Ryan Lizza accuses ex Olivia Nuzzi of ‘shamelessly using litigation as PR strategy’ after she withdraws abuse claims against him

Ryan Lizza has accused ex-fiancée Olivia Nuzzi of defaming him as “public relations strategy.” Instagram/@olivianuzzix

A former DC power couple continues its ferocious explosion.

Olivia Nuzzi, the star reporter whose FaceTime affair with RFK Jr. was sensationally exposed in September, had asked a court for a restraining order against her ex-fiancé, fellow Beltway journo Ryan Lizza.

Nuzzi, who until last month was New York Magazine’s DC correspondent, claimed that Lizza had “explicitly threatened to make public personal information about me to destroy my life, career, and reputation.”

She also claimed that he had tried to blackmail her into staying with him.

Nuzzi has left her job as a correspondent for New York Magazine since her FaceTime affair with RFK Jr. was revealed. Dennis A. Clark

But on Tuesday, she withdrew her application, with her attorney saying that she had “concluded she will garner the greatest protection by disengaging from this process,” and claiming that she’s “increasingly worried for her physical safety and well-being.”

But Lizza fumed in a statement to Page Six that Nuzzi had simply been “shamelessly [using] litigation with false and defamatory allegations as a public relations strategy.”

“On the eve of a [court hearing to make the order permanent] at which she knew her lies would be exposed, she has taken the only course available to her and withdrawn her fabricated claims,” Politico Playbook writer Lizza said.

The journalism power couple had been engaged. Olivia Nuzzi / Facebook

Nuzzi began a relationship with the former presidential candidate (and husband to “Curb Your Enthusiasm” star Cheryl Hines) after profiling him in October last year. As Page Six has previously reported, the pair had an intense romance in which they had “incredible” FaceTime sex and even told each other they were in love, but never actually met in person, sources said.

(Kennedy — who dropped out of the race to endorse Donald Trump and is now heading the president-elect’s “Make America Healthy Again” program — has denied the affair.)

The former Daily Beast phenom was put on leave by New York Magazine in September after editors discovered the affair, though it said at the time that an initial review had found no inaccuracies or bias in her work.

In October, the magazine released a statement saying that an independent review, “reached the same conclusion,” but that “nevertheless, the magazine and Nuzzi agreed that the best course forward is to part ways.”

The Kennedy scion is married to “Curb Your Enthusiasm” star Cheryl Hines.

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