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==Personal life== Before marrying, Zuckerman's dating history included writers [[Betty Rollin]], [[Nora Ephron]], [[Arianna Huffington|Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington]] and a four-year relationship with feminist activist [[Gloria Steinem]] in the late 1980s, early 1990s.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Nicolaou |first=Elena |date=April 15, 2020 |title="Mrs. America's" Gloria Steinem Is Still Fighting For Equality Today |url=https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/tv-movies/a32121106/gloria-steinem-facts/ |access-date=August 29, 2022 |website=Oprah Daily |language=en-us}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=McDermott |first=Kerry |date=September 10, 2020 |title=It's Okay To Be Obsessed With Gloria Steinem's Style |url=https://www.vogue.co.uk/fashion/article/gloria-steinem-style |access-date=August 29, 2022 |website=British Vogue |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Mort Zuckerman and Gloria Steinem during Wedding of Abe Rosenthal &... |url=https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/mort-zuckerman-and-gloria-steinem-during-wedding-of-abe-news-photo/105852282 |access-date=August 29, 2022 |website=Getty Images |date=October 21, 2010 |language=en-gb}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Denes |first=Melissa |date=January 17, 2005 |title='Feminism? It's hardly begun' |url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/jan/17/gender.melissadenes |access-date=August 29, 2022 |website=The Guardian |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last1=R |first1=Eleanor |last2=olph |date=May 1, 1989 |title=CITIZEN ZUCKERMAN AND HIS NEVER-ENDING SEARCH |language=en-US |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1989/05/01/citizen-zuckerman-and-his-never-ending-search/b9ce8de4-d725-42ba-95d0-b24840cc3977/ |access-date=August 29, 2022 |issn=0190-8286}}</ref> In 1996 Zuckerman married Marla Prather, a curator of the National Gallery of Art.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05EEDF123CF93AA1575AC0A960958260 |work=The New York Times |title=Marla Prather, Mortimer Zuckerman |date=September 29, 1996 |access-date=May 13, 2010}}</ref> The couple divorced in 2001, and Prather later married lawyer [[Jonathan D. Schiller]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Golson |first=Blair |date=July 1, 2002 |title=Munificent Mortimer |url=https://observer.com/2002/07/munificent-mortimer/ |access-date=June 16, 2022 |website=Observer |language=en-US}}</ref> Zuckerman became a US citizen in 1977.<ref name="forbes"/> On the November 28, 2014, episode of ''[[The McLaughlin Group]]'', Zuckerman said he was a [[vegan]] and has been since 2008,<ref>{{cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvwZv1jBHAM&list=UUHUco2KL1kMdNjjDyORHiFw#t=804 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211222/BvwZv1jBHAM |archive-date=December 22, 2021 |url-status=live|title=The McLaughlin Group 11/28/14 |date=November 29, 2014 |work=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref> confirming what in November 2010 had been published in ''[[Bloomberg Businessweek]]'', "The Rise of the Power Vegans."<ref>{{cite web |last=Stein |first=Joel |date=4 November 2010 |title=The Rise of the Power Vegans |url=http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_46/b4203103862097.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101105224859/http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_46/b4203103862097.htm |archive-date=November 5, 2010 |work=Businessweek}}</ref> Zuckerman last appeared on ''The McLaughlin Group'' on July 31, 2015, making a case for Texas governor [[Rick Perry]]'s presidential run during that episode. A day later Zuckerman issued a statement that he would not be appearing at the East Hampton Artists-Writers [[softball]] game, the first time he would miss the game since 1993. The same month, the ''New York Post'' reported he turned over the sale of the ''New York Daily News'' to his nephews and has commented minimally on its dissolution.{{Cn|date=April 2025}}
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