New York Journal put Washington correspondent Olivia Nuzzi on go away after studying she allegedly engaged in a romantic relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a supply advised The Hollywood Reporter.
The journal shared in an announcement with THR on Thursday, “Just lately our Washington Correspondent Olivia Nuzzi acknowledged to the journal’s editors that she had engaged in a private relationship with a former topic related to the 2024 marketing campaign whereas she was reporting on the marketing campaign, a violation of the journal’s requirements round conflicts of curiosity and disclosures.”
“Had the journal been conscious of this relationship, she wouldn’t have continued to cowl the presidential marketing campaign,” the assertion continued. “An inside assessment of her printed work has discovered no inaccuracies nor proof of bias. She is at the moment on go away from the journal, and the journal is conducting a extra thorough third-party assessment. We remorse this violation of our readers’ belief.”
New York Journal didn’t identify Kennedy, however folks acquainted with the matter advised Standing‘ Oliver Darcy that Nuzzi didn’t proactively disclose her alleged relationship with Kennedy and that the journal solely lately realized of it. Darcy reported that the alleged relationship began across the new yr, after Nuzzi’s November 2023 profile on the previous presidential candidate.
“Earlier this yr, the character of some communication between myself and a former reporting topic turned private,” Nuzzi mentioned in an announcement. “Throughout that point, I didn’t instantly report on the topic nor use them as a supply. The connection was by no means bodily however ought to have been disclosed to forestall the looks of a battle. I deeply remorse not doing so instantly and apologize to these I’ve disenchanted, particularly my colleagues at New York.”
Nuzzi is one thing of a political reporting wunderkind, having dropped out of Fordham College to cowl politics for The Day by day Beast. (One yr earlier, in 2013, Nuzzi additionally made the information when she wrote tell-alls of her time as an intern within the Anthony Weiner mayoral marketing campaign that impressed expletive-laden quotes from the marketing campaign’s communications director to Speaking Factors Memo.) Nuzzi rose to prominence throughout Donald Trump’s presidency for her characteristic writing and her sourcing within the Trump White Home. Within the aftermath of the assassination try towards Trump in July, Trump let Nuzzi examine his injured ear, which grew to become the lede of a characteristic story she penned for New York Journal.
Final month, Kennedy halted his third-party bid for president and endorsed Trump. He has been married to actress Cheryl Hines since 2014.
The Hollywood Reporter has reached out to Nuzzi and Kennedy for feedback.