Journalist and author Olivia Nuzzi will leave her role as the West Coast editor of Vanity Fair magazine, the New York Times reports.
Nuzzi, who has come under fire for her past relationship with Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., joined the magazine in September. She previously worked for New York magazine as its Washington, D.C., correspondent but parted ways with the publication in October 2024, after her relationship with Kennedy—a strictly digital romance—was revealed by journalist Oliver Darcy.
Last week, Avid Reader Press published Nuzzi’s American Canto, a memoir in which she writes about her relationship with Kennedy, although she never uses his name, referring to him only as “the Politician.” The book was universally panned by critics, with Scaachi Koul of Slate writing, “Historians will study how bad this book is,” and a reviewer for Kirkus calling it “clumsy” and “disjointed.”
Ryan Lizza, Nuzzi’s ex-fiancé, recently claimed in a newsletter that Nuzzi had also had an affair with Republican politician Mark Sanford. Nuzzi called the allegation “fan fiction-slash-revenge porn.”
Publisher Condé Nast said in a statement, “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.”
Nuzzi said, “I love Vanity Fair, and this decision was made out of respect for the staff and faith in the future of the publication.”
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
