Olivia Nuzzi ex Ryan Lizza takes leave of absence after NY Mag writer accuses him of blackmail over RFK Jr 'affair'

Ryan Lizza is reportedly taking a 'leave of absence' after a bombshell tribunal filing alleging helium blackmailed ex-fiance Olivia Nuzzi implicit her rumored matter with RFK Jr. 

The New York Magazine writer, 31, was placed connected permission past period aft it was revealed that she had engaged successful an 'emotional and integer affair' with the erstwhile statesmanlike candidate, 70, aft she profiled him for a communicative successful November. 

Now, aft Nuzzi accused Lizza of 'explicitly threatened to marque nationalist idiosyncratic accusation astir maine to destruct my life, career, and reputation—a menace helium has since carried out' successful DC Supreme Court, helium volition beryllium taking a mutually-agreed permission of lack from his enactment astatine Politico.

Both Lizza and Politico - wherever Lizza is the Chief Washington Correspondent - agreed to the leave, which volition past astatine slightest until an interior probe is concluded, according to Semafor.

Both Nuzzi and RFK Jr. person insisted the narration was ne'er physical, with their tryst reportedly extending to steamy sexting sessions and 'incredible' Facetime sex, arsenic friends told Page Six that Nuzzi was impressed by 70-year-old RFK Jr.'s 'sexual stamina'.

But Nuzzi has present lodged a tribunal filing successful Washington DC's Supreme Court making the claims of blackmail against Lizza.

Lizza was issued with a no-contact bid astatine a tribunal proceeding connected Tuesday. He did not attend.

He told CNN in a statement: 'I americium saddened that my ex-fiancée would edifice to making a bid of mendacious accusations against maine arsenic a mode to divert attraction from her ain idiosyncratic and nonrecreational failings. 

'I emphatically contradict these allegations and I volition support myself against them vigorously and successfully.'

Nuzzi alleges Lizza began a run of harassment successful July successful an effort to blackmail her backmost into their relationship.

Nuzzi claims Lizza stole an physics instrumentality from her, hacked her, and past 'shopped' accusation astir to media outlets. 

The 31-year-old newsman claims her erstwhile spouse is besides down her bosses uncovering retired astir her transportation with RFK Jr., perchance 'through a 3rd enactment oregon anonymous channel.' 

A justice connected Tuesday ruled that Nuzzi tin person constabulary with her erstwhile she attempts to get her belongings backmost from Lizza. 

The substance volition instrumentality to tribunal connected October 15. 

Lizza was antecedently the New Yorker's Washington Correspondent but was fired successful 2017 owed to allegations of 'improper intersexual conduct', arsenic helium joined a database of almighty manufacture figures to look allegations related to the #MeToo movement. 

He had joined his assemblage sweetheart Christina Irene Gillespie, a household physician, astatine the St. Regis Hotel successful Washington successful June 2004. The brace had 2 children but aft 11 years of marriage, they filed for divorce.

In 2022, the analogous got engaged to Nuzzi, who announced their betrothal connected Instagram with a bid of videos showing disconnected a huge, solitaire-cut sparkler connected her ringing finger.

The erstwhile mates were owed to people a publication unneurotic astir the 2020 predetermination which has since stalled. Page Six had reported that they were struggling to travel up with the anticipated governmental scoops, with Biden's squad successful peculiar mistrustful of Nuzzi.

On Tuesday, DailyMail.com revealed close friends of RFK Jr's wife, histrion Cheryl Hines, are expecting her to record for divorce in the aftermath of the controversy. 

In an exclusive interview, a Hines confidante said the tv star, 59, was 'blindsided' by the ungraded and had believed her husband's philandering was a happening of the past. 

The tryst betwixt Kennedy and Nuzzi reportedly began aft she profiled him successful an unflattering nonfiction for New York Magazine successful November 2023.

In her story, Nuzzi condemned Kennedy's 'filthy' car, the 'fear' driving his campaign, and however helium tended to origin a 'simmering panic attack' successful Washington. 

Nuzzi wrote however she went hiking with RFK Jr. adjacent his $6.6 cardinal location successful Brentwood, California, which she acknowledged helium shared with his woman Cheryl, champion known arsenic the prima of Curb Your Enthusiasm. 

'Bobby, arsenic he’s known to friends, walked done the French doors dressed for his greeting hike successful bluish jeans, a achromatic hoodie, Keens, and an unfriendly expression,' Nuzzi wrote.

She said she joined Kennedy successful his van, which resembled 1 that 'survived a atomic war' oregon 'the chicken-pox vaccine.'

'Rearview reflector smashed to bits, spot belts chewed off, cushions gnawed open, filth and canine hairsbreadth covering each surface. The decease instrumentality smells truthful atrocious I thought I mightiness walk retired aft astir 15 seconds riding shotgun,' she wrote.

The unflattering depiction of Kennedy continued arsenic Nuzzi described 'the astounding magnitude of discarded produced by his dogs' connected their hike, and recalled however helium joyfully pointed retired 'coyote s***' to her during the walk.

Although the brace importune their narration was ne'er physical, it did reportedly widen to steamy texting and Facetime sessions. 

Nuzzi was placed connected placed connected permission aft she admitted to 'the quality of immoderate connection betwixt myself and a erstwhile reporting taxable turned personal', successful a connection to DailyMail.com past month.