Olivia Nuzzi is writing a book about her alleged sexting affair with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ― and it’s going to be explicit, according to reports.
Oliver Darcy’s Status announced Nuzzi has been quietly working on the book since parting ways with New York magazine over the relationship. It allegedly began after she interviewed the then-presidential hopeful in 2023.
Book galleys are circulating, and it’s headed for a possible holiday-time release, Darcy reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
But the New York Post’s Page Six delved more into supposed details, writing that the book will include the steamy messages between the two that could “potentially incinerate” Kennedy’s marriage to “Curb Your Enthusiasm” star Cheryl Hines.
“It’s hard to imagine RFK surviving this with his marriage and job intact,” a “source with knowledge of the book” told the gossip site.
It’s titled “American Canto,” and it has a “To Be Announced” holding spot on Amazon with a scheduled Dec. 2 release, according to Page Six. The publishing date would be about three weeks after Hines’ “Unscripted” memoir comes out.
HuffPost has reached out to the reported publisher, Simon & Schuster, Kennedy’s office and Nuzzi, whose book will also cover her political writing career, according to Darcy.
Nuzzi split with New York magazine in October 2024 after she was placed on leave for a “personal relationship” with Kennedy. The political scion faced high tension at home for his indiscretion, a source told People. The couple nearly stopped communicating for weeks after the scandal broke, and Hines was “embarrassed because he got caught,” the source said.
Hines opened up slightly about the scandal in an interview with The Wall Street Journal over the summer.
“I don’t think there’s any point to going through every rumor and headline to try to defend or explain it,” Hines said. “... Bobby and I talk about everything, so that’s how we move through everything, and we’re really good friends, and we trust each other.”
Last month, Nuzzi got hired as Vanity Fair’s West Coast editor.
