New York journal political reporter Olivia Nuzzi and former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “weren’t being notably cautious” about protecting their alleged emotional entanglement a secret, sources instructed The Submit of the bombshell revelation.
Nuzzi, 31, and the Kennedy scion, 70, have been fairly blasé concerning the inappropriate relationship and “could have instructed lots of people” earlier than it was publicly outed on Thursday, a supply dished to The Submit.
“They weren’t being notably cautious. There’s a motive New York magazine discovered,” the supply defined.
Nuzzi was positioned on depart from the journal after “she had engaged in a private relationship with a former topic related to the 2024 marketing campaign whereas she was reporting on the marketing campaign, a violation of the journal’s requirements round conflicts of curiosity and disclosures,” the publication stated Thursday.
Different sources additionally instructed The Submit that the highest brass at New York Journal have been already conscious of the connection and that they confronted Nuzzi, regardless of reviews that she had come clear to editors.
A spokeswoman for New York Journal declined to remark.
The newsroom, in the meantime, is abuzz concerning the scandalous allegations involving a star reporter.
“It’s all anyone is speaking about,” stated a New York Journal supply, noting that phrase trickled out after newsroom leaders and Nuzzi’s editors joined a video name led by Editor-in-Chief David Haskell Thursday night time.
Haskell additionally circulated a memo Friday morning to the journal’s employees, explaining that administration realized of Nuzzi’s relationship a couple of days in the past and that it was operating a third-party investigation into the scandal, the supply stated.
Nuzzi and RFK Jr. – whom she coated for the journal within the fall of 2023 – have been allegedly sexting across the new yr, sources instructed The Submit.
Nuzzi, with out naming RFK Jr., admitted in a press release of her personal that, earlier this yr, “the character of some communications between myself and a former reporting topic turned private.”
The connection was by no means bodily, she insisted.
RFK Jr. – who’s married to “Curb Your Enthusiasm” actress Cheryl Hines – solely met Nuzzi “as soon as in his life for an interview she requested, which yielded a success piece,” a Kennedy spokesperson instructed The Submit when requested about their alleged relationship.
Nuzzi was engaged to Politico reporter Ryan Lizza in September 2022. Lizza confirmed their cut up in a press release in Politico on Friday, by which he referred to Nuzzi as his “ex-fiancée.” It’s unclear precisely when the pair parted methods.
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