“Ms. Nuzzi has no interest in waging a PR war,” Nuzzi’s attorney, Ari Wilkenfeld, told PEOPLE

Olivia Nuzzi He has withdrawn his petition for a protective order against his ex-fiancée, his attorney confirmed with PEOPLE.

former new York magazine reporter She had previously filed the petition on September 30, alleging that Ryan Lizza had stolen and hacked her personal information. tried to blackmail him After their engagement ends, they get into a relationship again. Lizza’s Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Their engagement was called off after she discovered his alleged “personal relationship” with. Nuzzi also claimed that Lizza leaked the details to the media.

On Friday, November 8, Nuzzi filed a motion to withdraw his allegations.

Her attorney, Ari Wilkenfeld, confirmed the decision in a statement to PEOPLE, saying, “Ms. Nuzzi has no interest in fighting a public relations war.”

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Nuzzi further explained his decision in a statement included in his motion obtained by PEOPLE.

She described her initial request for a protective order as a “last resort” effort “to save herself from a controlling and abusive relationship.” He hoped the order would force Lizza to stop “harassing and harming him through defamatory publicity and distribution of hacked, stolen and/or doctored material involving him.”

He also asked for Lizza to be ordered not to commit or threaten to commit a crime against him, adding later that the “harassment campaign has intensified” since she applied for a protection order. He said he would move forward by “withdrawing from this process” by requesting that his petition be denied.

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Lizza also responded to Nuzzi’s move, telling PEOPLE: “Olivia shamelessly used filing lawsuits with false and defamatory claims as a public relations strategy. “He refused to defend his claims in court last month when required to do so.”

“Now, on the eve of a trial where he knew his lies would be exposed, he took the only course available to him and withdrew his fabricated allegations.”

He then referenced Nuzzi’s alleged affair with Kennedy; this relationship was said to have been going on for a year before he found out about it.

“Olivia lied to me for almost a year. She lied to her editors. She lied to her readers. She lied to her colleagues. She lied to journalists. And in this case, she lied to the judge. So I said I would defend myself against her, and she lied powerfully and successfully.” “I’m fully prepared to do that, too. But I’m glad this matter is closed for now.”

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Reports on the relationship between Nuzzi and Kennedy, who married Cheryl Hines In 2014, she first appeared in September, nearly a year after we interviewed her for a November 2023 profile. In court documents filed last month, Lizza denies Nuzzi’s blackmail and hacking allegations as “defamatory lies.”

Although Nuzzi had previously stated that his and Kennedy’s relationship was “non-sexual” and needed to be “clarified,” a representative for Kennedy previously claimed that he had only met Nuzzi once “for an interview that he had requested,” which resulted in a hit He had.

Nuzzi and Lizza were due to appear in court again this month before dismissing their claims.