Overview
- Condé Nast said the magazine and Nuzzi “mutually agreed” to let her short-term deal lapse at the end of the year.
- Vanity Fair opened an internal review after Ryan Lizza’s serialized allegations, having earlier said it was “taken by surprise” and was assessing the facts.
- Nuzzi joined in September as West Coast editor on a temporary contract that required renewal; the Wall Street Journal first reported the non-renewal.
- Lizza has accused Nuzzi of an additional affair with Mark Sanford and of conducting “catch-and-kill” efforts benefiting Robert F. Kennedy Jr., with several claims not independently verified.
- Nuzzi’s memoir, American Canto, debuted this week to largely negative reviews after Vanity Fair ran an excerpt, and she had previously exited New York Magazine following disclosure of her relationship with Kennedy.