Politico reporter who was previously engaged to Olivia Nuzzi will no longer cover RFK Jr.

Politico reporter Ryan Lizza announced that he would no longer cover Robert F. Kennedy Jr. because his former fiancée Olivia Nuzzi allegedly had a “personal relationship” with the 2024 presidential candidate.

In Friday's Politico Playbook, Lizza said, “Because of my connection to this story through my ex-fiancée, my editors and I have agreed that I will not participate in any coverage of Kennedy in the Playbook or elsewhere at POLITICO.”

Lizza and Nuzzi became engaged in 2022 but split sometime earlier this year, according to the New York Post.

Politico's announcement came shortly after Nuzzi, a star reporter for New York Magazine, was placed on leave by her employer over her alleged relationship with Kennedy.

Bloomberg has canceled the PR broadcast of Olivia Nuzzi's show after backlash from the left following her scathing Biden story.

Politico reporter Ryan Lizza, here with his ex-fiancée Olivia Nuzzi, announced that he agreed not to cover RFK Jr. after Nuzzi revealed that she had a “personal relationship” with the former 2024 presidential candidate. (Getty Images)

The magazine issued a statement Thursday evening saying that Nuzzi had revealed to them that she had “a personal relationship” with a “former individual relevant to the 2024 campaign.” Media blog Status reported that the person was Kennedy.

“Nuzzi admitted to the magazine's editors that during her coverage of the 2024 election campaign, she had entered into a personal relationship with a former subject relevant to the 2024 campaign, in violation of the magazine's standards regarding conflicts of interest and disclosures,” New York Magazine said. said in a statement.

Nuzzi, the magazine's Washington correspondent, has given several high-profile interviews as part of her coverage of the presidential election, including Kennedy, whom she wrote a post End of last year.

NY Mag said it found no evidence of bias in Nuzzi's past coverage of Kennedy, but the magazine would not have allowed her to continue covering the 2024 campaign if it had known about the relationship. Kennedy suspended his 2024 independent campaign last month and endorsed former President Trump.

NEW YORK MAG PUTS REPORTER OLIVIA NUZZI ON LEAVE DUE TO ALLEGED ‘PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP’ WITH RFK JR.

New York Mag's Washington correspondent Olivia Nuzzi reportedly had a “personal relationship” with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. while covering the presidential election. (Photo by Anna Friemoth, courtesy of Olivia Nuzzi; Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)

“She is currently on leave from the journal and the journal is conducting a more thorough third-party review,” the statement continued. “We regret this breach of trust from our readers.”

Nuzzi published a statement On Thursday evening, she said she never had a physical relationship with her former reporter, but had “personal” communication. She did not mention Kennedy's name.

“Earlier this year, communications between me and a former reporting officer became personal,” she said. “I did not report directly on the individual nor use him or her as a source. The relationship was never physical but should have been disclosed to avoid the appearance of a conflict. I deeply regret not doing so immediately and apologize to those I disappointed, especially my colleagues in New York.”

A spokesman for Kennedy also denied that there had ever been a physical relationship between the two.

“Mr. Kennedy met Olivia Nuzzi only once in his life for an interview she requested, which resulted in a defamatory article,” a Kennedy spokesman said. Fox News.

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Brian Flood of Fox News contributed to this article.