With friends like these, who needs enemies?
Olivia Nuzzi was spotted in Hollywood last week at a dinner party for a very unlikely pal: Popular pro-RFK Jr. Substacker Jessica Reed Kraus.
Kraus revealed in her Substack, “House Inhabit,” last week how Nuzzi, 32, was at Musso & Frank for a dinner honoring her online publication’s three-year anniversary.
Kraus wrote of Nuzzi’s attendance at the intimate dinner for 21 guests: “While Olivia may have successfully evaded the press since late September, staying away from HIH has proven far more trying. Details of their rekindling are said to be unveiled in due time, along with how she’s been spending her time in exile. For now, all that’s been offered is a snippet from her table introduction, where Ms. Nuzzi allegedly identified herself as ‘Jessica’s muse and sometimes ghost collaborator.’”
In pics from the event, Nuzzi is seen dining in a chic black number, and rolling up to the classic spot in a convertible.
As Sun Tzu, or some Hollywood publicist, said, “Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer.”
Months ago, Kraus was covering Nuzzi’s explosive scandal — but writing sympathetically about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and trashing the former Washington correspondent.
The Substacker wrote of her pal Nuzzi on Sept. 21, 2024: “As this scandal unfolds, I find myself questioning the very instincts that led me to trust [Nuzzi] as a friend in the first place,” calling her, “a full-fledged Kennedy fangirl” and “like a dazed schoolgirl discussing RFK, having lost the ability to view him objectively.”
But Kraus and Nuzzi seem to have “rekindled” their friendship. Call it water under the bus.
In January, Kraus wrote how Nuzzi attended her annual Christmas party, where another guest reportedly exclaimed to Kraus when they saw Nuzzi emerge from a photo booth, “What the f–k is Olivia Nuzzi doing at your party?”
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