Maybe not since Michael Douglas’ self-serving character in “Fatal Attraction” has a dishonest husband tried so exhausting to persuade others — and seemingly his spouse — that he deserves sympathy for being the article of a girl’s alleged sexual obsession.
However that’s what surrogates of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. try to do for the married, 70-year-old former presidential candidate, who has embroiled himself in one more intercourse scandal — this time over his alleged inappropriate, “sexting” relationship with star political reporter Olivia Nuzzi.
Kennedy’s mates informed the New York Publish over the weekend that the 31-year-old Nuzzi was “obsessed” with the Trump-supporting Kennedy member of the family, who’s married to his third spouse, TV actor Cheryl Hines. Nuzzi tried to “set (Kennedy) up” by repeatedly sending him pornographic images of herself, even after her quantity had been blocked.
Reporter Olivia Nuzzi arrives for the White Home Correspondents’ Affiliation dinner on the Washington Hilton in Washington, DC, April 29, 2023. (Photograph by Stefani Reynolds / AFP) (Photograph by STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP through Getty Pictures)
“She went after him aggressively,” a supply informed the New York Publish. “She targeted him pretty hard. Bobby was blocking her continually. It was a little scary. She was obsessed with him. I think she still is.”
However Kraus stated that Kennedy blocked Nuzzi two weeks after the profile was revealed as a result of she allegedly made “a flirtatious remark” to him in a textual content message. Over the following eight months, Kennedy stored her blocked, aside from a number of events, Kraus stated.
“Once unblocked, she bombarded him with increasingly pornographic photos and videos that he found difficult to resist,” Kraus wrote. “After brief exchanges, he would block her again.”
“This had nothing to do with romance,” Gavin de Becker, a safety skilled employed by Kennedy to take care of the Nuzzi state of affairs, informed Kraus. “He was being chased by porn.”
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA – MARCH 25: Actress Cheryl Hines (R) and her husband, impartial presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., greet supporters throughout a marketing campaign occasion to announce his choose for operating mate on the Henry J. Kaiser Occasion Middle on March 26, 2024 in Oakland, California. Impartial presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. introduced Silicon Valley lawyer Nicole Shanahan as his operating mate. (Photograph by Justin Sullivan/Getty Pictures)
Nuzzi has vehemently pushed again on the concept that she made Kennedy the sufferer in a “Fatal Attraction” state of affairs — by which she’s the “obsessed” different lady who’s relentlessly stalking the environmental lawyer-turned-anti-vaccine campaigner, because the New York Publish reported. Individuals near Nuzzi deny that she single-handedly instigated their “digital relationship,” although they acknowledged that the connection might, at occasions, be tumultuous.
“It’s absolutely untrue that she was the aggressor, but both parties were aware of how high pressure and high risk the circumstances were and for that reason their communication was very on and off,” an individual with information of the state of affairs informed the Publish.
“Olivia’s point of view is that to call this a relationship or affair is completely inaccurate. It was at most a flirtation,” one other supply near Nuzzi stated.
In the meantime, Kennedy’s wronged spouse spent a part of the weekend letting the world suppose that she wasn’t bothered by final week’s revelations that her husband of 10 years had engaged in a “personal relationship” with a reporter who was masking the 2024 presidential race.
Hines was seen celebrating her 59th birthday throughout Milan Style Week, with social media pictures displaying her and her daughter, Catherine Younger, within the viewers on the Gucci present, Individuals journal reported. Notably, Kennedy’s daughter, Kyra Kennedy, walked the runway within the present.
However the Day by day Mail additionally reported that the Curb Your Enthusiasm” actor was photographed in Milan not carrying her wedding ceremony ring. In the meantime different reviews quoted her mates, who stated they’d warned her about turning into Kennedy’s third spouse, given his repute as a womanizer and his controversial views, the Day by day Beast stated.
Kennedy additionally allegedly stored a intercourse diary in 2001 by which which he chronicled his affairs with dozens of different girls whereas married to his second spouse, Mary Richardson Kennedy, because the New York Publish initially reported in 2013.
NEW YORK – APRIL 19: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Mary Richardson Kennedy arrives on the eleventh Annual Riverkeeper Profit Gala on April 19, 2007 in New York Metropolis. (Photograph by Bryan Bedder/Getty Pictures)
Kennedy’s newest scandal — following a lifetime of scandals that embody the intercourse diary, his anti-vaccine beliefs, his brain-worm an infection and his current boast about dumping a bear-cub corpse in Central Park — broke final Thursday when his alleged “personal relationship” with Nuzzi made headlines after New York journal shared a word to readers revealing that it put her on go away.
The journal’s word acknowledged that Nuzzi was positioned on go away after she “engaged in a personal relationship with a former subject relevant to the 2024 campaign,” with a supply confirming to CNN that Nuzzi’s “personal relationship” concerned Kennedy.
The word additionally stated that the connection was “a violation of the magazine’s standards around conflicts of interest and disclosures” and, if the journal had been conscious of it, Nuzzi “would not have continued to cover the presidential campaign.”
Nuzzi shared an announcement of her personal to the media, confirming that “the nature of some communication” between herself and “a former reporting subject turned personal.” However she added that she “did not directly report on the subject nor use them as a source” throughout that interval.
“The relationship was never physical but should have been disclosed to prevent the appearance of a conflict,” she acknowledged. “I deeply regret not doing so immediately and apologize to those I’ve disappointed, especially my colleagues at New York.”
However now Nuzzi isn’t only a reporter below hearth for violating skilled ethics, she’s additionally dealing with potential civil litigation from Kennedy, based on Kraus. In the meantime, Kraus and different Kennedy sources are basically making an attempt to equate her to Glenn Shut’s deranged, bunny-boiling Alex Forrest in “Fatal Attraction.”
However Day by day Beast author Lily Mae Lazarus took difficulty with this portrait of an obsessed Nuzzi and a beleaguered Kennedy. She stated the statements about his seeming incapacity to withstand seduction by Nuzzi’s “pornographic” images mirrored the self-victimizing rhetoric he adopted in his alleged intercourse diary.
Within the thick, crimson journal obtained by the New York Publish, the son of Robert F. Kennedy and the nephew of John F. Kennedy stored monitor of his sexual encounters whereas he was in his seventh yr of marriage to Mary Richardson Kennedy, the mom of 4 of his six kids. Kennedy lately denied to the New York Publish that he stored such a diary.
However the Publish stated the diary was discovered by Mary Richardson Kennedy someday earlier than her demise. Self-importance Honest additionally reported in July that, through the marriage, Kennedy was recognized to textual content nude images of girls to his mates, and his mates assume that Kennedy took the images himself.
In his diary, Kennedy would award every lady he bedded with a quantity between 1 to 10, referring to sexual acts. The quantity “10” meant he and the girl had intercourse.
However within the diary, Kennedy additionally painted himself because the sufferer of seductresses, the Day by day Beast’s Lazarus stated. He used time period “mugged” if he felt he had been seduced and was, in his view of issues, an harmless, unwilling participant.
“I narrowly escaped being mugged by a double team of (two women),” he wrote in a single entry, the New York Publish reported. “It was tempting but I prayed and God gave me the strength to say no.”
Kennedy would have a good time a “victory” if he didn’t succumb to the temptations of girls, or if he received by a day with none sexual temptation, as a supply near Richardson informed the New York Publish in 2013.
Kennedy’s diary ended up within the fingers of the New York Publish after Richardson died by suicide in 2012. She and Kennedy separated in 2010 and she or he was distraught over her husband’s serial philandering and impending divorce earlier than her demise, the New York Publish stated.
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