Maybe not since Michael Douglas’ self-serving character in “Deadly Attraction” has a dishonest husband tried so onerous to persuade others — and seemingly his spouse — that he deserves sympathy for being the item of a girl’s alleged sexual obsession.
However that’s what surrogates of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are attempting to do for the married, 70-year-old former presidential candidate, who has embroiled himself in yet one more intercourse scandal — this time over his alleged inappropriate, “sexting” relationship with star political reporter Olivia Nuzzi.
Kennedy’s buddies instructed the New York Publish over the weekend that the 31-year-old Nuzzi was “obsessed” with the Trump-supporting Kennedy member of the family, who’s married to his third spouse, TV actor Cheryl Hines. Nuzzi tried to “set (Kennedy) up” by repeatedly sending him pornographic images of herself, even after her quantity had been blocked.
“She went after him aggressively,” a supply instructed the New York Publish. “She focused him fairly onerous. Bobby was blocking her frequently. It was somewhat scary. She was obsessive about him. I believe she nonetheless is.”
One other buddy, journalist Jessica Reed Kraus, wrote on Substack that Kennedy solely met Nuzzi as soon as, when she visited his Los Angeles-area house and went on a hike with him for a profile that was printed in New York journal in November 2023. Puck Information reported that the 2 started “sexting” with Nuzzi sending Kennedy “demure” nude images.
However Kraus stated that Kennedy blocked Nuzzi two weeks after the profile was printed as a result of she allegedly made “a flirtatious comment” to him in a textual content message. Over the following eight months, Kennedy stored her blocked, apart from a number of events, Kraus stated.
“As soon as unblocked, she bombarded him with more and more pornographic photographs and movies that he discovered troublesome to withstand,” Kraus wrote. “After transient exchanges, he would block her once more.”
“This had nothing to do with romance,” Gavin de Becker, a safety professional employed by Kennedy to take care of the Nuzzi scenario, instructed Kraus. “He was being chased by porn.”
Nuzzi has vehemently pushed again on the concept she made Kennedy the sufferer in a “Deadly Attraction” situation — during which she’s the “obsessed” different lady who’s relentlessly stalking the environmental lawyer-turned-anti-vaccine campaigner, because the New York Publish reported. Folks near Nuzzi deny that she single-handedly instigated their “digital relationship,” although they acknowledged that the connection might, at occasions, be tumultuous.
“It’s completely unfaithful that she was the aggressor, however each events have been conscious of how excessive stress and excessive threat the circumstances have been and for that motive their communication was very on and off,” an individual with data of the scenario instructed the Publish.
“Olivia’s perspective is that to name this a relationship or affair is totally inaccurate. It was at most a flirtation,” one other supply near Nuzzi stated.
In the meantime, Kennedy’s wronged spouse spent a part of the weekend letting the world assume that she wasn’t bothered by final week’s revelations that her husband of 10 years had engaged in a “private relationship” with a reporter who was overlaying the 2024 presidential race.
Hines was seen celebrating her 59th birthday throughout Milan Vogue Week, with social media photographs exhibiting her and her daughter, Catherine Younger, within the viewers on the Gucci present, Folks journal reported. Notably, Kennedy’s daughter, Kyra Kennedy, walked the runway within the present.
However the Each day Mail additionally reported that the Curb Your Enthusiasm” actor was photographed in Milan not carrying her marriage ceremony ring. In the meantime different reviews quoted her buddies, who stated they’d warned her about changing into Kennedy’s third spouse, given his popularity as a womanizer and his controversial views, the Each day Beast stated.
Kennedy additionally allegedly stored a intercourse diary in 2001 during which which he chronicled his affairs with dozens of different ladies whereas married to his second spouse, Mary Richardson Kennedy, because the New York Publish initially reported in 2013.
Kennedy’s newest scandal — following a lifetime of scandals that embrace the intercourse diary, his anti-vaccine beliefs, his brain-worm an infection and his current boast about dumping a bear-cub corpse in Central Park — broke final Thursday when his alleged “private relationship” with Nuzzi made headlines after New York journal shared a observe to readers revealing that it put her on depart.
The journal’s observe said that Nuzzi was positioned on depart after she “engaged in a private relationship with a former topic related to the 2024 marketing campaign,” with a supply confirming to CNN that Nuzzi’s “private relationship” concerned Kennedy.
The observe additionally stated that the connection was “a violation of the journal’s requirements round conflicts of curiosity and disclosures” and, if the journal had been conscious of it, Nuzzi “wouldn’t have continued to cowl the presidential marketing campaign.”
Nuzzi shared an announcement of her personal to the media, confirming that “the character of some communication” between herself and “a former reporting topic turned private.” However she added that she “didn’t instantly report on the topic nor use them as a supply” throughout that interval.
“The connection was by no means bodily however ought to have been disclosed to stop the looks of a battle,” she said. “I deeply remorse not doing so instantly and apologize to these I’ve disenchanted, particularly my colleagues at New York.”
However now Nuzzi isn’t only a reporter below hearth for violating skilled ethics, she’s additionally dealing with potential civil litigation from Kennedy, based on Kraus. In the meantime, Kraus and different Kennedy sources are basically attempting to equate her to Glenn Shut’s deranged, bunny-boiling Alex Forrest in “Deadly Attraction.”
However Each day Beast author Lily Mae Lazarus took challenge with this portrait of an obsessed Nuzzi and a beleaguered Kennedy. She stated the statements about his seeming lack of ability to withstand seduction by Nuzzi’s “pornographic” photographs mirrored the self-victimizing rhetoric he adopted in his alleged intercourse diary.
Within the thick, crimson journal obtained by the New York Publish, the son of Robert F. Kennedy and the nephew of John F. Kennedy stored observe of his sexual encounters whereas he was in his seventh yr of marriage to Mary Richardson Kennedy, the mom of 4 of his six youngsters. Kennedy not too long ago denied to the New York Publish that he stored such a diary.
However the Publish stated the diary was discovered by Mary Richardson Kennedy someday earlier than her loss of life. Vainness Honest additionally reported in July that, through the marriage, Kennedy was identified to textual content nude photographs of ladies to his buddies, and his buddies assume that Kennedy took the photographs himself.
In his diary, Kennedy would award every lady he bedded with a quantity between 1 to 10, referring to sexual acts. The quantity “10” meant he and the lady had intercourse.
However within the diary, Kennedy additionally painted himself because the sufferer of seductresses, the Each day Beast’s Lazarus stated. He used time period “mugged” if he felt he had been seduced and was, in his view of issues, an harmless, unwilling participant.
“I narrowly escaped being mugged by a double workforce of (two ladies),” he wrote in a single entry, the New York Publish reported. “It was tempting however I prayed and God gave me the power to say no.”
Kennedy would have a good time a “victory” if he didn’t succumb to the temptations of ladies, or if he obtained by means of a day with none sexual temptation, as a supply near Richardson instructed the New York Publish in 2013.
Kennedy’s diary ended up within the palms of the New York Publish after Richardson died by suicide in 2012. She and Kennedy separated in 2010 and he or she was distraught over her husband’s serial philandering and impending divorce earlier than her loss of life, the New York Publish stated.
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