Vanity Fair said it’s parting ways with journalist Olivia Nuzzi, whose relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has generated headlines for months.
“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,” the parties said in a joint statement Friday.
Nuzzi, 32, began working earlier this year as the West Coast editor for the magazine, which last month published an excerpt from her new memoir.
Her contract with Vanity Fair came after her departure from New York Magazine last year shortly after she admitted to a “personal relationship” with Kennedy, who she had profiled for the publication when he was a presidential hopeful.
New York Magazine said that an investigation found “no inaccuracies nor evidence of bias” in her work.
On Tuesday, Nuzzi’s book, “American Canto,” which includes details about her relationship with an unnamed politician, was released.
In the lead-up to the book’s publication, Nuzzi’s former fiancé, political journalist Ryan Lizza, published allegations challenging Nuzzi’s professional ethics.
A spokesperson for Kennedy has denied he ever met with Nuzzi for anything but an interview for a New York Magazine story. He “only met Olivia Nuzzi once in his life for an interview she requested, which yielded a hit piece,” the spokesperson said last year.
Austin Mullen contributed.
