Olivia Nuzzi reportedly filed for a no-contact order against her former fiance, journalist Ryan Lizza in Washington, D.C., Superior Court on September 30. Lizza in a response to the court on October 14, alleged that he discovered Nuzzi cheating on him "with a married man" (RFK Jr.) for almost a year. As per court papers seen by Page Six, Lizza claimed,
"She admitted the affair and over the course of weeks of conversations she confided how she fell into what she described as a 'toxic', 'unhealthy' 'stupid' 'psychoting', 'crazy', 'indefensible' relationship with a 70-year old 'sex addict' who told her he wanted to 'possess', 'control', and 'impregnate' her."
Previously Nuzzi had alleged that Lizza hacked her devices with the purpose of stalking, surveilling her, and collecting materials that could be used as blackmail to intimidate her back into the relationship, as well as to "inflict public ridicule and humiliation", "professional damage as punishment" when she would not return to the relationship.
However, Lizza denied Nuzzi's allegations and claimed that he was devastated after learning about her alleged affair with RFK Jr., and ended their engagement over it.
More about Olivia Nuzzi and Ryan Lizza's dispute
Olivia Nuzzi, writer at the New York magazine was placed on leave while a third-party review was conducted after the publication alleged that the writer disclosed that she "had engaged in a personal relationship with a former subject relevant to the 2024 campaign while she was reporting on the campaign."
In a court filing in Washington D.C's Superior Court, Nuzzi claimed that it was her former fiance Ryan Lizza who "explicitly threatened to make public, personal information about me to destroy my life, career, and reputation." Olivia Nuzzi alleged that Ryan made the threat in mid-August, four weeks before New York magazine announced her leave.
As per court filings, Olivia Nuzzi claimed that Ryan allegedly threatened her with violence "to assume his share of financial responsibility" for their joint book contract. Ryan Lizza, Chief Washington Correspondent for Politico and the co-author of the site's Playbook column in a note addressed to readers mentioned that he and Politico agreed for him to take a leave of absence during the investigation. As per a statement from Politico,
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"POLITICO and Ryan Lizza have mutually agreed that it is in everyone's best interest for him to step back and take a leave of absence while an investigation is conducred."
Although Kennedy wasn't directly named in the lawsuit, or in New York magazine's statement, a source informed CNN that Nuzzi was linked to him. As a response, Nuzzi in a previous statement to PEOPLE noted that although the nature of some communication between herself and a former reporting subject turned personal, it was never physical.
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