September 21, 2024

"Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s brags to friends that star reporter Olivia Nuzzi had sent him intimate photos was what led the scandal to explode into the open..."

The Daily Beast reveals, in "Married RFK Jr., 70, Bragged He Had ‘Intimate’ Photos of Reporter Olivia Nuzzi, 31" (Daily Beast).
The 70-year-old scion’s boasts became known to the 31-year-old New York magazine correspondent’s boss—who confronted her over the photos.... Nuzzi repeatedly denied an affair to David Haskell, New York’s editor in chief....

Haskell told Nuzzi, 31, that he was informed by a source of his that Kennedy had bragged about his relationship with Nuzzi to others, including possessing photographs of her and that they were in a romantic relationship....

We're told only Haskell and Nuzzi were in this meeting, so either Haskell or Nuzzi (or both) decided to talk to the press. Why talk to the press other than to hurt RFK Jr. (and to drain him of the power to help Trump)?

84 comments:

doctrev said...

Imagine being such a well-known whore of a journo that your nudes won't make a minor presidential candidate risk anything to reciprocate. Yeesh.

Heartless Aztec said...

Tawdry is as tawdry does. It's so 2024.

Kevin said...

Nude photos aren’t salacious anymore. Thanks Millennials!

john mosby said...

Trump isn’t Christ to his followers - he’s David, preserving the nation from Philistines without and mad kings within. They don’t begrudge him a Batsheva or two. He isn’t Elizabeth I the Virgin Queen - he’s Henry VIII, gleefully feasting and whoring while keeping the country from descending into medieval chaos.

So of course they apply the same standard to Trump’s mighty men.

“Hey, your Kennedy can’t keep it in his pants!”

“And that’s different from your Kennedy how exactly….?”

JSM

Inga said...
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Inga said...

Why talk to the press? Maybe to let the public know that Nuzzi’s “stories” about RFK Jr. weren’t unbiased and to read her reporting with that knowledge. Also RFK seems to have had loose lips about the relationship and the pics, which would eventually become public anyway. So perhaps Haskell was trying to save the reputation of New York magazine which may have been more important to him and many others, than the reputation of RFK or the “help” he could give Trump.

Yancey Ward said...

Or this was always an operation to take Kennedy out at the appropriate time such as when early voting starts- unfortunately for the Democrats Kennedy was already out of the race.

Inga said...

Male whores like RFK Jr. get a pass.

doctrev said...

RFK Jr. would already be in handcuffs if he was half as bad as any of his progenitors, especially Joe. One great thing about his rise is making the Kennedy brand radioactive to Democrats.

Wince said...

Only fair after RFKjr showed us his tits with those eye-popping nipples.

RideSpaceMountain said...

This. Any woman under 45 has a folder filled with them on standby. 15 minutes of rizz and they're given away like beads at Mardi Gras.

Aggie said...

Explain to us what Junior' has done to earn your scorn, and this sobriquet. Use facts ! We're interested.

Aggie said...

If it's in the Daily Beast, it would never be anything but absolutely true.

Aggie said...

'Nuzzi has now been suspended, and is being investigated over her journalistic ethics by an outside party..... - There's apparently some suspicion that she might actually have some, residually, and this is concerning the executive leadership at The Beast. But dont' worry - Puck is on the case.

doctrev said...

Aggie, you're simply not smart enough to merit anything if you didn't realize that I was mildly impressed by RFK's reticence, and found Olivia Nuzzi's lack of appeal hilarious.

Inga said...

Do a Google search. I’m not going to waste my time pointing out RFK’s moral failures with his wives (possibly contributing to the suicide of his first wife when she found his sex journal) to you, not even speaking of drug use, weird behavior with dead wildlife, anti vax stance, etc. Even his own family can’t stand him.

Marcus Bressler said...

New York Magaxine has a reputation of course- It’s a shite-rag, far left extremist glossy publication that anyone with a lick of sense and propriety would not give the time of day to

AndrewV said...

As Kennedy sex scandals go this is pretty tame.

Mr Wibble said...

We're going to see RFK Jr's penis before this election is over, because 2024 was messed up enough.

Breezy said...

This is a distraction from Harris’s failure to elaborate on what she intends to do with the power she seeks. Nothing more. Fess up, Harris.

narciso said...

She went to work for weiner the second time

Eva Marie said...

“I’m not going to waste my time pointing out RFK’s moral failures with his wives (possibly contributing to the suicide of his first wife when she found his sex journal)”
O let’s not do this. Suicide is tragic. In the final analysis, the decision to commit suicide is solely the responsibility of the person who kills themselves. In this woman’s case she had attempted to kill herself before she met RFK. And in my personal experience that’s a very sad pattern. Close relatives, friends blame themselves. Then they have to cope with the innuendo by people who know nothing about the circumstances. To anyone contemplating suicide, please don’t do it. It’s devastating - especially to the family.

