Arianna Huffington
Politician, Organization founder
1950 –
Who is Arianna Huffington?
Arianna Huffington is a Greek-American author and syndicated columnist. She is best known for her news website The Huffington Post. At one time a liberal democrat she later became a popular conservative commentator in the mid-1990s, after which she adopted liberal political beliefs in the late 1990s. She is the ex-wife of former Republican congressman Michael Huffington.
In 2003, she ran as an independent candidate for Governor in the California recall election.
In 2009, Huffington was named as number 12 in Forbes' first-ever list of the Most Influential Women In Media. She has also moved up to number 42 in The Guardian's Top 100 in Media List.
In 2011, AOL acquired The Huffington Post for US$315 million and made Huffington president and editor in chief of The Huffington Post Media Group, which included The Huffington Post and then-existing AOL properties such as Engadget, AOL Music, Patch Media, and StyleList.
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- Born
- Jul 15, 1950
Athens - Also known as
- Ariadne Anna Stassinopoulos
- arianna_huffington
- Arianna Stassinopoulos
- Arianna Stassinopoulou
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Michael Huffington
(1986/04/12 - 1997/06)
- Michael Huffington
- Children
- Religion
- Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness
- Ethnicity
- Greek American
- Nationality
- Greece
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- M.A., Girton College, Cambridge
Economics
( - 1972) - University of Cambridge
- M.A., Girton College, Cambridge
- Lived in
- California
- Athens
- England
- Washington, D.C.
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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