A former DC energy couple continues its ferocious explosion.
Olivia Nuzzi, the star reporter whose FaceTime affair with RFK Jr. was sensationally uncovered in September, had requested a courtroom for a restraining order in opposition to her ex-fiancé, fellow Beltway journo Ryan Lizza.
Nuzzi, who till final month was New York Journal’s DC correspondent, claimed that Lizza had “explicitly threatened to make public private details about me to destroy my life, profession, and fame.”
She additionally claimed that he had tried to blackmail her into staying with him.
However on Tuesday, she withdrew her utility, along with her legal professional saying that she had “concluded she is going to garner the best safety by disengaging from this course of,” and claiming that she’s “more and more nervous for her bodily security and well-being.”
However Lizza fumed in an announcement to Web page Six that Nuzzi had merely been “shamelessly [using] litigation with false and defamatory allegations as a public relations technique.”
“On the eve of a [court hearing to make the order permanent] at which she knew her lies can be uncovered, she has taken the one course out there to her and withdrawn her fabricated claims,” Politico Playbook author Lizza stated.
Nuzzi started a relationship with the previous presidential candidate (and husband to “Curb Your Enthusiasm” star Cheryl Hines) after profiling him in October final yr. As Web page Six has beforehand reported, the pair had an intense romance during which they’d “unimaginable” FaceTime intercourse and even advised one another they had been in love, however by no means really met in individual, sources stated.
(Kennedy — who dropped out of the race to endorse Donald Trump and is now heading the president-elect’s “Make America Wholesome Once more” program — has denied the affair.)
The previous Each day Beast phenom was placed on depart by New York Journal in September after editors found the affair, although it stated on the time that an preliminary evaluate had discovered no inaccuracies or bias in her work.
In October, the journal launched an announcement saying that an unbiased evaluate, “reached the identical conclusion,” however that “however, the journal and Nuzzi agreed that the most effective course ahead is to half methods.”
In his Tuesday assertion, Lizza, who proposed to Nuzzi in 2022, stated: “Olivia lied to me for nearly a yr. She lied to her editors. She lied to her readers. She lied to her colleagues. She lied to reporters. And she or he lied to the choose on this case.”
He added, “I stated I might defend myself in opposition to her lies vigorously and efficiently, and I’m absolutely ready to take action. However for now, I’m happy this matter is closed.”
Responding to Lizza’s assertion, Nuzzi’s lawyer, Ari Micha Wilkenfeld advised us, “Ms. Nuzzi has little interest in preventing a public relations battle.”
