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Vanity Fair and Olivia Nuzzi announced Friday that they have agreed to go their separate ways following a flood of new revelations about her romantic relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., including allegations of journalistic ethics violations.
wall street journal Was first person to report On the breakup between the magazine and Nuzzi.
Nuzzi, who signed a short-term contract Vanity Fair who was its West Coast editor earlier this year, released a statement with the magazine on Friday announcing that they had “mutually agreed to let his contract expire at the end of the year, in the best interests of the magazine.”
as during his time new york Nuzzi, the magazine’s Washington correspondent, wrote a profile of Kennedy and then began a primarily online affair with the now-Secretary of Health and Human Services. After that relationship is revealed in late 2024, new york After her work was vetted for publication it was removed.
Meanwhile, Nuzzi came into the public spotlight again last month a glare new York Times profile Announcing his new book, American CantoThe memoir, which he said he wrote while in self-imposed exile in Malibu, detailed his relationship with Kennedy—whom he nicknamed “the Politician” throughout the book,
However, following the publication of that profile and a book excerpt in Vanity Fair, Nuzzi’s ex-fiancé, Ryan Lizza, published a series of scathing Substack posts accusing Nuzzi of having romantic relationships with other famous politicians and acting as a political activist during Kennedy’s 2024 independent presidential run.
About a year after leaving New York magazine amid the scandal over the Kennedy affair, Nuzzi was brought in by the new Vanity Fair Editor-in-chief Mark Guiducci will be the magazine’s so-called West Coast editor. At the time she was hired, the outlet said she would focus on “Pacific region events, industries and culture, as well as writing for the magazine.”
In her Substack series, Lisa – former chief correspondent for Washington politico – Claimed that when they were together, Nuzzi cheated on her Once with presidential candidate Mark Sanford, years before her affair with Kennedy. She also alleged that while she was working new yorkNuzzi served as a media relations consultant to Kennedy and helped him pursue and obtain damaging stories.
For his part, Nuzzi has rained heavily Accused her despised ex-husband and Lisa of publishing harmful “revenge porn” in recent weeks. “Telling the truth is not harassment,” Lisa said. Independent,
American Cantowhich was published on Tuesday, has been utterly despised by book critics and sales have been extremely disappointing, if not downright embarrassing. (At the time of publication, his memoir was sluggish at #6,049 On the Amazon hardcover best seller list.)
“You should not write memoirs unless you are prepared to make yourself appear foolish and pathetic. Nuzzi broke this cardinal rule, flattering himself by accepting only the best kinds of disinformation,” Washington Post’s Becca Rothfeld wrote in his review,
Amidst his media blitz to promote the book, which included An Inconvenient Podcast Interview With Tim Miller of The Bulwark, it was reported That’s Nuzzi’s job Vanity Fair She was in danger and her temporary contract was likely to be terminated by the authorities.