Self-destructive behavior can be fun to read about when the principals are good-looking, famous or powerful. In the downfall and attempted resurrection of the journalist Olivia Nuzzi , we have a trifecta of prurience:

A beautiful young political reporter who is engaged to a much older professionally successful colleague falls in love with her subject, a much older, married presidential candidate from a storied American family.

With her fiance in the dark, a year of passionate phone sex and bad poetry reportedly ensues. But the beautiful young reporter is also something of a blabbermouth and word gets out. A famous tech journalist , once Nuzzi’s mentor, reveals her transgressions to her fiance and her employer. Nuzzi’s engagement ends, the lover dumps her, she is fired from her job an

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