Almost every woman in RFK Jr.’s life will eventually get run over.
Take the case of Olivia Nuzzi, the star political reporter whose sexting relationship with Kennedy led him to smear her as a crazy woman and a whore, just as Bill and Hillary Clinton did with Monica Lewinsky and many other women.
“She pursued him aggressively,” an RFK Jr. source said of Nuzzi this weekend. “She came at him very hard. … It was a little scary. She was obsessed with him. I think she still is.”
Subtle.
Yes, this lifelong serial womanizer and adulterer — who was caught by his second wife, Mary Richardson, with the contact information of at least 43 alleged mistresses on his mobile phone, not to mention voluminous lists of other women in his infamous “sex diaries” — somehow fell passively victim to this deranged, sex-crazed stalker.
Almost every woman in RFK Jr.’s life will eventually get run over.
Take the case of Olivia Nuzzi, the star political reporter whose sexting relationship with Kennedy led him to smear her as crazy and a whore.
Nuzzi is 31 years old. She is currently a respected and award-winning journalist for New York magazine, where she has worked since 2017.
You don’t get that high that fast—in an incredibly cutthroat industry, no less—without being talented, smart, socially adept, and decidedly sane.
Nuzzi has admitted he had a personal, “non-physical” relationship with Kennedy, which began after she profiled him for the magazine last November, and that he sent her nude photographs. He has since been on leave, pending an investigation.
Was such a relationship a conflict of interest? Yes, without a doubt.
But was Nuzzi’s online romance really any worse than our traditional media’s metaphorical bedfellow Kamala Harris?
As the magazine’s Washington correspondent, Nuzzi has not covered RFK Jr. since that initial profile, nor used him as a source.
Yet we have a media that throws softballs at Harris, tilts the presidential debate in her favor, throws word salad at her, and insists her nonsense makes sense.
Here’s what Harris was saying to Oprah Winfrey during last Thursday’s embarrassing online event: “Let’s stand together with the character that we’re so proud of, who we are.”
Julia Roberts applauded, Meryl Streep practically cried, and Oprah introduced Harris as a presidential candidate, despite not offering any policy proposals or explaining what her campaign is based on, what she believes in, or what she will do once she takes office.
But let’s hang Olivia Nuzzi in the public square!
Where is the left in all this? There is nothing they like more than defending a woman who has been turned into a scapegoat.
The lifelong serial womaniser was caught by his second wife, Mary Richardson (pictured), with the contact details of 43 alleged mistresses.
Nuzzi is 31 years old. She is currently a respected and award-winning journalist for New York magazine, where she has worked since 2017.
Nuzzi, on the other hand, betrayed the cause by writing a scathing and truthful article this summer acknowledging that the entire White House press corps knew about Biden’s cognitive decline all along.
He also recently published a profile of Trump that took him seriously, both on him and on the assassination attempt he suffered in July. The horror.
And so RFK Jr., who was public enemy number one while he was in the presidential race and hurt the Democrats’ chances, is now the victim here.
Recall how RKF Jr.’s uncle, Ted Kennedy, gave up all hope of becoming president, not because he let his campaign aide, Mary Jo Kopechne, die in three feet of water after driving his car off a bridge in Chappaquiddick, but because he failed to properly answer this question, posed by journalist Roger Mudd in 1979: “Why do you want to be president?”
Ted was verbose and rambling.
“It is imperative that this country moves forward,” he said, “but it cannot remain stagnant, otherwise it will go backwards.”
Ted Kennedy walked so Kamala Harris could run, literally.
Uncle Ted was also a paterfamilias to RFK Jr. and all the young, fatherless Kennedys, and he provided indelible examples of how to treat women: Kopechne, who could have been saved; his wife, Joan, whom he drove to alcoholism with his incessant lies and deceptions; and the young waitress he sexually assaulted in a D.C. restaurant, to name just a few.
As is Kennedy tradition, RFK Jr. works straight from the family playbook: When a woman becomes uncomfortable, call her crazy.
