Perhaps not since Michael Douglas's selfish role in Fatal Attraction saw an unfaithful husband try so doggedly to persuade others – including, apparently, his wife – that he deserved sympathy for being the article of a lady's supposed sexual obsession.
But that's exactly what surrogates for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. try to do for the married 70-year-old former presidential candidate, who’s already embroiled in one other sex scandal – this time over his allegedly inappropriate “sexting” relationship with star political reporter Olivia Nuzzi.
Kennedy's friends told the New York Post over the weekend that Nuzzi, 31, was “obsessed” with the Trump-supporting Kennedy member of the family, who’s married for the third time to television actress Cheryl Hines. Nuzzi tried to “set a trap for Kennedy” by repeatedly sending him pornographic photos of herself, even after her number was blocked.
“She came at him aggressively,” a source told the New York Post. “She targeted him pretty hard. Bobby kept blocking her. It was a little scary. She was obsessed with him. I think she still is.”
Another friend, journalist Jessica Reed Kraus, wrote on Substack that Kennedy met Nuzzi just once, when she visited his home within the Los Angeles area and went climbing with him for a portrait published in New York Magazine in November 2023. Puck News reported that the 2 began “sexting” and Nuzzi sent Kennedy “modest” nude photos.
However, Kraus said Kennedy blocked Nuzzi two weeks after the profile was published because she allegedly made “a flirtatious remark” to him in a text message. Over the following eight months, Kennedy blocked her with few exceptions, Kraus said.
“After unblocking him, she bombarded him with increasingly pornographic photos and videos that he found difficult to resist,” Kraus wrote. “After a brief exchange, he blocked her again.”
“It had nothing to do with romance,” Gavin de Becker, a security expert hired by Kennedy to handle the Nuzzi case, told Kraus. “He was being chased by porn.”
Nuzzi has vehemently rejected the concept she made Kennedy the victim of a “fatal attraction” scenario – wherein she is the “obsessed” other woman who relentlessly pursues the environmental lawyer turned anti-vaccine activist. because the New York Post reported. People near Nuzzi deny that she single-handedly initiated her “digital relationship,” but admit that the connection can have been turbulent at times.
“It is absolutely untrue that she was the aggressor, but both parties were aware of the high pressure and high risk of the circumstances and because of that, their communication was very erratic,” an individual aware of the situation told The Post.
“In Olivia's opinion, it is completely inaccurate to speak of a relationship or affair. At most it was a flirtation,” said one other source near Nuzzi.
Meanwhile, Kennedy's cheating wife spent the weekend leading the world to consider that she was not upset by last week's revelations that her husband of 10 years had a “personal relationship” with a reporter covering the 2024 presidential election.
Hines celebrated her 59th birthday during Milan Fashion Week. Photos on social media show her and her daughter Catherine Young within the audience on the Gucci show. People magazine reported. Notably, Kennedy's daughter Kyra Kennedy walked the runway on the show.
But The Daily Mail also reported that the “Drop It, Larry!” actress was photographed in Milan without wearing her wedding ring. Other reports quoted her friends as saying that they had warned her against becoming Kennedy's third wife, given his repute as a womanizer and his controversial views. The Daily Beast said.
Kennedy also reportedly kept a sex diary in 2001 wherein he recorded his affairs with dozens of other women during his marriage to his second wife, Mary Richardson Kennedy. because the New York Post originally reported in 2013.
Kennedy's latest scandal – after a string of scandals in his life that include the sex diary, his anti-vaccination stance, his infection with brain worms and his recent boast about disposing of the body of a bear cub in Central Park – erupted last Thursday when his alleged “personal relationship” with Nuzzi made headlines after New York Magazine sent a note to readers saying she had been placed on leave due to it.
The magazine's note said Nuzzi was placed on leave after she “entered into a personal relationship with a former individual relevant to the 2024 campaign,” with a source confirming to CNN that Nuzzi's “personal relationship” involved Kennedy.
The memo also said the connection was “a violation of the magazine's standards regarding conflicts of interest and disclosures” and that if the magazine had known about it, Nuzzi “would not have continued to cover the presidential campaign.”
Nuzzi issued her own statement to the media, confirming that “the nature of the communication” between her and “a former reporting subject had become personal.” She added, nonetheless, that in that point she “neither reported directly on the subject nor used it as a source.”
“The relationship was never physical, but it should have been disclosed to avoid the appearance of a conflict,” she said. “I deeply regret not doing so immediately and apologize to those I have disappointed, especially my colleagues in New York.”
But now Nuzzi will not be only a reporter under fire for violating skilled ethics, but, in response to Kraus, she can be facing a civil suit from Kennedy. Meanwhile, Kraus and other sources at Kennedy try to essentially equate her with Glenn Close's crazy, ugly Alex Forrest in Fatal Attraction.
But Daily Beast author Lily Mae Lazarus had an issue with this portrait of an obsessed Nuzzi and a beleaguered Kennedy. She said the statements about his apparent inability to withstand the seduction of Nuzzi's “pornographic” photos reflected the self-critical rhetoric he employed in his alleged sex diary.
In the thick red diary, which the New York Post has obtained, the son of Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of John F. Kennedy recorded his sexual encounters throughout the seventh 12 months of his marriage to Mary Richardson Kennedy, the mother of 4 of his six children. Kennedy recently denied to the New York Post that he had kept such a diary.
However, the Post claimed that the diary was found sometime before Mary Richardson Kennedy's death. Vanity Fair also reported in July that Kennedy was known to send nude photos of girls to his friends throughout the marriage, and that his friends consider Kennedy took the photos himself.
In his diary, Kennedy assigned each woman he slept with a number between 1 and 10 that referred to sexual intercourse. The number “10” meant that he and the girl had sexual activity.
But in his diary, Kennedy also portrayed himself as a victim of seductresses, the Daily Beast's Lazarus said. He used the term “ambushed” when he felt seduced and was, from his perspective, an innocent, unwilling participant.
“I narrowly escaped being attacked by two women,” he wrote in a single entry, the New York Post reported. “It was tempting, but I prayed and God gave me the strength to say no.”
Kennedy would rejoice a “victory” if he didn’t succumb to women’s temptations or survived a day without sexual temptation, a source near Richardson told the New York Post in 2013.
Kennedy's diary ended up within the hands of the New York Post after Richardson committed suicide in 2012. She and Kennedy had separated in 2010, and he or she was distraught over her husband's repeated infidelities and impending divorce before her death, the New York Post reported.
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