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New York Magazines 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 Kennedys boasts from a source, according toThe Daily Beast. Nuzzi repeatedly denied the relationship before coming clean, according to the outlet.
On Friday, Nuzzis 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
UpInArms
(55,075 posts)whathehell
(30,497 posts)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)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)She's a "liar" AND a "piece of right-wing garbage"?
Wow...Your hate runneth over.
dsc
(53,416 posts)White House.
UpInArms
(55,075 posts)Edited to add:
And if you are not inclined to go to the link, heres just a part of her self exposure

whathehell
(30,497 posts)on Hyperbole and Overstatement.
..Buh bye.
Ocelot II
(130,842 posts)with all that implies, wouldn't she quite promptly become your ex-fiancée?
whathehell
(30,497 posts)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)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)whathehell
(30,497 posts)the level of vitriole and hostility targeting this person says "double standard" to me.
snowybirdie
(6,719 posts)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)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)for a fling with scumbag Bobby Jr.
Olivia has demonstrated remarkably bad judgement in both her professional and private life.
Chellee
(2,300 posts)whathehell
(30,497 posts)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)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)There are photos online that she celebrated it without RFK and was not wearing her wedding ring. What a shit birthday gift huh
getagrip_already
(17,802 posts)Relationships included.
tinrobot
(12,092 posts)RandySF
(85,128 posts)who was fired from the New Yorker for sexual misconduct.
Ocelot II
(130,842 posts)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.