Editing Kimberly Quinn

{{short description|American journalist}}
{{For|the actress|Kimberly Quinn (actress)}}
{{infobox person
|name=Kimberly Quinn
|birth_name=Kimberly Solomon
|birth_date={{birth year and age|1961}}
|birth_place=[[Los Angeles]], [[California]], U.S.
|alma_mater=[[Vassar College]]
|occupation={{flatlist|
*Journalist
*political commentator
*magazine publisher and writer
}}
|spouse={{plainlist|
* {{marriage|Michael Fortier|1987|2000|end=div}}
* {{marriage|Stephen Quinn|2001}}
}}
|children=2
|parents=[[Lugene Sanders]]<br>Marvin Solomon
}}
'''Kimberly Quinn''' (formerly '''Fortier'''; ''née'' '''Solomon'''; born 1961) is an American [[journalist]], [[political commentator|commentator]] and [[magazine]] [[publisher]] and writer; latterly the publisher of British conservative news magazine ''[[The Spectator]]''.

==Early life==
A native of [[Los Angeles]], [[California]], she is one of two daughters of businessman Marvin Solomon and actress [[Lugene Sanders]]. She is of Jewish heritage.<ref name=dt261005>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1501479/My-son-attends-a-Jewish-nursery-says-Blunkett.html|title=My son attends a Jewish nursery, says Blunkett|last1=Womack|first1=Sarah|last2=Petre|first2=Jonathan|date=26 October 2005|accessdate=9 November 2019|work=Daily Telegraph|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191109141634/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1501479/My-son-attends-a-Jewish-nursery-says-Blunkett.html|archive-date=9 November 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> She majored in Victorian Studies at [[Vassar College]].

==Professional career==
She has written for ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'', ''[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]'' and UK newspapers ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'', ''[[The Times]]'', ''[[Evening Standard]]'', and ''[[The Independent]]''. She was the Communications and marketing director for [[Condé Nast Publications]] in the UK. She took her position at ''The Spectator'' in 1996. On 24 November 2006, Kimberly Quinn resigned from her post at ''The Spectator''.

She has written a series of time travel adventures for young adults; the Chronicles of the Tempus series. The first work, ''The Queen Must Die'' (2010) was followed by ''The Queen at War'' (2013).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.theweek.co.uk/people/40349/kimberly-quinn-becomes-author |title=News editor Kimberly Quinn becomes an author |access-date=2012-06-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140106125734/http://www.theweek.co.uk/people/40349/kimberly-quinn-becomes-author |archive-date=2014-01-06 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.thebookseller.com/news/atlantic-makes-childrens-move.html |title=News at thebookseller.com |access-date=2012-06-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120107033956/http://www.thebookseller.com/news/atlantic-makes-childrens-move.html |archive-date=2012-01-07 |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Personal life==
In 1987, Quinn married American [[investment banker]] Michael Fortier; the couple divorced in 2000, following revelations of her affair with Stephen Quinn, publisher of ''Vogue'' and ''[[Gentlemen's Quarterly|GQ]]'' magazines. In 2001, she married Quinn; during this marriage, she had an affair with [[David Blunkett]], [[Home Secretary]] in [[Second Blair ministry|Tony Blair's ministry]]. Quinn's three-year affair with David Blunkett ended acrimoniously in mid-2004. The affair was revealed by the ''[[News of the World]]'' in August 2004, according to the prosecution in the ''[[R v Brooks, Coulson and six others]]'' trial in October 2013, after the newspaper had intercepted [[voicemail]]s.<ref>Nick Davies [https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/07/david-blunkett-taped-by-news-of-the-world "Phone-hacking trial told NoW safe held intimate details of David Blunkett affair"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170510221717/https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/07/david-blunkett-taped-by-news-of-the-world |date=2017-05-10 }}, ''The Guardian'', 7 November 2013</ref>

During that period, Quinn gave birth to one son and became pregnant with a second child. The paternity of the two children became a matter of dispute. Blunkett's paternity of Quinn's elder child, William, was confirmed by DNA tests. Following the end of the affair between Quinn and Blunkett, moves by him to gain informal access to the first child were rejected by Quinn, and in early December 2004 Blunkett petitioned the [[Family Division]] of the [[High Court of Justice|High Court]] to grant him legal access. Controversy around a number of matters arising from the affair, particularly concerns over the handling of the visa of Quinn's nanny, contributed to Blunkett's resignation in mid-December 2004.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4112109.stm "Blunkett office 'sped nanny visa'"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170829184620/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4112109.stm |date=2017-08-29 }}, BBC News, 21 December 2004</ref> Shortly after Blunkett's resignation, it was revealed by the ''News of the World'' that Quinn had also had an affair with [[Simon Hoggart]], a political journalist and regular contributor to ''The Spectator''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1479401/Third-man-confesses-in-the-Quinn-affair.html|title=Third man confesses in the Quinn affair|work=Telegraph.co.uk|location=London|date=20 December 2004|accessdate=5 August 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181003160237/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1479401/Third-man-confesses-in-the-Quinn-affair.html|archive-date=3 October 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>

In February 2005, Quinn gave birth to a second son, Lorcan Quinn. A month later, Blunkett announced that DNA tests had revealed he was not the father of Quinn's second child.<ref>[http://www.courtservice.gov.uk/View.do?id=2946 Official ''Court Service'' report on the paternity case] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041217085241/http://www.courtservice.gov.uk/View.do?id=2946 |date=2004-12-17 }}</ref> Blunkett has said that Quinn's elder son attended a Jewish nursery.<ref name="dt261005"/>

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