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UTUSN

(77,795 posts)
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 04:45 PM Nov 2025

Robert Francis Junior wanted Olivia NUZZI to have his (another) baby.

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https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/he-said-he-wanted-her-to-have-his-baby-olivia-nuzzi-details-relationship-with-rfk-jr-in-wild-interview/

‘He Said He Wanted Her to Have His Baby’: Olivia Nuzzi Details Relationship With RFK Jr in Wild Interview

.... Bernstein writes that Nuzzi’s upcoming book, American Canto, chronicles a digital entanglement with “the politician” — whom readers will immediately recognize as Kennedy — while she was covering the 2024 presidential race. In the book, Nuzzi describes a man with eyes “blue as the flame,” someone moved to tears by “the sight of something as trivial as a rose,” and whose “particular complications and particular darkness” drew her in. ....

The relationship, conducted through texts and calls, destabilized Nuzzi’s career, ultimately leading to an agreement to part ways with New York Magazine and what she calls a yearlong retreat to Los Angeles. She says she told Kennedy “I love you” only after he said it first, and that he called her “Livvy,” wrote her poems, and pledged that he would “take a bullet for her.”

Nuzzi maintains the relationship was never physical, telling Bernstein, “We were not sleeping together,” but acknowledges a mutual emotional intensity. She went on to recognize criticism from people who wondered “what came over her,” quipping, “Maybe it was the vaccines.”

She also recalls the fallout; that as the story unraveled, “the nation seemed to be up my skirt.” She fled to Malibu, where she wrote much of American Canto on her phone while hiking, describing a year in which she felt “hunted.” Today, she says she and Kennedy have not spoken in a year, telling the Times she has no interest in “offering punditry” about his tenure in President Donald Trump’s administration.

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Robert Francis Junior wanted Olivia NUZZI to have his (another) baby. (Original Post) UTUSN Nov 2025 OP
Another story of a woman's career chelsea0011 Nov 2025 #1
Plus, this derelict and his Dear Leader are both starved for glory they didn't earn on their own. UTUSN Nov 2025 #3
This is bizarre MustLoveBeagles Nov 2025 #2
"eyes "blue as the flame," someone moved to tears by "the sight of something as trivial as a rose," DavidDvorkin Nov 2025 #4
The "dark and stormy night" contest has been retired. Seriously. UTUSN Nov 2025 #5
Wasn't there a song about that? Kid Berwyn Nov 2025 #6

UTUSN

(77,795 posts)
3. Plus, this derelict and his Dear Leader are both starved for glory they didn't earn on their own.
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 05:48 PM
Nov 2025

DavidDvorkin

(20,589 posts)
4. "eyes "blue as the flame," someone moved to tears by "the sight of something as trivial as a rose,"
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 06:33 PM
Nov 2025

and whose “particular complications and particular darkness” drew her in.

Sounds like a bad romance novel.

Kid Berwyn

(24,375 posts)
6. Wasn't there a song about that?
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 07:36 PM
Nov 2025


And a promising journalist is destroyed and a good name is dragged to Trumpian depths.
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