She’s hot and (seemed to be) talented, but we’ve now learned that Olivia Nuzzi is quite the wild child as well.
We know that all women have at least a little crazy in them. Some of course have a lot. And then there’s Olivia Nuzzi levels of crazy.
Olivia seemed to have it all. She’s hot and glamourous, and she had a killer political media job with The New Yorker that gave her access to the most powerful people in the world. She got her start and gained notoriety when she was an intern with the Anthony Weiner campaign. Then it all began to unravel when she met crazy RFK Jr. Little did we know that this was just one of many wild relationships she had that could have derailed her career.
We’ve learned a couple of things about Olivia. When she falls in love, she falls in love hard. Sort of like a Stage 5 Clinger type. She also has a thing for older men (which we have no problem with!) and she likes the sugar baby lifetyle (more on that later).
Let’s go through some of the highlights of this story.
My favorite part goes back to an old tweet from Olivia about the Zoe Barnes character (played by Kate Mara) in “House of Cards.” Olivia self-righteously asks, “Why does Hollywood think female reporters sleep with their sources?” Now we’ll save that deeper conversation for another time (men and women both use sex to get ahead), but the hypocrisy here is hilarious! As we’ll see, Olivia doesn’t seem to be shy about falling in love with and/or sleeping with sources and others in her industry. Maybe she loves sex. That’s great! But don’t get on your high horse and then casually toss aside any journalistic ethics you pretend to have.
So last year, we found out that Olivia’s relationship with Ryan Lizza fell apart because she fell in love with RFK Jr. while covering his pathetic presidential campaign. RFK Jr. is a nut, but of course Olivia wrote a profile that was a little more flattering than one would expect from an unbiased journalist. When the inappropriate relationship came to light, Olivia lost her job at The New Yorker and basically left the public spotlight.
She only recently emerged again, as it was annouced that she was named with West Coast editor of Vanity Fair and announcing her new book about the RFK Jr. mess. All of this cause quite a stir, espcially when excerpts from the book were released . . . let’s just say the bizarre prose made her sound even crazier.
But that was just the start, as Ryan Lizza wasn’t about to stay quiet. He released a bombshell story on his new Substack reounting how he found out about the affair, but with a twist . . . he revealed another affair from 2020 when Olivia fell in love with Mark Sanford after doing a profile on him!! A side note in this story also revealed how Olivia met Keith Olbermann when she was 18 and basically became his sugar baby (way to go Keith!!).
Jeff Blehar summed up how many in the Washington press world felt about this story:
Olivia has brought all this on herself. We have no issues with her hooking up with anyone, including older men. We love sugar babies. But she really stepped in it when she let these affairs get in the way of her career as a journalist. What a shame.
