Olivia Nuzzi parting ways with Vanity Fair following affair allegations

Vanity Fair announced that it is parting ways with political journalist Olivia Nuzzi after allegations about inappropriate affairs had surfaced. 

Both Nuzzi and Vanity Fair 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,” the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

Neither representatives for Nuzzi nor Vanity Fair responded to Fox News Digital‘s requests for comment. 

JOURNALIST OLIVIA NUZZI ADMITS SHE ‘F—ED UP’ FOLLOWING ALLEGED SEXTING AFFAIR WITH RFK JR

Vanity Fair parent company Condé Nast is still in the process of reviewing scandalous claims West Coast editor Olivia Nuzzi. (Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)

Nuzzi released a book this week, “American Canto,” where she in part discussed her alleged digital relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., after she profiled him in 2023 for New York Magazine. She left the magazine last year after the alleged relationship came to light.

She has also been accused by her former fiancé, ex-Politico journalist Ryan Lizza, of having an affair with former Republican South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, which she has denied.

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In an interview with The Bulwark’s Tim Miller, Nuzzi spoke candidly in a new interview about her alleged tryst with Kennedy.

“I had f—ed up,” Nuzzi said in the interview released Tuesday. “I did something wrong. Those ethics rules exist for a reason. They’re very good rules, and I had violated that.”

“There were a lot of people telling me, ‘Oh, just keep going. Cover [until] the end of the election and take some other assignment. Be shameless because everyone else involved is shameless and you should be shameless too.’ I think shame is very important,” Nuzzi said.

Olivia Nuzzi admitted she “f—ed up” after engaging an alleged digital relationship with Robert F Kennedy Jr. during the 2024 election cycle.  (Alexander Tamargo/Getty Images for Vox Media; Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty Images)

“It struck me, that it’s not like you just wake up one day, and you make a mistake, right? That it had to have been many imperceptible errors that contributed to really just a malformed perspective that led to that type of mistake. And I took it really seriously,” she continued. “And I thought it was like this big, important spiritual event in my life that I didn’t want to just pretend that it didn’t happen … At first, it’s like an intoxicating thought, you know, like, oh, could I just do that? And then immediately, it’s just, ‘No. Of course, I can’t do that and live with myself.'”

Nuzzi said she had maintained a “diluted perspective” during the campaign that her tryst with RFK Jr., who is married to actress Cheryl Hines, was “so irrelevant” because his polling had cratered after she had penned her profile of him for New York Magazine in November 2023. 

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She also addressed the claims that she had aided him on how to handle the looming report about him once leaving a bear carcass in Central Park. Nuzzi told Miller that her “approach was Socratic mostly” and “help him talk it out” versus telling him what he should do.

“Anytime I ever gave him prescriptive advice, he never took it,” Nuzzi said. “I didn’t view my role as telling him what to do, right? As unbelievable as it is, I loved him, right? I cared about him. And I didn’t think that — I just didn’t think it was my place to tell him what to do. And I wouldn’t have wanted to tell him what to do anyhow.”

Nuzzi denies she had an affair with former Republican South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, a claim leveled by her ex-fiancé, former Politico journalist Ryan Lizza. (Sean Rayford/Getty Images)

New York Magazine parted ways with Nuzzi following the revelations and conducted a probe that concluded that it found “no inaccuracies nor evidence of bias” in her work. Vanity Fair announced in September that it had hired Nuzzi to be its West Coast editor.

A Kennedy spokesperson previously denied any sort of physical relationship had occurred and said he had only met Nuzzi once. 

Last month, Lizza alleged she also had an affair with Sanford, who she had covered during his short-lived GOP primary challenge against President Donald Trump in the 2020 election cycle. 

Nuzzi’s lawyer told The New York Times that her book “discusses the only instance in her long career as a journalist in which she had an improper relationship with someone she was covering.” Miller did not address the alleged Sanford affair during his hour-long interview with Nuzzi.

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