Olivia Nuzzi, near the center of power at the White House Correspondents' Dinner in Washington in 2023. Stefani Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images New York —

The news that Olivia Nuzzi had a book coming out was, in political and journalistic circles, the sensation of the fall season.

In October of 2024, Nuzzi had lost her post at New York Magazine, where she’d been a star profiler of politicians, when it turned out she had been having an affair (passionate, but purportedly never physically consummated) with one of her profile subjects: the independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Afterward, Kennedy went on to become the secretary of Health and Human Services for Donald Trump, while Nuzzi went into what journalistic cliche and short attention spans decided to call “exile.

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