What began as a salacious sexting affair between former New York magazine correspondent Olivia Nuzzi and Human Health Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — then a candidate in the 2024 presidential election — has spiraled out into an industry-rattling scandal that continues to expand its blast radius.

From her supposed seclusion in Malibu a year after news of her relationship with Kennedy broke, Nuzzi is trying to cast the fallout of her tryst with Kennedy as a cosmic reaction to the emotional turmoil within American politics, and herself.

A fizzy New York Times profile featuring softly lit photos of Nuzzi in grassy California dunes and driving a convertible directly compared her to something out of the Lana Del Rey cinematic universe of Born To Die ingenues crooning to thei

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