US EditionOlivia Nuzzi talks love affair with RFK Jr. in new book
Olivia Nuzzi recounts an emotionally intense, largely non-physical digital affair with RFK Jr. that led to career fallout and personal turmoil in her memoir American Canto.
- On November 14, 2025, Olivia Nuzzi's memoir American Canto revealed a secret 'digital affair' and is due next month, though she does not explicitly name the man.
- During the 2024 presidential campaign, the relationship began, and after news broke in September of last year, Olivia Nuzzi largely retreated from public life to write in Malibu.
- Their exchanges included declarations and intimate details, as Olivia Nuzzi recounts Robert F. Kennedy Jr. saying `I love you` first and using psychedelics including DMT.
- Her career suffered when she was fired from New York Magazine and her engagement to journalist Ryan Lizza ended, she filed a protective order against him and has not spoken to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in about a year.
- The New York Times noted the memoir lets Nuzzi construct a world where proof is beside the point, and she recently joined Vanity Fair as its West Coast correspondent.
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Journalist Olivia Nuzzi will soon have a book published in which she discusses her alleged affair with the US Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Olivia Nuzzi Says RFK Jr. Wanted Her to Have His 'Baby' Amid Alleged Affair
Olivia Nuzzi is sharing new details of her alleged affair with former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The New York Times previewed the journalist’s new book, American Canto, in a profile published on Friday, November 14, where Nuzzi details her account of their alleged relationship. In the book, Nuzzi, 32, claims that RFK Jr., 71, told her he wanted to have her baby despite previously suggesting their relationship was “never physica…
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