A source said the two had met multiple times, though insisted those meetings included public functions and maintained Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr.’s relationship was never physical.

Nuzzi apparently sent nude photos to the former independent presidential candidate, Puck News reported on Friday. Kennedy then bragged to his friends about receiving intimate photos of Nuzzi, The Daily Beast reported Saturday. These boasts ultimately made their way back to her boss, New York Magazine editor David Haskell.

In an email to New York Magazine staff on Friday, editor-in-chief David Haskell addressed the scandal surrounding star reporter Olivia Nuzzi, who conducted a secret romantic relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and is now on leave while the matter is being investigated.