Olivia Nuzzi’s tell-all ebook is in the end right here — and it paints an image of obsessive love, medicine and dangerous poetry from the “trojan horse”-filled mind of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who’s best referred to as “The Flesh presser.”
The 71-year-old Secretary of Well being and Human Products and services allegedly wept as he instructed Nuzzi, “I want I may simply be with you” — and mentioned she made him really feel as unfastened as the instant he used to be thrown from his runaway horse as a kid.
Nuzzi, 32, additionally claims in “American Canto” that the Kennedy scion sought after to impregnate her.
“I might take a bullet for you,” Kennedy allegedly instructed the previous New York Mag journalist — even supposing that modified when their affair turned into public and he requested her to take a metaphorical bullet for him, she writes.
“If it’s simply intercourse, I will continue to exist it,” he allegedly mentioned, apparently asking her to not disclose their courting as anything else extra advanced. (Nuzzi has all the time maintained the affair used to be no longer consummated.)
She additionally main points the abrupt finishing in their clandestine romance and the way Kennedy despatched her an “acid observe” — even threatening to name the FBI on her ex-fiancé, Ryan Lizza, who allegedly leaked information in their affair. In line with the ebook, it used to be Nuzzi who ended up chatting with the FBI, fearing that she have been hacked.
Nuzzi first met Kennedy, who’s married to “Curb Your Enthusiasm” actress Cheryl Hines, in 2023 when she interviewed him for New York Mag throughout his failed presidential bid. She used to be then engaged to Lizza, a former Politico journalist.
The Publish has reached out to reps for Kennedy and Hines.
The glamorous blonde writes how Kennedy, who famously struggled with substance abuse up to now and has lengthy spoken of being sober, would smoke the hallucinogenic drug DMT in secret whilst his spouse used to be out of the home.
The ebook describes DMT as sending customers “into the stratosphere of ego demise and again to earth in fifteen mins.” When she requested what it used to be like, Kennedy spoke back, “it’s simply your vintage psychedelic enjoy.”
Nuzzi additionally writes about listening to The Flesh presser did some other drug “that now and again interfered along with his skill to accomplish the paintings of campaigning for workplace. Once I raised the topic, he denied it.”
Kennedy, she says, cherished to turn her pictures from his more youthful years — and regale her with tales about his previous.
He instructed her about one summer season when he lived with musicians Keith Richards and John Phillips — and The Mamas and The Papas singer bought a pharmacy so they’d have get entry to to amphetamines.
Nuzzi claims that as their love intensified, Kennedy instructed her, “I want the whole lot from you, Livvy.
“He all the time mentioned that. Most commonly, it gave the impression candy, earnest. ‘The whole thing is yours,’ I mentioned. I all the time mentioned that. He instructed me that he sought after to have his child. This gave the impression earnest too,” she writes.
Nuzzi writes that that they had such an intimate courting that, throughout their video calls he used to be regularly shirtless and she or he may see indicators of his existence — just like the toiletry bag stuffed with such a lot of pharmaceuticals it will slightly shut.
When, on his tenth wedding ceremony anniversary, Nuzzi noticed a framed photograph of Hines and Kennedy within the background in their name, “he flipped it over, out of sight,” she writes.
In a single saccharine second, Kennedy recounts his adolescence horse driving twist of fate.
“He closed his eyes. They’re a startling more or less blue. Now not blue because the seas however blue because the flame. When he opened them once more, he used to be crying. [Being thrown by a horse] used to be essentially the most unfastened he had ever felt, he mentioned, and he looked for that feeling, for that freedom for his entire existence. He felt that freedom, he mentioned, with me.”
She, in flip, used to be disappointed by way of tales a few trojan horse infiltrating his mind.
“I hated the speculation of an outsider therein,” Nuzzi writes. Even though he mentioned a physician had instructed him it used to be no longer a trojan horse, it used to be too past due to prevent what had already develop into “screwy legend.”
As for some other screwy tale about Kennedy — that he dumped a undergo carcass in Central Park in 2014 — Nuzzi admits that she satisfied him to “get forward” of the tale after a journalist discovered about it in 2024. “It’ll assist me with rednecks and harm me with liberals,” Kennedy in the long run determined.
There used to be additionally “specific” poetry.
“I’m a river. You’re my canyon. I imply to float via you. I imply to subdue and tame you. My Love,” Nuzzi says Kennedy wrote — including that he additionally “described, together with different feralities, his plans for my ‘womb.’”
However issues got here to a head, the journalist writes, when her mentor — podcaster Kara Swisher showed to The Publish that it used to be she — discovered in regards to the Kennedy affair and went to Nuzzi’s bosses at New York Mag.
She admits that she lied when faced and claims that her boss urged she pen a “tell-all” for the mag and “write your method out of this.” (Via a New York Mag spokesperson, editor-in-chief David Haskell declined remark.)
When the tale broke in September 2024, Kennedy instructed her Hines used to be “hysterical” in Milan and had refused to be observed with him in public till after the election, whilst his alliance with Trump used to be “fragile.”
“I want you to take a bullet for me,” he mentioned. “If it’s simply intercourse, I will continue to exist it.” If it used to be anything else extra he may no longer.”
Kennedy learn Nuzzi a message he had despatched to Lizza, accusing him of violating their privateness and stalking Nuzzi.
He threatened to visit the FBI, however “he then referred to me as a stalker,” Nuzzi mentioned incredulously. “I’m sorry, I needed to exculpate myself,” he instructed her.
After leaving her process, Nuzzi moved to Malibu, CA. and used to be employed as West Coast Editor at Self-importance Honest, even supposing that position might now be up within the air.
Regardless of dropping her fiancé, her house and her process, the writer admits she nonetheless saved tabs on Kennedy’s affirmation listening to and used to be shocked — after the whole lot — to get message by the use of his bodyguard
“Simply, smartly, he’s sorry,” the Bodyguard mentioned. “I instructed him to let me maintain this. I want you to learn between the strains.”
Most likely rather chastened, Nuzzi writes: “A political candidate’s biggest trick is to persuade you that he’s no longer one. And what’s a political candidate? Any guy who needs to be cherished greater than different males and thru his pursuit unearths why he can’t love himself.”
