Ryan Lizza ― the ex-fiancé of Olivia Nuzzi, the New York magazine political reporter who was put on leave after it came to light that she’d had an inappropriate relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ― has fired back at Nuzzi’s claims that he tried to blackmail her, calling the allegations a “last-ditch effort to salvage” her reputation.

Political journalist Ryan Lizza has accused his ex-fianceé, the acclaimed magazine writer Olivia Nuzzi, of “catastrophically reckless behavior” in a year-long affair with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that led to the journalists’ breakup this summer,

After journalist Olivia Nuzzi filed a no-contact order against ex-fiancé Ryan Lizza, he responded with bombshell accusations about the reporter's alleged relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. "Nuzzi had been cheating on me with a married man for almost a year,