Overview
- Condé Nast confirmed it is assessing Nuzzi’s past conduct and has not announced any decision about her job as Vanity Fair’s West Coast editor.
- Ryan Lizza alleged in a Substack installment that Nuzzi began a relationship with former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford months after profiling him in 2019.
- Vanity Fair said it was taken by surprise by the claims, which surfaced the same week the magazine ran an excerpt from Nuzzi’s memoir, American Canto.
- Nuzzi’s lawyer, Ari Wilkenfeld, contested the broader allegations, saying her book addresses the only instance of an improper relationship with a subject.
- Nuzzi was dismissed by New York magazine in 2024 over a close personal relationship involving Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a claim Kennedy has publicly denied.