It’s absolutely untrue that she was the aggressor, but both parties were aware of how high pressure and high risk the circumstances were and for that reason their communication was very on and off,” a person with knowledge of the situation said. “Olivia’s point of view is that to call this a relationship or affair is completely inaccurate.
It was at most a flirtation,” another source close to Nuzzi said.The two allegedly began “sexting” sometime after Nuzzi, 31, met with the 70-year-old Kennedy family scion for a November feature piece on the then-White House hopeful, sources had previously said.Nuzzi and Kennedy’s relationship was strictly digital, but allegedly included risqué pics from the Washington correspondent, Puck News reported late Friday, citing a source.Kennedy, the son of Sen.Robert F.
Kennedy and nephew of President John F.Kennedy, is married to “Curb Your Enthusiasm” actress Cheryl Hines, while Nuzzi was engaged to fellow political reporter Ryan Lizza.
Nuzzi and Lizza have since split. Kennedy, who ended his bid for the White House in August, was a no-show Saturday at a family wedding in Hyannis Port, Mass., where Grace Kennedy Allen — the granddaughter of Ted Kennedy — was set to tie the knot.He...