Overview
- A Vanity Fair excerpt from Olivia Nuzzi’s forthcoming memoir describes a personal digital relationship with a politician she calls “The Politician,” who she writes told her the much-discussed brain parasite was “not a worm.”
- Hours later, ex-fiancé Ryan Lizza published a Substack post alleging he discovered an unfinished love letter indicating Nuzzi had a physical relationship with former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford in 2020 while she was covering him.
- Lizza’s Sanford claim, detailed with references to hotel stationery and dates, has not been independently corroborated by the outlets reporting on it, and requests for comment to those named were not immediately returned in several stories.
- Lizza also alleges Nuzzi previously had a relationship with Keith Olbermann involving gifts and support; Olbermann weighed in on X by mocking the Sanford angle, and the additional claims remain unverified.
- Nuzzi has said her communications with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “were never physical” but should have been disclosed, a scandal that preceded her exit from New York Magazine; her memoir, American Canto, is scheduled for release on Dec. 2.