Olivia Nuzzi has yet one more jaw-dropping love curiosity, we hear.
Earlier this week, the Standing publication reported that the scandal-scarred journalist was noticed with Vice co-founder Shane Smith, sparking rumors that Nuzzi — who misplaced not one however two jobs amid revelations about her alleged affair with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — would possibly begin working for Vice.
However Web page Six realized they have been experimenting with extra than simply editorial positions.
“It’s romantic,” choked up an insider.
Apparently the 2 met in April and “it began instantly,” a supply added.
Nuzzi had been a Washington correspondent for New York Journal, however was positioned on depart pending an investigation after it was revealed that she had developed an intimate relationship with Kennedy throughout his interview through the 2024 election marketing campaign. (Kennedy claimed they’d solely met as soon as for an interview.)
Web page Six revealed shortly after that the couple had a protracted and intense phone relationship and had even instructed one another they have been in love.
Her then-fiancé, now former Politico author Ryan Lizza, wrote a bamboozling account of the episode, through which he additionally steered she dated a lot older ESPN author Keith Olbermann and Sen. Mark Sanford. (Neither Sandford nor Nuzzi responded to the declare.)
Nuzzi, in the meantime, wrote her calmly learn memoir, “American Canto.”
Self-importance Honest — which controversially employed her as a West Coast editor — let her contract expire.
We’re now instructed that Nuzzi and Smith – the deeply controversial co-founder of Vice, which began as a nihilistic underground hipster journal, grew to become an institution large, went bankrupt and is now getting again collectively – have been noticed hanging out in Malibu, the place they each stay.
Vice insiders instructed us that Nuzzi wasn’t being thought-about for a job and that Smith was “a single man,” suggesting he is free to have private relationships. Nuzzi and Smith didn’t reply to us.