Nicole Shanahan, who ignored repeated requests for comment on a Daily Beast story about her astonishing ascent to become Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate, complained on Thursday that she was “slandered” and had to “take a walk to shake it off.”
Shanahan, who has been bankrolling RFK Jr.’s spoiler-ready campaign for president with the fortune she got in her divorce from Google founder Sergey Brin, did not raise any specific objection to the story, which she said...