
The nude picture row involving Robert F Kennedy Jr took another curious turn, with the now-former US presidential contender's camp indicating that he may sue over explicit pictures sent to him by the journalist Olivia Nuzzi.
New York Post, which first reported this possibility, said that RFK Jr tried to block Nuzzi's number "but was tricked into unblocking."
It quoted Gavin de Becker, hired by the politician to investigate the matter, as saying that the whole thing had "nothing to do with romance," and he was "being chased by porn".
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New York Magazine placed on leave Olivia Nuzzi, 31, who admitted to have had a sexting relationship with a subject of her reporting, without naming RFK Jr.
Interestingly, RFK Jr had reportedly bragged in the past about being in possession of Nuzzi's nudes.
Nuzzi, later when confronted by her boss about the rumours in this regard, said she had a non-physical, sexting relationship with RFK Jr, according to reports.
RFK Jr's wife Cheryl Hines was seen without her wedding ring, and is seething at the Nuzzi affair, but is yet to issue a public statement, said the reports.
Jessica Read Kraus, a mutual acquaintance of both RFK Jr and Nuzzi, wrote in a blog post that Nuzzi sent him "racy messages" after he first blocked her after her apparent flirting two weeks into writing a profile of him for the magazine.
Nuzzi then sent him an email asking him to unblock her so that she could share information about an adverse article being written against him, wrote Kraus in her blog on Substack titled 'The Talented Ms Nuzzi'.
"Once unblocked, she bombarded him with increasingly pornographic photos and videos that he found difficult to resist," Kraus wrote.
(With inputs from agencies)