Political journalist Ryan Lizza has fired off a letter to publishing large Simon & Schuster claiming that his ex, Olivia Nuzzi, lied in her hotly anticipated memoir by claiming that he confessed to an affair with a Democrat aide.
Web page Six has seen an snippet from an advance copy of Olivia Nuzzi's “American Canto” — which delves into her personal scandalous alleged affair with then-presidential-candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — during which she says that after her personal infidelity was uncovered, Lizza advised her that “he was sleeping with a lady who labored for the Democratic presidential marketing campaign.”
“When he advised me this, I used to be relieved; whereas nonetheless a betrayal, my conduct was not fairly so egregious in mild of this info,” she writes within the guide to be printed by Simon & Schuster imprint Avid Reader, “I had been her and so I didn't blame her; I checked out her picture and remarked half in jest that she was the perfect individual with whom to have dedicated such sins: She was fairly sufficient that I used to be not offended and never so fairly that I used to be offended.”
Nuzzi — who struck up the alleged romance whereas protecting RFK Jr's candidacy for New York Journal — provides that her “calmness appeared to ignite additional rage [in Lizza].”
“The disclosure was made to harm me,” Nuzzi, 32, writes, “That it didn't succeed was one other harm. I pitied him.”
However we're advised that when he discovered this week that Nuzzi made that declare within the guide — attributable to be launched on December 2 — Lizza, 51, wrote to Avid Reader's writer, Ben Loehnen, and the guide's editor, Jofie Ferrari-Adler, claiming that the allegations had been unfaithful.
“In accordance with excerpts I've reviewed, Olivia Nuzzi consists of the next false and defamatory passage about me in her forthcoming guide,” Lizza wrote in a letter to Loehnen and Ferrari-Adler seen by Web page Six.
He goes on to assert that the “whole” confessional scene within the guide “is made up.”
“It by no means occurred… I used to be by no means contacted about this false and defamatory allegation,” he wrote.
“I've recordings of the conversations between me and Olivia in the course of the related interval in 2024… and this purported scene doesn't exist on any recording,” he added, “It's a lie.”
Nuzzi has previouly made beautiful allegations about Lizza which he has staunchly denied. She utilized for a safety order in opposition to him in October 2024, within the days after the scandal broke about her relationship with RFK Jr., claiming that Lizza had blackmailed, harassed and survielled her. When she withdrew the appliance the following month earlier than getting into entrance of a decide, Lizza — then a reporter with Politico — stated that Nuzzi had “taken the one course out there to her and withdrawn her fabricated claims.”
Since Nuzzi — who left New York Journal amid the fallout from the affair, and has since signed on as Self-importance Truthful's West Coast Editor — started doing promo for the guide, Lizza has claimed in his Telos newsletter that Nuzzi additionally had a relationship with former presidential candidate Mark Sanford.
Web page Six reported final yr that Nuzzi had a chronic romance with the Camelot scion, thought they solely had cellphone intercourse and we by no means physcially intimate in individual. In accordance with a story about the book in the New York Times, Nuzzi seems to substantiate that account within the guide, these she by no means mentions Kennedy by title.
Kennedy has denied the connection, saying they solely met as soon as when she was engaged on a profile about him.
A rep for Nuzzi declined to remark. Loehnen and Ferrari-Adler didn't instantly get again to our request for remark. Lizza declined to remark.
