The portrait of the magazine’s West Coast Editor is reportedly part of its Hollywood issue and comes amid renewed interest in her scandals.<\/b>
\nAs the media world finds renewed interest in Olivia Nuzzi\u2019s RFK Jr. scandal due to her ex-fianc\u00e9 Ryan Lizza\u2019s tell-all series on the subject, the newly hired West Coast Editor of Vanity Fair is reportedly set to appear nude in an abstract art piece in the magazine\u2019s upcoming Hollywood issue.
Painted by artist Isabelle Brourman, an apparent image of the portrait dropped on social media earlier this week \u2014 just before Lizza continued to fan the flames surrounding the former Washington, D.C., correspondent for New York magazine with Part 3 of his blog posts.
On Wednesday, fellow journalist Lizza wrote that \u201cOlivia had essentially become a private political operative for Bobby Kennedy, while publicly posing as a hard-nosed reporter \u2026 What you have been reading about here is not really a scandal about sex, but a scandal about journalistic ethics.\u201d
According to her ex, Nuzzi allegedly snuck a recorder into Brourman\u2019s bag as the artist sketched Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago ahead of her September 2024 profile on the now-president in order to pick up conversations the then-candidate had with his associates.
\u201cWith any luck, Olivia would capture some great material for her piece and some intel for Bobby as he negotiated the endorsement,\u201d Lizza alleged. \u201cAccording to Olivia, when [Brourman] left the session, [she] was hung up on something she believed Trump might have said about Butler, Pennsylvania \u2014 something explosive that, if she were correct, would shatter our understanding of recent history.\u201d
Vanity Fair said last week it is reviewing its ties to Nuzzi in light of Lizza\u2019s prior allegations. TheWrap reached out for further comment on Wednesday.
In a statement to TheWrap, Nuzzi\u2019s attorney responded to Lizza: \u201cThis is another example of why Ms. Nuzzi sought the intervention of the DC Superior Court in 2024 amid a harassment campaign that is still ongoing and has now lasted more than 16 months; that legal process was then weaponized and used to escalate the harassment against her and to humiliate her. Ms. Nuzzi will not dignify efforts to impugn her character with any further response.\u201d
Nuzzi, meanwhile, has shared her side of the story in her memoir, \u201cAmerican Canto.\u201d In it, she wrote about her relationship with \u201cthe politician,\u201d never mentioning Kennedy by name. She began her job at VF in September after leaving NY Mag in 2024.
For his part, Lizza is said to be planning an eight-part series from his point of view. Vanity Fair\u2019s Hollywood Issue is expected to his shelves on Dec. 2.<\/p>\n