Disgraced political journalist Olivia Nuzzi is shacked up in a swanky $3.5 million Malibu compound, just a 45-minute drive from a mansion owned by her former “digital-only” lover, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, The Post can reveal.
Sources told this outlet that the 32-year-old has been hiding from the glare of the paparazzi at the two-bedroom house that property deeds show is owned by longtime Los Angeles restaurateur Tommy Stoilkovich, 62.
“Oh no, sorry. You’re mistaken. You’ve got the wrong guy,” Stoilkovich told The Post when contacted by phone earlier on Thursday before quickly hanging up.
Exclusive pictures taken by The Post could also raise questions for New York Times ‘power and privilege’ writer Jacob Bernstein, the son of the legendary Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein.
His fawning profile of Nuzzi claimed the Brooklyn-born journalist was living in “a tiny house in the heart of Malibu” but failed to mention that it was part of the sprawling upmarket property.
Bernstein’s puff piece was noticeably free of any criticism, carrying a headline that the outgoing Vanity Fair West Coast editor “did it all for love.”
The 47-year-old Gray Lady scribe did not respond to noti.group’s request for comment.
Stoilkovich, the owner of Nuzzi’s Malibu hideaway, is a restaurant and club owner who helped shape the city’s nightlife scene in the 1990s and the early 2000s.
Born and raised in Pacific Palisades, he and his fellow club promoter Mike Garrett launched a string of ventures, including Lounge 217 and Voda.
They then expanded eastward, opening Pearl Dragon in West Hollywood in May, an Asian spot that closed last year, and Falcon on Sunset Boulevard, which has also shut its doors.
Stoilkovich’s most acclaimed project came in 2008 with Anisette Brasserie in Santa Monica, when he teamed up with top French chef Alain Giraud to create an authentic Parisian-style eatery featuring zinc bars, and classic fare like steak frites and seafood platters.
Praised by critics for its old-world charm amid LA’s modern scene, Anisette earned rave reviews but closed in 2010 amid economic pressures.
Stoilkovich’s 1.6-acre lot is just a short drive from her former beau and journalistic source, RFK. Jr, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, who has a swanky pad with wife Cheryl Hines in Mandeville Canyon: an exclusive haunt for the City of Angels’ ultra-rich.
That is according to the address that features on his own financial disclosure form that he filed before joining the Trump administration.
The secluded neighborhood’s past and present residents include Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kendrick Lamar, and Star Wars actor Harrison Ford.
Data compiled by Realtor, which is owned by noti.group’s parent company News Corporation, shows that the compound where Nuzzi is crashing would be worth $3.5 million if it were to go under the hammer today.
This outlet spotted the soon-to-be-ex Vanity Fair West Coast Editor driving her white Mustang around Malibu and Santa Monica this past Sunday.
Publisher Conde Nast made the call not to renew Nuzzi’s contract after a string of embarrassing pieces by her jilted fiancé of two years, Ryan Lizza, that unveiled new details about the so-called “digital” relationship.
Lizza alleged on his Substack that his former partner had also slept with a politician she covered, Mark Sanford, and drafted campaign memos advising RFK Jr on media strategy, as well as knowingly filed a bogus restraining order against Lizza to damage his reputation.
Lizza decided to tell his side of the story in the run-up to Nuzzi releasing her book ‘American Canto’ on Dec. 2, which discusses the so-called sexting affair with the one-time presidential candidate.
The memoir flopped after a string of scathing reviews, selling just 1,165 copies in its first week on shelves, according to Circana BookScan.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
