Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr had an ongoing sexting relationship. The essence of the question is do you view sexting as cheating?

Resolution Criteria

This market resolves based on a poll voted on by other users. The question asks for a subjective judgment about whether sexting constitutes cheating—a matter of personal values and definitions rather than objective fact. Nuzzi claims her sexts represented the totality of their relationship and that they were in love but never physically intimate, while Nuzzi was still engaged to Ryan Lizza at the time of the sexts. Voters will determine whether this conduct qualifies as cheating based on their own standards.

Background

Nuzzi profiled Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has been married to his third wife Cheryl Hines since 2014, for New York Magazine in November 2023. In September 2024, news of Nuzzi's alleged sexting affair with Kennedy Jr. got out, and she was placed on leave for not disclosing their relationship and ultimately fired from New York Magazine a month later. Nuzzi and Lizza's engagement ended in August 2024 after he learned about her sexting affair. The two reportedly exchanged "I love yous" and had an affair that lasted nearly a year, complete with "incredible" FaceTime sex and speaking on "long calls".

Considerations

Kennedy has denied the affair entirely, while Nuzzi conceded in a statement to the Daily Beast that the relationship was real and crossed journalistic red lines despite it not being physical. The factual dispute about what occurred adds complexity to the question of whether it constitutes cheating.