Olivia Nuzzi initially denied sexting tryst with RFK Jr. when confronted by boss: report
New York Magazine correspondent Olivia Nuzzi repeatedly denied accusations of a sexting fling with former presidential hopeful Robert F.Kennedy Jr.
when pressed by her boss, according to a report.The magazine’s editor-in-chief David Haskell reportedly confronted Nuzzi after catching wind of rumors about a tryst between the two, according to the Daily Beast.However, after getting grilled on it, she ultimately fessed up to having a rapport with the Kennedy scion that grew personal.New York Magazine, Haskell and Nuzzi declined to comment to The Post.
Kennedy’s spokesperson on Sunday denied another claim in the Daily Beast report — that he unwittingly tipped off Nuzzi’s boss by boasting to his buddies about having intimate photos of Nuzzi.“That is absolutely false,” Kennedy’s spokesperson told The Post — adding that RFK Jr.did not boast about having photos of Nuzzi.The spox didn’t comment on whether Kennedy actually received intimate photos of Nuzzi.Last Thursday, New York magazine announced it had placed the 31-year-old journo on leave pending a third-party investigation into the situation.
The outlet called the ordeal a “violation of the magazine’s standards around conflicts of interest and disclosures” and noted it conducted an in-house review of Nuzz’s work and “found no inaccuracies nor evidence of bias” in her published work.Sources previously told The Post that Nuzzi and Kennedy, 70, hadn’t been good at hiding their flirtation.“They weren’t being particularly careful.
There’s a reason New York mag found out,” one source said.Nuzzi, the magazine’s star political reporter, has been largely quiet about the specifics of the apparent tryst with Kennedy.During much of the months-long correspondence, Nuzzi had been engaged to Ryan Lizza, the chief Washington correspondent for Politico and author of the outlet’s flagship newsletter, Politico Playbook.
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