NY Mag Reporter On Leave Over RFK Jr 'Relationship'

New York magazine’s Washington correspondent Olivia Nuzzi was placed on leave after she had an alleged romantic relationship with former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr while covering his campaign. 

Nuzzi, without naming the 70-year-old Kennedy scion, admitted in a Thursday night statement that earlier this year “the nature of some communications between myself and a former reporting subject turned personal.” 

The 31-year-old star political reporter insisted the relationship was not physical in nature. 

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Sources told The NY Post that Nuzzi and RFK. Jr. — the son of RFK and nephew of John F. Kennedy — were allegedly sexting while she was engaged and he was married. 

Nuzzi penned a profile on Kennedy that was published in November 2023 and sometime after that two began their alleged fling, STATUS news reported, citing sources. 

While reporting out the feature article, Nuzzi visited RFK. Jr’s sprawling Brentwood, California home and the two went hiking together in the Santa Monica Mountains.

“Mr. Kennedy only met Olivia Nuzzi once in his life for an interview she requested, which yielded a hit piece,” a Kennedy spokesperson told The Post when asked about their alleged relationship. 

After recently coming clean to editors at New York magazine, Nuzzi was placed on leave. 

She confessed “she had engaged in a personal relationship with a former subject relevant to the 2024 campaign while she was reporting on the campaign, a violation of the magazine’s standards around conflicts of interest and disclosures,” the publication said in a statement.