Olivia Nuzzi has yet another jaw-dropping love interest, we hear.
Earlier this week, the Status newsletter reported that the scandal-scarred journo has been spotted with Vice co-founder Shane Smith, sparking chatter that Nuzzi — who lost not one but two jobs amid the revelations about her alleged affair with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — might begin working for Vice.
But Page Six has learned that they’ve been experimenting with more than just editorial positions.
“It’s romantic,” choked one insider.
Apparently the pair met in April and “it began immediately,” a source added.
Nuzzi had been the Washington correspondent for New York Magazine, but was put on leave pending an investigation after it was revealed that she had developed an intimate relationship with Kennedy while interviewing him on the 2024 campaign trail. (Kennedy claimed they only met once for an interview.)
Page Six revealed soon after that the pair had maintained a long and intense phone-based relationship, and that they’d even told each other they were in love.
Her then-fiancé, now-former Politico writer Ryan Lizza, wrote a bamboo-heavy tell-all about the episode, in which he also suggested she’d dated much-older ESPN writer Keith Olbermann and Sen. Mark Sanford. (Neither Sandford nor Nuzzi addressed the claim.)
Nuzzi meanwhile, penned her lightly read memoir, “American Canto.”
Vanity Fair — which had controversially signed her up as its West Coast editor — let her contract lapse.
Now we’re told Nuzzi and Smith — the deeply divisive co-founder of Vice, which began as an nihilistic underground hipster magazine, became a corporate establishment behemoth, went bankrupt and is now in the process of piecing itself back together — have been spotted hanging out in Malibu, where they both live.
Vice insiders told us that Nuzzi isn’t being considered for a job, and that Smith is “a single guy,” suggesting he’s free to have personal relationships. Nuzzi and Smith didn’t get back to us.