The internet has erupted with brutal memes in the wake of a sexting scandal between Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and journalist Olivia Nuzzi.
The affair allegedly began in 2023, when the star political reporter visited Kennedy’s $7 million California home to write a feature article for New York Magazine.
At the time, the 31-year-old was engaged to Politico’s chief Washington correspondent, Ryan Lizza, 50.
In a statement to DailyMail.com, Nuzzi admitted that ‘the nature of some communication between myself and a former reporting subject turned personal.’
Meanwhile, her editors confirmed that the other party was a ‘former subject relevant to the 2024 campaign.’
Users on social media aren’t going easy on the journalist and former presidential hopeful.
The son of the late Robert F. Kennedy is married to actress Cheryl Hines, best known for her role as Larry David’s wife on the sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm who is often the butt of jokes.
Some of the memes consisted of shots of Hines portraying her character with a shocked looked on her face.
Others mocked the public’s inability to understand Nuzzi’s attraction to the much-older Kennedy.
The 70-year-old insisted he only met the political journalist once when she did a profile on him last year, with a spokesperson adding that the relationship was ’emotional and digital in nature, not physical’.
But insiders told the New York Post the pair had been ‘sexting.’
A 2015 tweet Nuzzi shared with a NYMag article has reemerged after the disgraced reporter was placed on leave, in which she asked: ‘Why does Hollywood think female reporters sleep with their sources?’
Nuzzi did not write the article but hundreds of users have quote-tweeted and responded with memes and cruel insults after they also dug up the profile of Kennedy where the pair ‘went hiking’ in 2023.
‘Olivia Nuzzi from the future would like to have a word. I can’t figure out if this aged very well or not,’ commented one user.
