Mocking journalist Olivia Nuzzi for affair with RFK is SEXIST, according to female writer once embroiled in mistress scandal

The erstwhile Bloomberg writer who near her hubby successful a failed effort to woo 'Pharma Bro' Martin Shkreli says criticizing Olivia Nuzzi for her matter with RFK Jr. is sexist. 

Christie Smythe - who broke the internet with her 2020 effort 'The Journalist and the Pharma Bro' astir her little tryst with Shkreli that destroyed her marriage - is hitting retired astatine those criticizing Nuzzi for being sexist.

'So f-ing bushed of women being scandalized for things that would beryllium implicit non-events if men did them', Smythe tweeted.

'Yes, she should person disclosed immoderate conflict, but also, similar possibly the mag softly encouraged this 'conflict' due to the fact that it wanted scoops?' 

Nuzzi, a prima newsman at New York Magazine disclosed to editors that she had 'engaged successful a idiosyncratic narration with a erstwhile taxable applicable to the 2024 campaign', the outlet confirmed. 

Both person denied thing carnal happened, with a Kennedy advisor saying it was 'emotional and digital' portion Nuzzi called it 'personal', each portion the net has crudely mocked the pair.

Smythe retweeted others asking for sympathy for Nuzzi, including Caitlin Flanagan of The Atlantic and New York Magazine exertion Andrew Rice. 

Smythe is simply a seasoned of drafting the internet's ire for her engagement with Shkreli.

The ex-Bloomberg writer became a root of fascination aft she revealed successful December 2020 that she had near her occupation and her hubby for the reviled businessman, who successful 2015 bought an Aids cause and hiked the terms from $13.50 per pill to $750.

He was arrested successful December 2015 connected securities fraud, connected to his enactment astatine a hedge fund, and successful March 2018 was sentenced to 7 years successful situation for the fiscal crimes. 

She continues to support Shkreli, contempt him dumping her aft the 2020 nonfiction successful Elle, via a connection issued to the magazine.

Smythe freely admitted that, by 2017, she was devoted to Shkreli - thing which acrophobic her then-husband.

She said she had yet convinced her spouse of astir a decade, Devin Arcolo, a financier, to be the counseling successful November 2017.

But the league clashed with the archetypal sojourn to spot Shkreli successful jail, successful the Metropolitan Detention Center successful Brooklyn.

She arrived 52 minutes precocious for the hour-long session.

'I didn't number the minutes — helium did,' Smythe said.

'We inactive went to matrimony counseling aboriginal and it was a disaster, of course. Nothing was counseled.'

The couple's matrimony irrevocably broke down.

And successful July 2018, she resigned from Bloomberg - the quality bureau that had assigned her to study connected Shkreli, successful 2015.

'I was feeling highly frustrated by having to support everything bottled up,' she told the paper.

'I was just, like, 'Everyone is truthful disquieted astir what? That I volition autumn successful emotion with him?'

'After that thought sunk in, I was like, 'You cognize what, possibly I bash emotion him — screw everyone.' '

Smythe had archetypal begun corresponding with Shkreli successful 2015, successful the aboriginal days of the contention of the Aids drug, Daraprim.

His 5,000 percent summation successful the outgo of the life-saving attraction was reviled by everyone from Hillary Clinton to Bernie Sanders to Donald Trump.

In January 2016 the brace met successful idiosyncratic for the archetypal time, arsenic his Manhattan bureau portion helium was connected bail.

'I don't deliberation I was attracted to him initially,' she said. 'Well, maybe. It was much of a curiosity. I was not reasoning astir him arsenic a romanticist subject.'

In February 2016 helium was subpoenaed to attest earlier Congress astir the terms hike, but repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment - doing small to endear himself to his critics. 

She began researching a publication connected the Brooklyn-born financier and entrepreneur, and covered his communicative extensively for Bloomberg, including his trial.

'Even though he's benignant of shy, he's similar a lightning rod,' she said.

He was sentenced successful March 2018 to 7 years successful prison.

After leaving Bloomberg, she confessed her feelings to him, and the brace had their archetypal buss - successful prison.

Prison rules barred them from having sex, but connected their visits she said they would person hours-long conversations astir 'books, science, pharmaceuticals, crypto, family, hopes and dreams'.

Smythe said that helium took her penning vocation seriously, adding: 'That, of course, is precise flattering.'

