A enterprise journalist who famously ditched her husband and job for disgraced “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli defended New York journal author Olivia Nuzzi over her alleged sexting scandal with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – and even wildly advised that the publication could have colluded within the supposed emotional affair.
“So f-ing bored with ladies being scandalized for issues that may be full non-events if males did them,” Christie Smythe wrote on X shortly earlier than 1 a.m. Friday, simply hours after the bombshell accusations surrounding Nuzzi and Kennedy first made headlines.
“Sure, she ought to have disclosed any battle, but in addition, like perhaps the journal quietly inspired this “battle” as a result of it needed scoops?” Smythe advised.
The Submit has reached out to New York journal for touch upon Smythe’s remarks.
Nuzzi, 31, was positioned on go away from her plum job as a politics reporter at New York journal after she acknowledged a “private relationship with a former topic related to the 2024 marketing campaign,” the publication stated Thursday.
The previous topic was later revealed to be Robert F. Kennedy Jr, 70, whom she profiled for the journal within the fall of 2023.
Sources instructed The Submit that the pair was allegedly sexting earlier this yr.
Smythe, now in her early 40s, generated her personal controversy in 2020, when she penned a narrative in Elle journal about how she left her husband and a job at Bloomberg Information to pursue a relationship with Shkreli.
Smythe met the long run felon in 2015, when she was assigned to cowl him for Bloomberg.
She later broke the information of his arrest for securities fraud. Shkreli – who grew to become a pariah when he amped up the value of an anti-parasitic drug as CEO of Turing Prescription drugs – was convicted in 2017, and spent a number of years behind bars.
Smythe insisted that her relationship with Shkreli remained platonic till she began visiting him in jail in 2018.
She even admitted to lacking her first marriage counseling session together with her then-husband in an effort to see the reviled “Pharma Bro.”
Smythe and Shkreli ultimately grew to become a pair – and have been so critical at one level that that they had a few of Smythe’s eggs frozen and mentioned having a baby collectively, she stated.
“It was such a slap within the face to the media institution. The matter had been settled. Martin was the villain and that was that,” she later instructed The Submit concerning the backlash to the Elle piece.
Shkreli was so irked by her determination to air their relationship to the general public that he broke it off through a letter from his lawyer, Smythe stated.
However Smythe additionally claimed that the pair by no means utterly minimize ties, and some weeks after his early launch in 2022, stated that she hoped to see him.
“I’ll at all times have emotions for him,” Smythe stated of her former paramour.
Neither Nuzzi nor RFK Jr. have publicly confirmed their alleged relationship.
Nuzzi didn’t title the Kennedy scion in her personal assertion, during which admitted that “the character of some communications between myself and a former reporting topic turned private.”
The connection was by no means bodily, she claimed.
Nuzzi’s former fiancé, Politico reporter Ryan Lizza, confirmed their cut up in a press release in Politico PM on Friday afternoon.
“Due to my connection to this story by my ex-fiancée, my editors and I’ve agreed that I gained’t be concerned in any protection of Kennedy in Playbook or elsewhere at POLITICO,” the remark learn.
A spokesperson for Kennedy denied the rumors, saying that the married dad of six solely met Nuzzi “as soon as in his life,” when she profiled him for New York journal final fall.
