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Reporter put on leave after admitting personal relationship with RFK Jr

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A prominent American political reporter has been placed on leave after she admitted having a personal relationship with Robert F Kennedy Jr while he was running for president.

Olivia Nuzzi, the 31-year-old Washington correspondent for New York magazine, is alleged to have shared sexual text messages with the 70-year-old independent candidate after visiting his home in California for an interview.

After the allegation of a relationship was made by the Status media news website on Thursday, Nuzzi confessed that the “nature of some communications between myself and a former reporting subject turned personal”.

Kennedy was running as an independent candidate for the White House but suspended his campaign in August

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She added: “During that time, I did not directly report on the subject nor use them as a source. The relationship was never physical but should have been disclosed to prevent the

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