If she refuses to leave, tell the media she’s a slut, a groupie, a liar, a gold digger, a drug addict. Threaten her.
Nuzzi declined my request for comment and has long remained silent, even as she is losing everything: her fiancé Ryan Lizza has publicly dumped her. New York magazine will surely fire her.
Nuzzi declined my request for comment and has long remained silent, even as she is losing everything: her fiancé Ryan Lizza (pictured) has publicly dumped her. New York magazine will surely fire her.
But rather than let this story die, rather than leave his virtual romance partner with a shred of dignity, RFK Jr. has grown even more vengeful, threatening Nuzzi with lawsuits, potentially civil and criminal.
Criminal!
Poor Bobby. According to a mutual friend of the two, Nuzzi “bombarded” him with “increasingly pornographic photos and videos.”
“Haunted by pornography,” says Gavin de Becker, a major donor to his campaign.
Bobby Kennedy Jr., whose response to a sexual assault allegation published by Vanity Fair this summer was, “I’m not a church boy,” Persecuted by porn.
It sounds exactly like the “assaults” he recounted in his sex diaries exposed by the New York Post after Mary’s suicide in 2012, all those lascivious women unable to control themselves around the irresistible RFK Jr., with the maggot in his brain and his penchant for dismembering dead animals.
Roadkill is the ultimate metaphor for any woman in this guy’s orbit.
Her group also claims that Nuzzi was constantly “tricking” him into unblocking her. This makes no sense. If he had blocked her, how would he have seen her messages asking him to unblock her?
And if he was so afraid—if Nuzzi had gone full Fatal Attraction, as he wanted us to believe—why engage in any kind of contact with her?
Far more credible, in my view, are reports that RFK Jr. bragged so openly and so frequently about Nuzzi’s nudity that word reached his boss.
His version? He barely knows it.
“Mr. Kennedy only met Olivia Nuzzi once in his life, for an interview she requested,” his spokesman said, “which resulted in a sensational article.”
Poor Bobby again!
Kennedy men have done this with countless girlfriends, aides, wives, lovers: Jackie Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Carolyn Bessette, Ted’s wife Joan, Bobby’s wife Mary.
When Bobby was going through a divorce with Mary in 2012, he was also dating his current wife Cheryl Hines, who took to Twitter to brag about all the fun she was having with Bobby and Mary’s kids.
When Bobby was going through a divorce with Mary in 2012, he was also dating his current wife Cheryl Hines (pictured), who took to Twitter to brag about all the fun she was having with Bobby and Mary’s kids.
He then defied a court order requiring him to pay Mary, the mother of four of his children, $20,000 a month. He cut off her credit cards, leaving her to beg other mothers at school for $20 for gas or food.
After she committed suicide in his barn, he buried her with great fanfare in the Kennedy family plot, and then, a week later, secretly exhumed her in the middle of the night and reburied her far away and alone.
Just one day after her suicide, he went to the New York Times and said that Mary had been deeply disturbed. I wonder why.
“I often don’t know how he made it through the day,” she said. “He spent a lot of his life in a lot of pain.”
And this selfish statement, in his eulogy: “I know I did everything I could to help her.”
Hines, despite reports that Bobby was cheating on her a week before their wedding, married him anyway in 2014.
Hey, at least she’s getting the full experience of being a Kennedy wife now.
As for Nuzzi, he is not a victim of anyone, but he is also almost 40 years younger than one of our most famous and charismatic politicians, who has, without a doubt, once again abused his power.
Incidentally, Nuzzi’s ex-fiancé and fellow journalist Ryan Lizza was fired from The New Yorker for alleged sexual misconduct, which he denied. He has since joined Politico.
Jeffrey Toobin, a legal analyst and writer for the same magazine, was fired in 2020 for masturbating during a Zoom meeting. He has since kept his happy position at CNN.
If there is justice, Olivia Nuzzi will get a second chance.