{"id":2518262,"date":"2025-12-06T11:34:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T16:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vanity-fair-parts-ways-with-olivia-nuzzi-amid-robert-f-kennedy-jr-controversy\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T11:35:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T16:35:34","slug":"vanity-fair-parts-ways-with-olivia-nuzzi-amid-robert-f-kennedy-jr-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vanity-fair-parts-ways-with-olivia-nuzzi-amid-robert-f-kennedy-jr-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanity Fair parts ways with Olivia Nuzzi amid Robert F. Kennedy Jr. controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvanity-fair-parts-ways-with-olivia-nuzzi-amid-robert-f-kennedy-jr-controversy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2518262&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Vanity Fair has decided to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-trumps-impeachment-defense-team-collapses-ahead-of-senate-trial-top-lawyers-out\/\" title=\"BREAKING: Trump\u2019s Impeachment Defense Team Collapses Ahead Of Senate Trial, Top Lawyers Out\">part ways<\/a> with Olivia Nuzzi, who served as its West Coast editor since September, following controversy surrounding her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fulton-county-outage-roils-court-system-keeping-trump-docket-offline\/\" title=\"Fulton County power outage disrupts court system, Trump case affected\">undisclosed personal relationship<\/a> with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. while she was a Washington correspondent for New York magazine. Nuzzi, a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >prominent political reporter<\/a>, was previously fired by New York magazine for failing to disclose the intense relationship with Kennedy, then a presidential candidate and now head of the Department of Health and Human Services. This controversy intensified amid a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nine-inch-nails-frontman-trent-reznor-denounces-former-collaborator-marilyn-manson-in-light-of-allegations\/\" title=\"Nine Inch Nails Frontman Trent Reznor Denounces Former Collaborator Marilyn Manson In Light Of Allegations\">public feud<\/a> with her ex-fianc\u00e9,journalist Ryan Lizza,who accused her of unethical behavior and published private messages between Nuzzi and Kennedy. Nuzzi recently released a memoir, *American Canto*, reflecting on thes events, but it received poor critical and commercial reception.Both Vanity Fair and Nuzzi agreed to end her contract by the end of the year to serve the magazine&#8217;s best interest.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Vanity Fair parts ways with Olivia Nuzzi amid Robert F. Kennedy Jr. controversy<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2424858\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>NEW YORK (AP) &mdash;<\/strong> <em>Vanity Fair<\/em> is parting ways with West Coast editor&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/olivia-nuzzi-reporter-new-york-magazine-kennedy-0eebc8e7a039b3170cfd037a4e0c416e\">Olivia Nuzzi<\/a>&nbsp;amid ongoing controversy over her relationship with profile subject Robert F. Kennedy Jr. while she was the Washington correspondent for <em>New York<\/em> magazine.<\/p>\n<p>A joint statement Friday from the magazine and Nuzzi said that they &ldquo;have mutually agreed, in the best interest of the magazine, to let her contract expire at the end of the year.&rdquo; She had been hired as its West Coast editor in September.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/3909504\/trump-given-week-of-wins-and-fake-scandal-white-house-report-card\/\">Trump given week of wins and fake scandal: White House Report Card<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3909479\/trump-ballroom-construction-under-budget-and-ahead-of-schedule\/\">Trump says White House ballroom construction &#8216;under budget and ahead of schedule&#8217; after replacing architect<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3909455\/israeli-president-anti-israel-tiktok-message-turn-young-americans-against-ally\/\">Israeli president slams anti-Israel &#8216;TikTok message&#8217; for turning young Americans against Middle Eastern ally<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Nuzzi, 32, had been a star reporter for <em>New York<\/em> magazine known for colorful political profiles until the fall of 2024, when it was revealed she had an intense personal relationship with&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/robert-f-kennedy-jr\">Kennedy<\/a>, a presidential candidate at the time she wrote about him and now head of the Department of Health and Human Services. Nuzzi was fired by <em>New York<\/em> for not disclosing her relationship.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3425847\/trump-pardons-and-commutations-second-term-clemency\/\">TRUMP PARDONS AND COMMUTATIONS: NOTABLE ACTS OF CLEMENCY IN HIS SECOND TERM<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>She reflected on their relationship and the fallout from it in the memoir &ldquo;American Canto,&rdquo; which refers to Kennedy as &ldquo;The Politician&rdquo; and ex-fianc&eacute; Ryan Lizza as &ldquo;the man I did not marry.&rdquo; It was excerpted in <em>Vanity Fair<\/em> but competed for attention with a series of Substack posts by Lizza that contained embarrassing allegations.<\/p>\n<p>Their feud quickly gripped media insiders as Lizza alleged that Nuzzi had an affair with another profile subject and had given Kennedy political advice, both considered off limits for journalists. Lizza even posted salacious, cringeworthy text messages from Kennedy to Nuzzi that he had intercepted.<\/p>\n<p>Nuzzi denounced her ex-fiance&rsquo;s posts, in a Substack interview with Emily Sundberg, as &ldquo;fiction-slash-revenge porn.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Friday&rsquo;s announcement came only days after the publication of &ldquo;American Canto,&rdquo; disdained by critics and apparently of little interest to the reading public. The book ranked just 6,094 on Amazon.com&rsquo;s bestseller list as of Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Critics were harsh: &ldquo;A tell-all memoir? Ha. This is a tell-nothing memoir,&rdquo; wrote Helen Lewis in the <em>Atlantic<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3292730\/all-executive-orders-actions-trump-first-day\/\">THE EXECUTIVE ORDERS, ACTIONS, AND PROCLAMATIONS TRUMP HAS MADE AS PRESIDENT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Through a miserable week, Nuzzi posted a humorous Substack column of &ldquo;Signs Your Book Rollout Has Gone Awry.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Among them: &ldquo;Monica Lewinsky reaches out to check on your mental health.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vanity Fair ends ties with Olivia Nuzzi over RFK Jr. controversy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":2518263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-1252373567.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[50410,40587,43999,37164,68357],"class_list":["post-2518262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-controversy-2","tag-media-news","tag-olivia-nuzzi","tag-robert-f-kennedy-jr","tag-vanity-fair"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-1252373567.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2518262"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2518266,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518262\/revisions\/2518266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2518263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2518262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2518262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2518262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}