| Arianna Huffington  AKA Arianna Stassinopoulos
Born: 15-Jul-1950
Birthplace: Athens, Greece
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Columnist, Socialite
Party Affiliation: Independent [1] Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Huffington Post Arianna Huffington is columnist with a difficult-to-understand accent. She first came to moderate fame in California, as the strong, somewhat domineering wife of millionaire and 1994 Republican candidate for Senate Michael Huffington. He was defeated by Democrat Dianne Feinstein, and after the election Huffington's husband divorced her and announced himself to be gay.
Huffington started writing in her early 20s, but after her divorce the former Mrs Huffington went to work for arch-Republican Newt Gingrich. In the mid-1990s, her conservative newspaper column was syndicated, but with minimal success. Readers and editors were perplexed when, instead of being utterly predictable in her views, Huffington's columns began inching bit-by-bit to the left. By the turn of the millennium, she had reinvented herself as a liberal columnist.
Huffington has taken vicious but well-deserved jabs at Rush Limbaugh and George W. Bush, but also described the Democratic Party's leadership as being "in complete denial". She supports medical marijuana, hardly a controversial stand in California. She has criticized Florida Governor Jeb Bush for pulling strings to ensure that his drug-addled daughter Noelle Bush sidestepped all the normal legal penalties for her crimes. She calls for programs that genuinely support the troops, from increased medical benefits to mental health counseling for returning war vets. She wants America to abide by the Geneva Conventions, and has called for the closing of Guantanamo and other extralegal U.S.-operated prisons.
In 2003, Huffington put together a series of TV and print ads that parodied the White House's "drug war" ads, which had claimed that smoking pot was supporting terrorism. In Huffington's ads, she argued that SUV sales and the oceans of fuel needed to keep those vehicles rolling, funneled much more money to terrorist governments than any pot purchases.
[1] In 2003 Huffington ran for Governor of California, finishing far in the distance behind Arnold Schwarzenegger. She now describes herself as an independent, unaligned with either party. Father: Constantine
Mother: Elli
Sister: Agapi
Husband: Michael Huffington (m. Apr-1986, div. Jun-1997, two daughters)
Daughter: Christina
Daughter: Isabella
Boyfriend: Werner Erhard
Boyfriend: Mort Zuckerman
Boyfriend: Jerry Brown
Boyfriend: Bernard Levin (London Times, 8 years)
Boyfriend: David Murdock (billionaire)
University: MA Economics, Girton College, Cambridge University (1972)
The Huffington Post Founder (2005-)
California Recall Election
Bush-Quayle '92
Campaign for American Leadership in the Middle East
Center for American Progress
Drug Policy Alliance Honorary Board
International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences
The Reform Institute Advisory Board
Ordained Minister of the Movement for Spiritual Inner Awareness
Wedding: Michael Huffington and Arianna Stassinopoulos (1986)
Greek Ancestry
Risk Factors: Yoga
TELEVISION
Politically Incorrect Frequent Guest
The McLaughlin Group
To The Contrary Panelist
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
John Q (15-Feb-2002) Herself
Running Mates (13-Aug-2000) Herself
Ed TV (26-Mar-1999)
The Siege (6-Nov-1998)
Official Website:
http://www.ariannaonline.com/
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