Vanity Fair and Olivia Nuzzi, journalist who had alleged affair with RFK Jr., part ways

Former governmental writer Olivia Nuzzi’s tenure astatine Vanity Fair has travel to an end, a twelvemonth aft reports of her alleged narration with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. upended her career.

Vanity Fair and a spokesperson for “American Canto” writer Nuzzi said successful a associated connection shared Friday that they “mutually agreed, successful the champion involvement of the magazine, to fto her declaration expire astatine the extremity of the year.” Vanity Fair appointed Nuzzi its West Coast exertion successful September.

Prior to Vanity Fair, Nuzzi was a Washington analogous for New York Magazine from 2017 to 2024. Her tenure astatine the outlet came to a screeching halt aft reports of her alleged romance with Kennedy, 71, surfaced past year. Nuzzi, 32, profiled Kennedy (who is joined to “Curb Your Enthusiasm” histrion Cheryl Hines) successful 2023 amid his statesmanlike campaign. Nuzzi was engaged to erstwhile New Yorker governmental writer Ryan Lizza from 2022 to 2024.

After details of Nuzzi and Kennedy’s alleged matter (the person has denied his involvement) went viral, New York Magazine told readers successful a connection that the writer acknowledged she had “engaged successful a idiosyncratic narration with a erstwhile subject.” There was a “violation of the magazine’s standards astir conflicts and disclosures,” the outlet said.

Though the connection said an interior probe recovered “no inaccuracies nor grounds of bias,” the mag placed Nuzzi connected leave. “We regret this usurpation of our readers’ trust,” the September 2024 connection said.

Nuzzi and New York Magazine officially parted ways successful October 2024.

The ungraded and its fallout is astatine the halfway of Nuzzi’s caller memoir, “American Canto,” released Tuesday. In her reappraisal for The Times, Leigh Haber writes Nuzzi “has succeeded brilliantly successful her privation not to beryllium understood.”

“Nuzzi emerges little arsenic idiosyncratic who, successful the words of her publisher, ‘walked done hellhole and she took notes,’” Haber adds, “but arsenic a pistillate whose mentation of the events that laid her debased stay stubbornly unprocessed — arsenic blurry and borderless arsenic the publication itself.”