Olivia Nuzzi to leave Vanity Fair at end of year after contract expires

What they're saying: "Vanity Fair and Olivia Nuzzi have mutually agreed, in the best interest of the magazine, to let her contract expire at the end of the year," spokespeople for both parties said in a statement shared with Axios.

The latest: Nuzzi published her memoir, "American Canto," this past week.

• Ahead of the release, Nuzzi's former fiancé Ryan Lizza published more allegations on his Substack about her relationship with Kennedy and accused her of having a relationship with another politician.

The big picture: Controversy has shrouded Nuzzi, a once heralded political writer, since last year when her former employer, New York magazine, learned of her previously undisclosed relationship with Kennedy.

• Nuzzi had served as New York's Washington correspondent and written a profile of Kennedy during his presidential run in 2023, along with many other stories about President Trump and other politicians.
• Following the revelation, the magazine placed Nuzzi on leave, and they later parted ways. But Nuzzi had recently returned to a newsroom after Vanity Fair's recently appointed global editorial director Mark Guiducci named her West Coast editor in September.