Olivia Nuzzi simply cannot stop taking Ls. This whole story is so embarrassing for her. To recap, Nuzzi is currently suspended from her position as New York Magazine’s DC correspondent. She was suspended after her editor heard that Robert Kennedy Jr. was bragging to everyone that Nuzzi had sent him her “demure” nudes. Her editor confronted her, she lied about the relationship repeatedly, and then she confessed and she was suspended. She claims the relationship with Kennedy was purely online. Her fiance Ryan Lizza dumped her, and Kennedy’s wife Cheryl Hines is seemingly sticking with him. Possibly because Kennedy is now telling everyone that Nuzzi pursued him and he repeatedly blocked her because she kept sending “seductive” photos. From the Daily Beast:

Friends of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are claiming that star reporter Olivia Nuzzi “set him up” by repeatedly sending him seductive photographs even after her number had been blocked, according to new reports. The New York Magazine writer was “obsessed” with him and Kennedy allegedly intends to file a civil suit against the journalist, sources close to the scion told the New York Post over the weekend. Allies of the former independent presidential candidate say that after Nuzzi interviewed the then White House hopeful in California for an article she pursued him “aggressively.”

“She targeted him pretty hard. Bobby was blocking her continually. It was a little scary,” a source told the Post. “She was obsessed with him. I think she still is.” Nuzzi’s camp refuted Kennedy and his allies’ claims that she was “obsessed” with the environmental advocate turned politician and singlehandedly instigated the “digital relationship,” but did acknowledge that the fling was, at times, tense.

According to Jessica Read Kraus, an “independent” journalist and self-described friend of Kennedy, the self proclaimed “Make America Healthy Again” candidate first cut contact with Nuzzi after she allegedly made a flirtatious remark two weeks after her November, 2023 feature on him was published in New York.

“A few weeks later, Nuzzi emailed him, asking to be unblocked, claiming she had urgent information about a hit piece being prepared against him,” Kraus alleged in a Substack newsletter to her nearly 400,000 subscribers. “He unblocked her for that conversation, but later that night, she sent him a provocative picture, prompting him to block her again.”

Kraus said that for eight months, Kennedy kept Nuzzi blocked, except for when she would allegedly contact him from different email addresses and phone numbers, “insisting” they speak about “an imminent hit piece.”

“Once unblocked, she bombarded him with increasingly p-rnographic photos and videos that he found difficult to resist,” she continued. Friends who Kraus spoke with said they believed Nuzzi “set him up.”

According to security expert Gavin de Becker, who is supposedly investigating the Nuzzi-Kennedy “situation” for Kennedy, the former presidential candidate is weighing civil litigation against the reporter with the potential for future criminal referrals.

“This had nothing to do with romance,” said de Becker. “He was being chased by p-rn.”

[From The Daily Beast]

This is clearly Kennedy’s side of things, this is what he’s telling Cheryl Hines and what he’s telling friends. The thing is, I absolutely believe Nuzzi pursued him and she was the one sending him photos and all of that. Even if you aren’t inclined to believe some or all of Kennedy’s story, it’s still bonkers that this version is out there, that Kennedy’s side of this situation is that he was being bombarded with Nuzzi’s graphic pursuit, that it was not a mutual love affair at all.

Meanwhile, this is not any kind of ethical quagmire – Nuzzi’s behavior, even in the most generous reading, was utterly unethical and deeply troubling. The fact that so many Beltway journalists are defending her is insane. The Wrap did a breakdown of all of the tweet-defenses and how f–king bonkers this is. I’m including some of the tweets below:

And yet somehow women reporters took down Jerry Sandusky and Harvey Weinstein and Roy Moore without sending nude photos of themselves to anyone.
What an utterly humiliating thread that insults actual professional women journalists. https://t.co/6lD5bJ30bA

— Laura Chapin (@LauraChapin) September 22, 2024

Mook, there used to be a standard by which if a reporter showed up at a politician's fundraiser and there was an open bar, we didn't drink or we threw a $10 bill on the bar so we weren't so much as free-sipping the guy's bottom-shelf gin. Fucking the people we were covering and… https://t.co/2bxTJRSSQK

— David Simon (@AoDespair) September 21, 2024

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