Vanity Fair, Olivia Nuzzi Agree to Part Ways
Vanity Fair and Olivia Nuzzi said they have agreed to part ways following new revelations and allegations about an affair with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and her behavior while reporting on him.
Nuzzi and the magazine said in a statement that they “mutually agreed, in the best interest of the magazine, to let her contract expire at the end of the year.”
Nuzzi wrote a profile of Kennedy in 2023, when she was New York magazine’s Washington correspondent. The magazine parted ways with her in late 2024 after news of her relationship with Kennedy prompted an investigation into her work.
Her new book, titled “American Canto” and detailing her affair with an unnamed politician—along with a series of scathing Substack posts published in recent weeks by her ex-fiancé, longtime political journalist Ryan Lizza—have revived questions about her ethical conduct as a journalist.
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