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Mr. Sparkle

(3,720 posts)
Sun Sep 22, 2024, 10:07 AM Sep 2024

RFK Jr boasted over 'nude pics' of NY Magazine reporter as her former fiance reveals they have parted ways

New York Magazine’s Washington correspondent Olivia Nuzzi sent “demure” nude photos to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. which he later bragged about, two new reports claim. The publication announced Thursday that Nuzzi, 31, had been placed on leave after disclosing a “personal relationship” with “a former subject” relevant to the election. Soon afterwards, media reporter Oliver Darcy revealed that subject to be 70-year-old RFK Jr, who is married to the actor Cheryl Hines.

Nuzzi apparently sent nude photos to the former independent presidential candidate, Puck News reported on Friday. Kennedy then bragged to his friends about receiving intimate photos of Nuzzi, The Daily Beast reported Saturday. These boasts ultimately made their way back to her boss, New York Magazine editor David Haskell.

Olivia Nuzzi, 31, is on leave from New York Magazine after disclosing her relationship with RFK Jr to her editors. The reporter profiled the independent presidential candidate in November (Getty Images) Haskell confronted Nuzzi on September 13 about the photos, telling her that he had heard about Kennedy’s boasts from a source, according toThe Daily Beast. Nuzzi repeatedly denied the relationship before coming clean, according to the outlet.

On Friday, Nuzzi’s partner Ryan Lizza, a reporter at Politico, released a statement which referred to Nuzzi as his “ex-finacée,” indicating the pair have broken up. It is not clear when the couple parted ways.

more... https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/olivia-nuzzi-rfk-jr-relationship-photos-b2616700.html

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RFK Jr boasted over 'nude pics' of NY Magazine reporter as her former fiance reveals they have parted ways (Original Post) Mr. Sparkle Sep 2024 OP
So ... she's a liar, as well as a piece of rightwing garbage UpInArms Sep 2024 #1
Oh please.. whathehell Sep 2024 #6
I don't really care whose spouses leave them senseandsensibility Sep 2024 #23
..Self-righteous much? whathehell Sep 2024 #13
In 2014 she called Obama an intruder at the dsc Sep 2024 #15
For background, you can educate yourself UpInArms Sep 2024 #20
For "background" you can educate yourself whathehell Sep 2024 #21
If you discovered that your fiancee had been sending that lunatic naked photos, Ocelot II Sep 2024 #2
Um, If you discover your 70 year old husband whathehell Sep 2024 #11
Oh, that's a given. I was just commenting on the statement in the linked article Ocelot II Sep 2024 #12
No double standard to me. Bob's wife could /should do the same. Her choice. That was Hillary's problem - why didn't she? Wonder Why Sep 2024 #16
Sorry, but whathehell Sep 2024 #18
Didnt anyone ever snowybirdie Sep 2024 #3
Demure nudes? I could not get beyond that. This whole thing is so stupid. Srkdqltr Sep 2024 #4
Imagine throwing away your career and your fiance comradebillyboy Sep 2024 #5
Not even a fling, the concept of a fling. nt Chellee Sep 2024 #8
Yeah, and in other news, whathehell Sep 2024 #19
What about hines? getagrip_already Sep 2024 #7
It was her birthday yesterday newdeal2 Sep 2024 #9
Everything that touches tsf dies... getagrip_already Sep 2024 #10
I bet this song is running through her head tinrobot Sep 2024 #14
Lizza is also a POS RandySF Sep 2024 #17
By the way, RFKJR also had a pet emu that he kept in his house, Ocelot II Sep 2024 #22

UpInArms

(55,075 posts)
1. So ... she's a liar, as well as a piece of rightwing garbage
Sun Sep 22, 2024, 10:10 AM
Sep 2024
Nuzzi repeatedly denied the relationship before coming clean

whathehell

(30,497 posts)
6. Oh please..
Sun Sep 22, 2024, 10:34 AM
Sep 2024

Spare us the selectively sexist outrage... He is old enough to be her father, and at 70 years old, is married, but BRAGGING about his supposed "conquest". Her fiance walks out on her -- What will his WIFE do with him?

senseandsensibility

(25,168 posts)
23. I don't really care whose spouses leave them
Sun Sep 22, 2024, 02:48 PM
Sep 2024

and have no interest in defending RFK in this matter. His wife can do what she wants, as can Lizza. It's their personal life. And you're right, RFK is much older and has a very long and sordid history of this kind of cheating and worse. He deserves a lot of blame here, and I hope he gets it because he is putting himself out here as someone who would serve in a cheato administration.

