Carole Radziwill

Carole Ann Radziwiłł ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}; Template:Née; born August 20, 1963) is an American journalist, author, and television personality. Throughout the course of nearly two decades working as a journalist and producer for ABC News, her reporting earned her three Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award,<ref name="KTTVFox1103052014" /> and a GLAAD Media Award.<ref name="vulture" />

After leaving ABC News, she wrote a memoir, called What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship and Love. Released in 2005, it became a New York Times bestseller.<ref name=":0" /> From 2012 to 2018, Radziwiłł appeared as a main cast member on the Bravo reality series The Real Housewives of New York City.

Early life and education

Carole Ann DiFalco was born on August 20, 1963, and grew up in a working-class family in Suffern, New York. She is of Italian descent.<ref name="DB06042012">Template:Cite news</ref> She earned a B.A. in English at Hunter College and an M.B.A. at New York University.<ref name="Vogue 2005-10-10 age 42" />

Career

Journalism and writing

Radziwiłł began her news career at ABC in New York, in 1985, as an intern in postproduction for 20/20, a news magazine show.<ref name="Radziwill 2005 63–64">Template:Cite book</ref> She was later assigned to Close Up as a production secretary. Radziwiłł eventually worked for Peter Jennings' documentary unit, producing shows on abortion and gun control, and covering foreign policy stories in Cambodia, Haiti, and India.<ref name=KTTVFox1103052014 />

In 1991, Radziwiłł was stationed in Iraq and reported on the SCUD missile attacks during the Gulf War. In 2003, during the War in Afghanistan, she spent six weeks in Kandahar, embedded with an infantry unit of the 101st Airborne Division. She produced segments for an ABC-TV show called Profiles from the Frontline. Radziwiłł has won several awards, including three Emmys, one for a story she produced on land mines in Cambodia, a Peabody,<ref name="KTTVFox1103052014" /> and a GLAAD award.<ref name="vulture">Template:Cite news</ref>

After her husband's death, Radziwiłł left ABC News to write a memoir about her personal life, her career at ABC News, as well as her effort to manage her husband's cancer. What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship and Love (Scribner, 2005) made the New York Times Best Seller List.<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> A review of the book in The New York Times called it a "bittersweet account" that emphasized "graciousness over disclosure."<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Radziwiłł signed with Glamour magazine to write a monthly column called Lunch Date.<ref name=":0" /> Her “Lunch Dates” have included former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani<ref name="ld_guiliani">Template:Cite news</ref> and Hollywood actors Antonio Banderas,<ref name="ld_banderas">Template:Cite news</ref> Rachel Weisz,<ref name="ld_weisz">Template:Cite news</ref> and Alec Baldwin.<ref name="ld_baldwin">Template:Cite news</ref>

She sold her first novel, The Widow's Guide to Sex & Dating, to Holt Publishing. It was released on February 11, 2014.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Reality TV

In 2011, Radziwiłł joined the cast of Bravo TV's The Real Housewives of New York City.<ref name=KTTVFox1103052014>Template:Cite news</ref> On July 25, 2018, she announced she was leaving the show after six seasons (seasons 5–10). Radziwiłł said she wanted to go back to journalism.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Personal life

On August 27, 1994, she and her fellow ABC News producer, Anthony Radziwiłł, son of socialite Lee Radziwill and nephew of former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, married in East Hampton, New York.<ref name="marriage">Template:Cite news</ref> Her husband died of cancer on August 10, 1999.

Radziwiłł dated Aerosmith producer Russ Irwin and appeared in the video for his 2012 song "Manhattan." Irwin appeared occasionally on Bravo's "The Real Housewives of New York City" beginning in season 5.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite AV media</ref>

In 2014, Radziwiłł started dating chef Adam Kenworthy. The pair dated on and off before announcing their split in 2017.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Following the arrest of socialite Ghislaine Maxwell for sex trafficking, images of Radziwiłł photographed with Maxwell resurfaced online.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Radziwiłł also appears in the contact book of American financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Radziwiłł stated she was "friendly" with Maxwell in the early 2000s, but has not spoken with her in over a decade. Radziwiłł denied knowing Epstein and stated she was unaware of any misconduct.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

External links

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• "The Cartier Curse" Radziwill tells the story of Jackie Kennedy's Cartier tank wristwatch, which Radziwill later owned. (14 min. audio, via The Moth)