Greetings from Los Angeles, and welcome back to In the Room, my twice-weekly private email on media and media people. Tout and shout of the week goes to my dear friend and partner Lauren Sherman, whose very dishy reporting on the fashion beat has so enraged the debonair LVMH chief executive Bernard Arnault that he tried to ban his managers from speaking to Puck, along with a few other media organizations. (Nearly every major French newsco has signed a letter protesting his effort.) Lauren’s Line Sheet is, indeed, the email Monsieur Arnault does not want you to read. Go ahead and sign up here.

Tonight, in this email, more news on the “demure” R.F.K. Jr.-Olivia Nuzzi sexting saga that continues to enrapture the slum-dwelling media elite. Who did what? Who knew what, when? What did Ryan know? Who leaked? And, of course, what will happen to New York’s star political journalist?

But first…

• A new Forbes C.E.O.?: Charles Koch’s private equity entity and Indian media entrepreneur Divyank Turakhia are in talks to acquire Forbes in a deal that would value the mediaco at around $570 million, according to Axios’s Sara Fischer. Of course, as I noted earlier this year, Forbes is really...