However, Nuzzi was in a relationship with RFK at the same time she was trashing Biden, his political opponent, in the media. That's the only part of her conduct that concerns me. And it's a serious concern. Standards in journalism are just as important as standards in the judiciary, medicine, or other professions. What she is did was incredibly unprofessional.

whathehell

(30,497 posts)
13. ..Self-righteous much?
Sun Sep 22, 2024, 11:10 AM
Sep 2024

She's a "liar" AND a "piece of right-wing garbage"?

Wow...Your hate runneth over.

UpInArms

(55,075 posts)
20. For background, you can educate yourself
Sun Sep 22, 2024, 12:13 PM
Sep 2024
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=19485457

Edited to add:

And if you are not inclined to go to the link, here’s just a part of her self exposure

Ocelot II

(130,842 posts)
2. If you discovered that your fiancee had been sending that lunatic naked photos,
Sun Sep 22, 2024, 10:12 AM
Sep 2024

with all that implies, wouldn't she quite promptly become your ex-fiancée?

whathehell

(30,497 posts)
11. Um, If you discover your 70 year old husband
Sun Sep 22, 2024, 10:43 AM
Sep 2024

bragging about his "conquest" of a 31 year old, should he promptly become your ex- husband, or should we just continue with the good old Double Standard?

Ocelot II

(130,842 posts)
12. Oh, that's a given. I was just commenting on the statement in the linked article
Sun Sep 22, 2024, 10:50 AM
Sep 2024

regarding Ryan Lizza's understandable dumping of his girlfriend for weirdly canoodling with Brain Worm Guy. It goes without saying that RFKJR absolutely deserves to be an ex-husband tout suite. Though I doubt I'd have ever even had, in the first place, a brain worm-infested husband who decapitated whales, dumped dead bears in parks, ate dogs and joined the Trump campaign, even if he hadn't also been an enthusiastic adulterer for his whole life.

Wonder Why

(7,145 posts)
16. No double standard to me. Bob's wife could /should do the same. Her choice. That was Hillary's problem - why didn't she?
Sun Sep 22, 2024, 11:29 AM
Sep 2024

whathehell

(30,497 posts)
18. Sorry, but
Sun Sep 22, 2024, 12:02 PM
Sep 2024

the level of vitriole and hostility targeting this person says "double standard" to me.

snowybirdie

(6,719 posts)
3. Didnt anyone ever
Sun Sep 22, 2024, 10:12 AM
Sep 2024

tell him a gentlemen never tells? Now her career is in tatters and he'll go crawl back into wherever he came from with no recriminations. And no real sex? Hardly worth it Olivia.

Srkdqltr

(9,833 posts)
4. Demure nudes? I could not get beyond that. This whole thing is so stupid.
Sun Sep 22, 2024, 10:18 AM
Sep 2024

So she is now broken up with her "partner" . probably for the best.
There are so many nasty things to say.
But it's Sunday.

comradebillyboy

(10,962 posts)
5. Imagine throwing away your career and your fiance
Sun Sep 22, 2024, 10:22 AM
Sep 2024

for a fling with scumbag Bobby Jr.

Olivia has demonstrated remarkably bad judgement in both her professional and private life.

whathehell

(30,497 posts)
19. Yeah, and in other news,
Sun Sep 22, 2024, 12:07 PM
Sep 2024

people make mistakes, many greater than hers and at older ages...Think 50 something Bill and 21 year old Monica..but hey, "Boys will be boys", right?

getagrip_already

(17,802 posts)
7. What about hines?
Sun Sep 22, 2024, 10:35 AM
Sep 2024

She had already threatened to leave him if he aligned with tsf (kennedy said it himself).

Add this on the pile and she has to be reeling.

newdeal2

(5,503 posts)
9. It was her birthday yesterday
Sun Sep 22, 2024, 10:38 AM
Sep 2024

There are photos online that she celebrated it without RFK and was not wearing her wedding ring. What a shit birthday gift huh

Ocelot II

(130,842 posts)
22. By the way, RFKJR also had a pet emu that he kept in his house,
Sun Sep 22, 2024, 01:35 PM
Sep 2024

and who attacked his (probably soon-to-be-ex-) wife so often that she had to protect herself with a shovel. Unfortunately (or not), the emu was eventually eaten by a mountain lion. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/robert-f-kennedy-jr-once-lived-with-an-emu-who-regularly-attacked-his-wife-now-he-just-has-pet-ravens-he-feeds-meat-scraps-and-yells-caw-caw-to

This has nothing to do with the Olivia Nuzzi story, though it makes one wonder why Cheryl Hines put up with that galactically weird SOB at all.

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