Former political journalist Olivia Nuzzi’s tenure at Vainness Honest has come to an finish, a 12 months after experiences of her alleged relationship with Well being and Human Providers Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. upended her profession.
Vainness Honest and a spokesperson for “American Canto” writer Nuzzi mentioned in a joint assertion shared Friday that they “mutually agreed, in the very best curiosity of the journal, to let her contract expire on the finish of the 12 months.” Vainness Honest appointed Nuzzi its West Coast editor in September.
Previous to Vainness Honest, Nuzzi was a Washington correspondent for New York Journal from 2017 to 2024. Her tenure on the outlet got here to a screeching halt after experiences of her alleged romance with Kennedy, 71, surfaced final 12 months. Nuzzi, 32, profiled Kennedy (who’s married to “Curb Your Enthusiasm” actor Cheryl Hines) in 2023 amid his presidential marketing campaign. Nuzzi was engaged to former New Yorker political journalist Ryan Lizza from 2022 to 2024.
After particulars of Nuzzi and Kennedy’s alleged affair (the politician has denied his involvement) went viral, New York Journal instructed readers in a assertion that the author acknowledged she had “engaged in a private relationship with a former topic.” There was a “violation of the journal’s requirements round conflicts and disclosures,” the outlet mentioned.
Although the assertion mentioned an inside investigation discovered “no inaccuracies nor proof of bias,” the journal positioned Nuzzi on go away. “We remorse this violation of our readers’ belief,” the September 2024 assertion mentioned.
Nuzzi and New York Journal formally parted methods in October 2024.
The scandal and its fallout is on the heart of Nuzzi’s new memoir, “American Canto,” launched Tuesday. In her evaluation for The Instances, Leigh Haber writes Nuzzi “has succeeded brilliantly in her want to not be understood.”
“Nuzzi emerges much less as somebody who, within the phrases of her writer, ‘walked by means of hell and she or he took notes,’” Haber provides, “however as a girl whose model of the occasions that laid her low stay stubbornly unprocessed — as blurry and borderless because the e-book itself.”