Aggie said...

Ah, so ! No facts, as suspected.

Iman said...
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Narayanan said...

then easy meme with Harris face moouth open

Inga said...

Oh please. If you think that some people suicide isn’t spurred on by events in their lives then you must live in lala land. It is the responsibility of the person committing suicide, but they aren’t in their right minds (duh). I was a a psych nurse for quite a few years during my 35 year career as a nurse. I learned about some very tragic circumstances that were a DIRECT cause of someone taking their lives. Remember the person who commits suicide isn’t thinking clearly. Maybe you ought to be a bit more sensitive to those who are suffering depression and have suicidal ideologies.

Eva Marie said...

I’m sensitive to anyone suffering from depression but I’m much more sensitive to the people who are left behind when someone kills themselves. In the case of RFK’s wife, she left children behind. I’m always going to feel more for their pain than for hers.

Kakistocracy said...

Olivia Nuzzi started out working for Anthony Weiner. Talk about a career going full circle.

Kakistocracy said...

No one talks about RFK Jr clear lack of judgement? Too evident to need remarking upon....

Clyde said...

Hey, if he can talk a woman almost forty years his junior out of her clothes, more power to him.

Peachy said...

The only people who care - are people like Inga. So - who gives a shit.

Wince said...

Wince said...
Only fair after RFKjr showed us his tits with those eye-popping nipples.

RFK Jr. Pasties Robert F Kennedy Push Up Muscle Man Nipple Covers by Pastease

Peachy said...

The Biden family can be as corrupt and as compromised as needed. The loyal left yawn.
RFK JR. Is not running for anything... He's just discussing a better way forward... something the lying liar who lies "price control" "Open border" left
cannot offer.

Peachy said...

Bich - No one cares but you leftists. Talking about Morals - LOL. Clinton/Biden corruption and womanizing.. all get a pass by you.

Peachy said...

yay! finally - something big we can all chew on.

Peachy said...

The left = the outrage mining operation.
Most people are over it.

Wince said...

Joe Biden Pasties: Biden Waffle Cone Nipple Covers by Pastease

Michael K said...

What "reputation" of New York Magazine ?

Drago said...

So now P-Inga is all about believing in journals...after spending several years squealing like a stuck pig that we are NOT allowed to mention Joey Bag-O-Corruption showering with and sexualizing his very own adolescent daughter....after which P-Inga called him "honorable" because the info came from Ashley Biden's authenticated diary with entries captured in real time throughout the years!

LOL

As always, give P-Inga enough time and she will contort and twist and contradict herself 70 times over even as she lectures others.

Michael K said...

Dullard, do you mean Teddy Kennedy's wife's alcoholism ?

"Oh please. If you think that some people suicide isn’t spurred on by events in their lives then you must live in lala land."

Inga said...

Hey dummy, there are MILLIONS of people like me, think about it.

BUMBLE BEE said...
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BUMBLE BEE said...

It isn't like he impregnated her nanny.

Inga said...

Hey senile asshole, has it occurred to you that the wife’s alcoholism may have occurred or been exacerbated by the behavior of RFK?

Big Mike said...

Do I understand that Nuzzi sent unsolicited nude pictures of herself to RFKJr, but we’re supposed to believe it’s his scandal? What sort of idiot actually believes that?

Oh.

As a very intelligent man once said (and I’m paraphrasing) when you ‘re rich and famous they’ll expose their pussies and invite you to grab them.

Inga said...

No, he just sexually abused her.

Readering said...

It's called news

Inga said...

“Eliza Cooney, who was once a nanny and legal intern and lived in the Kennedy family home, said Kennedy made inappropriate advances and sexually assaulted her in a pantry there in the late 1990s. She was 23 at the time. Kennedy was then 45 and married with children.”

The Guardian

Ampersand said...

The use of the verb "brag" is noteworthy. How can the headline writer discern whether it was bragging, and not merely telling. If Nuzzi sent me intimate personal photos, I would tell people about it, because of I didn't, I could be accused of complicity.

Inga said...

Eva, of course the children were terribly hurt by their mother’s suicide and of course any decent human being has a tremendous amount of sympathy for them. But I’m not going to blame a mentally ill person for not thinking rationally, as I said, they are NOT able to at that time. A bit of empathy goes a long way.

Marcus Bressler said...

Inga knows NOTHING about alcoholism to think someone else's actions caused it.

Inga said...

Ew

Inga said...

Hey dummy, there are MILLIONS people like me. Think about that.

Bruce Hayden said...

Loved the joke on the MSFT/TMI thread today, that more people died in Teddy’s car, than at TMI.

Bruce Hayden said...

