Overview
- Vanity Fair said it was taken by surprise and is looking at all the facts regarding newly hired West Coast editor Olivia Nuzzi after claims by her ex-fiancé, Ryan Lizza.
- Lizza’s follow-up Substack post published alleged sexual messages and a ‘poem’ he says Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sent to Nuzzi.
- Lizza also wrote that Nuzzi told him she feared Kennedy might kill her if details of their relationship became public.
- In an earlier post, Lizza alleged Nuzzi had an affair with former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford after profiling him in 2019, a claim her lawyer counters by saying her book discloses only one improper relationship.
- Kennedy has denied a romantic or sexual relationship with Nuzzi, who previously acknowledged undisclosed personal communications with him and left New York magazine in 2024, and Lizza has notified her publisher alleging a passage about him is false.