In a lawsuit filed in Washington, D.C., New York Magazine reporter Olivia Nuzzi accused her ex-fiancé this week of organizing a campaign of blackmail and harassment against her after learning of the secret relationship she had with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
In the filing, first reported by CNN , Nuzzi doesn’t specify when her engagement with Politico reporter Ryan Lizza ended, but she accuses him of beginning this campaign against her in secret in July. Lizza, she says, tried to blackmail and threaten her into getting back together with him.
In August, Nuzzi alleges, Lizza stole and hacked her devices and began spreading word of the affair to peers, anonymously. He also “explicitly threatened to make public personal information about me to destroy my life, career, and reputation—a threat he has since carried out,” the lawsuit alleges…