Olivia Nuzzi had ‘affair’ with GOP presidential candidate Mark Sanford

“If I swallowed every drop of water from the tower above your house, I would still thirst for you,” she had written, according to Lizza, in a note dated March 5, 2020. Their house, he noted, had no water tower.

In his Telos News letter, he revealed that another page referred to the letter’s recipient as “Mark,” which he said confirmed what he feared: an alleged physical relationship with Sanford, now 65, a presidential candidate she had profiled months earlier.

By early 2020, the pair had signed a contract to write a book about the presidential race.

Nuzzi, 32, was spending “more and more time in South Carolina,” which Lizza, 51, said was for reporting.