Keith Olbermann shot down Ryan Lizza’s critique of selections he made whereas in a relationship with Olivia Nuzzi, who Lizza additionally had a relationship with at a later date.
After Lizza detailed the items Olbermann gave Nuzzi in Monday’s Substack publish, the political commentator fired again on X. “Olivia and I lived collectively for 4+ years (4 b’days 4 Xmases 4 anniversaries),” he wrote. “That’s like $1250 of knickknack per celebration. And her house was a studio. And I made an f-ton then.”
He added: “What was I alleged to do? Get her Reward Certificates from Kmart?”
Olbermann’s response comes after Lizza wrote in Monday’s version of Telos Information, “Not that way back, I had helped her untangle herself from an uncommon relationship with Keith Olbermann, the previous MSNBC host. She had messaged him out of the blue. They began speaking, and shortly after, she fled her sad dwelling in suburban New Jersey and began residing with Keith in Manhattan.”
He continued: “He paid for her to attend school, outfitted her in Tom Ford and Hervé Léger attire and a few $15,000 value of Cartier jewellery. Later, he lined her lease and furnished her house in a doorman constructing within the West Village.”
As Lizza continued, he highlighted the 34-year age hole between the couple, and accused Olbermann of gifting Nuzzi presents with “strings connected.”
“Olivia had hid the connection from me and different associates, however in the future she instructed me the whole lot—an excessive amount of, really—and collectively we hatched a plan for her escape,” Lizza added. “When associates requested why I by no means responded to Keith’s public assaults on me and Olivia, I defined that she had felt stalked by Keith after she left him, and we had a strict coverage of by no means participating with him.”
Nuzzi’s romantic historical past has been a significant supply of dialog within the final yr, given the journalist exited her job at New York journal after disclosing she had an unethical sexting relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. whereas overlaying his 2024 presidential marketing campaign.
Nuzzi later filed a authorized criticism in opposition to her ex-fiancé Lizza, wherein she accused him of organizing a marketing campaign of blackmail and harassment in opposition to her after studying of the RFK relationship.
She additional accused Lizza of getting “explicitly threatened to make public private details about me to destroy my life, profession, and fame—a menace he has since carried out.”
Nonetheless, Lizza painted a unique image in Monday’s Substack publish. “I used to be not an ideal associate, however the scale of Olivia’s betrayal was devastating,” he wrote. “She had an affair with somebody who would offer the utmost stage of humiliation and private {and professional} break, maybe for each of us.”
Following the affair controversy, Nuzzi was tapped as the brand new West Coast editor for Self-importance Truthful, penned a memoir, titled “American Canto,” and featured in The New York Instances — which was notably ripped aside by critics on-line.