And remember, his older brother (Jack) was pimping out his women (apparently including Marilyn Monroe) to Jr’s father.

Leland said...

He’s 70 and his dalliances are not new. However, she is a news journalist finding new ways to make stories.

Bruce Hayden said...

And never forget that Harris got where she is today, sleeping with a married man, many years her senior, for years.

Bruce Hayden said...

And never forget that Harris got where she is today, sleeping with a married man, many years her senior, for years.

Peachy said...

My comment above was for the cat eater.

Eva Marie said...

How about some empathy for RFK, whose father was assassinated when he was a kid and who then had to cope with an alcoholic mother as well as an alcoholic uncle. He was 9 when his uncle was assassinated and 14 when his father suffered the same fate. Let’s all have empathy for everybody and also say people are responsible for their own actions. RFK was not responsible for his wife’s suicide and you have no idea what was in her head when she killed herself.

Ambrose said...

What? He has friends?

Christopher B said...

At least Ryan Lizza is enough of a man to be offended that Oliva couldn't keep her all-access-pass activities under the radar, unlike say David French or Rick Wilson. Cuz you know if she didn't only do it for RFKjr.

Christopher B said...

Hooked your salad shooter to your keyboard .. nice!

Christopher B said...

Yeah, we're well aware there are millions of people like you. 81 millions, allegedly.

Peachy said...

Losers who don't care about their country. Inag.

William said...

I think it's safe to say that Nuzzi wasn't the one who leaked this story. It doesn't make her look good, and, leaking the story, makes her look so much worse. I understand that Haskell had to suspend her, but if he's the one that publicized the reason for her suspension, he's more of a cad than Kennedy. It's measured in microns, but I have more sympathy for Nuzzi than for any of the other actors in this drama. As Kennedy sex scandals go, this is small potatoes.......I haven't heard any scandals regarding Walz's wife. Beware the idea of October.....So far as sex scandals go, Puff Daddy is to be congratulated for having the ickiest. I bet Harvey Weinstein disapproves of his behavior. The whole concept of going to a party to watch Sean Combs sodomizing rap stars is abhorrent.

tommyesq said...

Again, she sent him photos, no indication of encouragement or reciprocation. Not an affair, just a dumb-ass fan girl dreaming of Camelot.

Witness said...

how do they know if it will.damage him or not?

Ralph L said...

Or a honey trap. Which has little power against a Kennedy male.
I suspect the Ask Not book's publication was timed to hurt Jr, too, which upsets me greatly.

Mutaman said...

Althouse
"drain him of the power to help Trump"

Help him clean the road kill out of his fridge.

Mutaman said...

Bruce Hayden
"And remember, his older brother (Jack) was pimping out his women (apparently including Marilyn Monroe) to Jr’s father. '

Absolutely no evidence of this.

walter said...

Did he shower with his daughter or go by the nickname "Pedo Pete" in his family?

typingtalker said...

Re: The 70 year old RFK Junior ...

At what age should the "Junior" be dropped when referring to recent events. Dad is dead and has been since 1968.

wordsmith said...

So, is that pronounced Nutsy? Nudesy? Newsy?

Breezy said...

Once in a while we get a reminder of the tawdriness of these so-called elite people. This must go on all the time in DC, NYC, and Nuzzi just happened to be called out by her prey. Not to excuse RFKj, but he wouldn’t have mentioned it to someone if he wanted to keep this secret….

Che Dolf said...

"Why does Hollywood think female reporters sleep with their sources?"
- Olivia Nuzzi

Marcus Bressler said...

Dropping "Junior" is a personal choice according to the sources I checked. When you have a famous name, or are the "junior" whose father was famous, it can be just a preference, or to avoid confusion: "JFK vs JFK Jr"; also "Sammy Davis, Sr vs Sammy Davis, Jr."

SweatBee said...

When it stops being his name. Martin Luther King, Junior, is still "Junior" despite also having been dead since 1968.

Rusty said...

It takes two, Inga.

Rusty said...

Inga
"Hey dummy, there are MILLIONS of people like me, think about it."
No. No there isn't. Vanishingly few in fact. Just like there are few on my side of the Bell Curve.

Rusty said...

Yeah. Biographers have written about it.

Iman said...

“Hey dummy, there are MILLIONS people like me. Think about that.”

That is a horrible thought. So there IS no hope.

Oh… the inanity.

Pooping Puppies of Pasadena said...

So...I read that Olivia sent RFJ jr naughty picures of herself, and he blocked her. she got around that by contacting him from alternative phone numbers and email addresses, saying she had important info for him, he unblocked her and talked to her. Then she sent him MORE naughty pictures. I don't see how he can be faulted for unsolicited naughty pictures.

wsw said...

Thinks she's hot stuff. No.