Politico reporter Ryan Lizza announced that he would no longer cover stories about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. due to the alleged “personal relationship” his former fiancée, Olivia Nuzzi, had with the 2024 presidential candidate.

Lizza shared in Politico Playbook on Friday: “Because of my connection to this story through my ex-fiancé, my editors and I have agreed that I will not be involved in any reporting about Kennedy in Playbook or elsewhere at POLITICO.”

According to the New York Post, Lizza and Nuzzi got engaged in 2022, but split earlier this year.

Politico’s announcement comes shortly after Nuzzi, a star reporter for New York magazine, was suspended by her employer over her alleged relationship with Kennedy.

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Politico reporter Ryan Lizza, pictured here with his ex-fiancée Olivia Nuzzi, announced that he had decided to no longer cover RFK Jr. after Nuzzi revealed that she had a “personal relationship” with the former 2024 presidential candidate. (Getty Images)

The magazine released a statement Thursday night saying that Nuzzi had told them she had “a personal relationship” with a “former subject relevant to the 2024 campaign.” According to the blog Status, that person was Kennedy.

“Nuzzi acknowledged to the magazine’s editors that she had a personal relationship with a former subject relevant to the 2024 campaign while covering the campaign, a violation of the magazine’s standards regarding conflicts of interest and disclosure,” New York Magazine said. said in a statement.

Nuzzi, the magazine’s Washington Correspondent, has done several high-profile interviews while covering the presidential election. One of them was Kennedy, who she wrote a feature at the end of last year.

NY Mag said it found no evidence of bias in Nuzzi’s past reporting on Kennedy, but the magazine would not have allowed her to continue covering the 2024 race if it had known about the relationship. Kennedy suspended his 2024 independent campaign last month and endorsed former President Trump.

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Olivia Nuzzi, New York Mag’s Washington correspondent, is said to have had a “personal relationship” with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. while covering the presidential election. (Photo by Anna Friemoth, courtesy of Olivia Nuzzi; Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)

“She is currently on leave from the magazine and the magazine is conducting a more thorough third-party investigation,” the statement continued. “We regret this breach of our readers’ trust.”

Nuzzi a statement released Thursday night, saying she never had a physical relationship with her former reporter but did have “personal” communications. She did not mention Kennedy by name.

“Earlier this year, the nature of communications between me and a former reporter became personal,” she said. “I did not report on the topic directly, nor did I use them as a source. The relationship was never physical, but should have been made public to avoid the appearance of a conflict. I deeply regret not doing so immediately, and I apologize to those I let down, especially my colleagues in New York.”

A spokesman for Kennedy also denied that there had ever been a physical relationship between the two.

“Mr. Kennedy met Olivia Nuzzi only once in his life for an interview she requested, which resulted in a damning article,” a Kennedy spokesman told Fox News Digital.

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Fox News’ Brian Flood contributed to this article.