Olivia Nuzzi and Vanity Fair are parting ways as the journalist faces several new allegations about her affair with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and another political figure.
“Vanity Fair and Olivia Nuzzi have mutually agreed, in the best interest of the magazine, to let her contract expire at the end of the year,” a rep for Nuzzi and a spokesperson for Vanity Fair confirmed in a joint statement to Page Six on Friday.
The “American Canto” author, 32, agreed to join the publication as its West Coast editor in September — almost a year after she left her previous employer, New York Magazine, due to the scandal.
She was hired by Mark Guiducci, marking the new editorial chief’s first big hire. However, a source told Page Six that Vogue icon Anna Wintour was the only person who had the final say on her onboarding or firing within Condé Nast.
“There isn’t anything that Anna doesn’t overwrite or reinforce when it comes to their overall P&L [profit and loss statement],” one source said.
Earlier this week, Nuzzi made headlines as several questioned her hiring after her ex-fiancé, former Politico journalist Ryan Lizza, unleashed several bombshell accusations about her conduct as a journalist.
He shared new details regarding her sexting scandal with RFK Jr., 71, claiming that she compared the political figure to fictional boxer Rocky Balboa and gave him fashion advice in an alleged “strategy memo.”
In a follow-up newsletter, he also accused her of cheating on him with ex-South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford.
In the newsletter item, Lizza claimed he discovered that his then-live-in girlfriend was having a physical affair with Sanford, who at the time was a GOP presidential candidate they were both covering.
Page Six has reached out to Sanford for comment.
Nuzzi’s departure comes as no shock to some. Sources recently told Page Six that they wouldn’t be surprised if the author was ousted before she’d even had a chance to pick up her Condé Nast laptop.
“It looks like they are getting rid of her,” one source said, while another added, “I will not be surprised if they drop Olivia.”
Another insider shared, “Even before this broke, she didn’t have a single story in the next two issues of the magazine. She never picked up her Condé Nast computer, never came to a meeting, never responded to an email she was cc’d on.”
In addition to her ex’s hefty allegations, several staffers were skeptical about Nuzzi’s future with the company after critics negatively slammed her book, “American Canto,” in which the former New York Magazine writer opens up about her scandalous alleged affair with the current secretary of Health and Human Services.
In one excerpt of the book, which was published by the New York Times last month, she claims Kennedy told her he “wanted her to have his baby” and promised “to take a bullet for her.”
Vanity Fair published an excerpt from her book, and “everyone was grossed out,” a source said.
“Why give her a job? [Publishing the excerpt] didn’t break the way they expected. They thought the excerpt was going to be received totally different,” the first source said.
Nuzzi reportedly met Kennedy — who is married to actress Cheryl Hines — when she interviewed him for New York Magazine. After which, the two allegedly engaged in a year-long digital affair.
A Kennedy spokesperson has denied the alleged affair, however, and claimed Kennedy “only met Olivia Nuzzi once in his life for an interview she requested, which yielded a hit piece.”
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