Maureen Orth is a longtime special correspondent for Vanity Fair, profiling everyone from Madonna to Vladimir Putin. She began her career as one of the first woman writers at Newsweek, where she wrote seven cover stories and won a National Magazine Award. Her best-selling book, Vulgar Favors, was the basis of the Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning “American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace.”In 2004, she published The Importance of Being Famous: Behind the Scenes of the Celebrity-Industrial Complex that featured major investigative pieces on Michael Jackson and Woody Allen. A former Peace Corps volunteer, Ms. Orth founded the Marina Orth Foundation in Medellin, Colombia. In 2022, she was honored with Colombian citizenship. In 2016, she was named the Distinguished Alumnus of the Cal Alumni Club of Washington, D.C., and she received the Campanile Excellence in Achievement Award from UC Berkeley in 2021. Ms. Orth is a former trustee of the UC Berkeley Foundation and a Builder of Berkeley. She is currently at work on her memoir to be published by Crown Publishing Group.
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Special Correspondent, Vanity Fair Magazine
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