She added: 'We were ne'er astatine a nonaccomplishment for thing to say. We were ever making each different laugh.'

They discussed marriage, prenups, and children, and Smythe froze her eggs, connected his encouragement.

But erstwhile the pandemic hit, and she could nary longer sojourn him, things started to spell wrong.

In December 2020 she spoke to Elle mag astir the relationship, which angered him.

He gave the mag a statement: 'Mr Shkreli wishes Ms Smythe the champion of luck successful her future.'.

She said it was 'hurtful', but not genuinely astonishing that helium reacted badly, and told The New York Times that she would hold for him.

He was released from situation and the romance fizzled.

She said that, if she had 'thrown Shkreli nether the bus' and portrayed herself arsenic a victim, and 'played on with the arch-villain narrative', she would person been offered a much accepted publication deal.

'If I conscionable gave up everything I really thought and went on with what [the publishers] thought would sell, I'd person published a book. But I can't bash that,' she said.

She said the exertion she present works with told her she was 'an unlikeable heroine'.

'When I realized that was wherever I fit, it became truthful overmuch easier to constitute and to woody with the antagonistic reactions,' she said.

Meanwhile, the net continues to erupt with brutal memes successful the aftermath of the Nuzzi-RFK sexting scandal. 

The matter allegedly began successful 2023, erstwhile the prima governmental newsman visited Kennedy's $7 cardinal California home to constitute a diagnostic nonfiction for New York Magazine. 

At the time, the 31-year-old was engaged to Politico's main Washington correspondent, Ryan Lizza, 50.

In a connection to DailyMail.com, Nuzzi admitted that 'the quality of immoderate connection betwixt myself and a erstwhile reporting taxable turned personal.' 

Meanwhile, her editors confirmed that the different enactment was a 'former taxable applicable to the 2024 campaign.'

Users connected societal media aren't going casual connected the writer and erstwhile statesmanlike hopeful. 

The lad of the precocious Robert F. Kennedy is joined to histrion Cheryl Hines, champion known for her relation arsenic Larry David's woman connected the sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm who is often the butt of jokes.

Her editors confirmed that the different enactment was a 'former taxable applicable to the 2024 campaign'. Status reports that the matter was with the erstwhile statesmanlike hopeful, who is joined to histrion Cheryl Hines.

RFK Jr., 70, has insisted helium lone met the governmental writer erstwhile once she did a illustration connected him past year. 

'Mr. Kennedy lone met Olivia Nuzzi erstwhile successful his beingness for an interrogation she requested, which yielded a deed piece,' his spokesperson told CNN. A root added that the quality of the narration was 'emotional and integer successful nature, not physical'. 

But insiders told the New York Post the brace had engaged successful 'sexting' contempt RFK Jr. being joined and Nuzzi being engaged astatine the time.

'Earlier this year, the quality of immoderate connection betwixt myself and a erstwhile reporting taxable turned personal,' Nuzzi said.

'During that time, I did not straight study connected the taxable nor usage them arsenic a source,' she said. 

'The narration was ne'er carnal but should person been disclosed to forestall the quality of a conflict. I profoundly regret not doing truthful instantly and apologize to those I've disappointed, particularly my colleagues astatine New York.' 

New York mag acknowledged an inappropriate relationship successful a connection astir Nuzzi's hiatus, deeming it 'a usurpation of the magazine's standards astir conflicts of involvement and disclosures'.

'Had the mag been alert of this relationship, she would not person continued to screen the statesmanlike campaign,' the connection read. 'An interior reappraisal of her published enactment has recovered nary inaccuracies nor grounds of bias. 

'She is presently connected permission from the magazine, and the mag is conducting a much thorough third-party review. We regret this usurpation of our readers' trust.'

Nuzzi, 31, has been engaged to Politico's main Washington analogous Ryan Lizza, 50, since 2022. 

However, the mates person since called disconnected their nuptials, with the New York Post reporting this was successful the past fewer weeks. 

Nuzzi is understood to person met father-of-six RFK for a hiking travel past twelvemonth arsenic portion of a illustration that she wrote for New York magazine.

A root adjacent to Nuzzi told Status that the narration did not statesman until the caller year, aft the illustration was published successful November 2023. 

People adjacent to the substance said she did not proactively disclose the matter and New York mag lone precocious learned of it.