Who Is Olivia Nuzzi? What Happened with RFK Jr.? Why Can’t Anyone Be Normal Anymore?

Exactly who is Olivia Nuzzi and wherefore is everyone talking astir her close now?

Thursday, September 19, was a weird day successful American politics. The astir cartoonishly extremist gubernatorial campaigner successful the federation refused to driblet retired of the contention aft his ain enactment leaked his humiliating enactment scandal.

That was not all. The notorious Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has been a bizarre C-story passim the 2024 predetermination cycle, besides came up. This time, it didn’t impact eating roadkill oregon his brainworm.

This time, it progressive a well-known writer who is present connected permission from New York Magazine aft her “personal” relationship.

Reporter Olivia Nuzzi arrives for the White House Correspondents’ Association meal astatine the Washington Hilton successful Washington, DC, April 29, 2023. (Photo Credit: STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Who is Olivia Nuzzi?

Olivia Nuzzi has been New York Magazine‘s premiere Washington analogous for years.

Her vocation successful journalism began backmost successful 2011 (the twelvemonth that she turned 20). Most of her career, with the objection of clip penning for More Monmouth Musings, has been escaped of reddish flags. She’s written for The Daily Beast, Politico, GQ, Esquire, and more.

Much much recently, immoderate of her posts person seemed downright weird. With caller context, her bizarre defence of earthy milk and different baffling takes commencement to astir marque sense. Almost.

Former Presidential campaigner Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gives remarks astatine the Renaissance Phoenix Downtown Hotel connected August 23, 2024. (Photo Credit: Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)

On Thursday, September 19, New York Magazine announced that Olivia Nuzzi was connected leave.

“Recently our Washington Correspondent Olivia Nuzzi acknowledged to the magazine’s editors that she had engaged successful a idiosyncratic narration with a erstwhile taxable applicable to the 2024 campaign,” New York Magazine shared.

The update elaborate that she did truthful “while she was reporting connected the campaign.” The announcement explained that she is connected leave, and that the mag was conducting a third-party review.

New York Magazine Washington Correspondent Olivia Nuzzi attends Vox Media’s 2022 Code Conference – Day 2 connected September 07, 2022. (Photo Credit: Randy Shropshire/Getty Images for Vox Media)

Olivia Nuzzi denies that thing was ‘physical’ with RFK Jr.

Though she admitted that the narration “turned personal,” Olivia Nuzzi emphasized that things did not get “physical” with RFK Jr.

“Earlier this year, the quality of immoderate connection betwixt myself and a erstwhile reporting taxable turned personal,” she said successful a statement connected Thursday night. “During that time, I did not straight study connected the taxable nor usage them arsenic a source.”

Nuzzi insisted: “The narration was ne'er carnal but should person been disclosed to forestall the quality of a conflict. I profoundly regret not doing truthful instantly and apologize to those I’ve disappointed, particularly my colleagues astatine New York Mag.”

Independent Presidential campaigner Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gives a keynote code during the Bitcoin 2024 league astatine Music City Center July 26, 2024. (Photo Credit: Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

As for the timeline, Olivia Nuzzi published a illustration connected RFK Jr. successful November of 2023. Allegedly, this non-physical entanglement did not statesman until aft the article’s publication. So, you know, astatine slightest there’s that.

Reportedly, RFK Jr. has “boasted” astir their narration successful private. This is simply a antheral who blurts retired horrifying stories astir a babe carnivore carcass. His inability to not self-destruct has go a major constituent of parody.

In lawsuit you were wondering, Olivia Nuzzi has been engaged to chap writer Ryan Lizza since September of 2023. Meanwhile, RFK Jr. has been joined to actress Cheryl Hines since 2014. (No, we person nary thought wherefore she’s with him oregon wherefore she hasn’t near him. Not implicit this, conscionable … successful general)

Numerous gag tweets person poked amusive astatine Olivia Nuzzi and Robert F Kennedy Jr.’s non-physical relationship. When a respected writer throws distant her vocation for a notorious buffoon, the jokes are inevitable. (Image Credit: Twitter)

Is 2024 adjacent real?

Obviously, the responses to this person not been kind. People person pointed retired however Olivia Nuzzi’s longtime fans person disquieted astir oregon adjacent unfollowed her implicit immoderate of her caller stances. Someone abruptly having atrocious takes retired of obscurity tin sometimes hap erstwhile they’re having “communication” with idiosyncratic who conscionable spews brainrotten nonsense constantly.

In summation to Challengers jokes similar this tweet, radical person done immoderate digging. In a 2015 tweet, Nuzzi asked: “Why does Hollywood deliberation pistillate reporters slumber with their sources?”

Oddly enough, that’s a just critique of overused tropes successful fiction! Unfortunately, Nuzzi is, successful hindsight, possibly not the champion idiosyncratic to inquire the question.