Political scribe Ryan Lizza is taking a leave of absence from Politico after he was accused of mounting a harassment and blackmail campaign against his former fiancée, star New York Magazine writer Olivia Nuzzi, his employer said Tuesday night.
I love it. I want to marry this sentence and raise children and golden retrievers with it.
Lizza, who co-authors the outlet's popular Playbook, and Politico bosses agreed that he should step away from the job while an investigation is conducted into the allegations that first came to light in a court filing Tuesday.
"POLITICO and Ryan Lizza have mutually agreed that it is in everyone's best interest for him to step back and take a leave of absence while an investigation is conducted," the outlet told The Post in an email.
Nuzzi, 31, claims Lizza, 50, harassed her following the couple's breakup -- and amid her tryst with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., according to CNN, which cited court docs.
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Nuzzi was placed on leave by her employers last month after the dalliance between her and Kennedy, 70, came to light.
The two reportedly sexted each other during the fling, and sometime earlier this year, Nuzzi and Lizza broke off their engagement.
The illicit couple allegedly Toobined each other:
Sources told Page Six last week Nuzzi and Kennedy had "incredible" FaceTime sex after they had talked over text.
Has cybersex ever really been "incredible"? I mean, sure, it's better than, say, Dynasty, but isn't it just synchronized wanking?
Here comes the blackmail allegation:
Nuzzi, in a bombshell court filing revealed Tuesday, alleged Lizza "explicitly threatened to make public personal information about me to destroy my life, career, and reputation -- a threat he has since carried out," CNN reported on Tuesday.
That alone is not blackmail. Blackmail is a threat to reveal information unless the target renders some money or takes some action he doesn't want to take.
You can threaten to reveal information all you like. It's not polite, but you're allowed to tell nasty (true) stories about someone, and you're allowed to threaten to reveal it. What the law forbids is the threat plus a demand for money or an action.
What would he have demanded of her? I'm not really sure what profit he could extract from her.
But she claims he wanted to... force her to come back to him?
That would be blackmail.
And pathetic! Ugh! Who the hell would want this whore back?
And to only have her back due to coercion!
Wow, what a prize to be won!
Nuzzi claimed Lizza started the harassment at the start of July to force her back into a relationship with him, and by the next month, he allegedly stole a personal electronic device and hacked her devices, according to the filing.
He also allegedly anonymously shopped information about her to the media, with some of that intel possibly "doctored," to hurt her, the filing states.
She must have Hunter Biden's lawyers -- she's suing him for "hacking" her devices, alleging he stole private information, but also, he made it all up so it wasn't really private information at all and you should just accept these two completely contradictory claims at the same time, thank you, drive through.
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She accused him of potentially, "through a third party or anonymous channel," tipping off New York Magazine last month about what she only referred to as "the matter."
Well he's allowed to do that. It's better when adults keep each other's sexual secrets, but no one is required by law to keep them.
If you cheat on your fiance, you can expect him to take that poorly, and not share your interest in keeping your whorish behaviors on the DL.
Lizza told The Post earlier Tuesday that he is "saddened that my ex-fiancée would resort to making a series of false accusations against me as a way to divert attention from her own personal and professional failings."
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A no-contact order was reportedly granted by a judge on Tuesday that orders Lizza to stay away from Nuzzi -- a common step in domestic disputes, CNN reported.
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Lizza was ousted from the New Yorker in 2017 over what the publication called "improper sexual contact," though Lizza at the time pushed back against that assertion.
"I am dismayed that The New Yorker has decided to characterize a respectful relationship with a woman I dated as somehow inappropriate," he said at the time, though the woman's lawyer dismissed that claim as nonsense.
As a friend remarked: these people do nothing but pose and preen as "the elite" and the New Aristocracy but every damn one of them is gross white trash.
But we need to heed their wisdom. They are all intelligent, self-disciplined, morally incorruptible, virtuous and wise.
Drive electric vehicles, you inbred low-class planet-hating bigots.
Oh wait, now we hate Elon Musk because he allows free speech on our social media app, let's all destroy our leases with Tesla and just skip out on our contracts.
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And what of the Pharisees, Jesus?
"Journalists" have all the morals of actors and all the learning of bag-ladies.