| Carole Radziwiłł | |
| Birth Name: | Carole Ann DiFalco |
| Birth Date: | 20 August 1963 |
| Known For: | ABC News The Real Housewives of New York City |
| Noble Family: | Radziwiłł |
Carole Ann Radziwiłł (pronounced as /pl/; ; born August 20, 1963) is an American journalist, author, and television personality. Throughout the course of nearly two decades working as a journalist and producer for ABC News, her reporting earned her three Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, and a GLAAD Media Award.
After leaving ABC News, she wrote a memoir, called What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship and Love. Released in 2005, it became a New York Times bestseller. From 2012 to 2018, Radziwiłł appeared as a main cast member on the Bravo reality series The Real Housewives of New York City.
Carole Ann DiFalco was born on August 20, 1963, and grew up in a working-class family in Suffern, New York. She is of Italian descent.[3] She earned a B.A. in English at Hunter College and an M.B.A. at New York University.
Radziwiłł began her news career at ABC in New York, in 1985, as an intern in postproduction for 20/20, a news magazine show.[4] She was later assigned to Close Up as a production secretary. Radziwiłł eventually worked for Peter Jennings' documentary unit, producing shows on abortion and gun control, and covering foreign policy stories in Cambodia, Haiti, and India.
In 1991, Radziwiłł was stationed in Iraq and reported on the SCUD missile attacks during the Gulf War. In 2003, during the War in Afghanistan, she spent six weeks in Kandahar, embedded with an infantry unit of the 101st Airborne Division. She produced segments for an ABC-TV show called Profiles from the Frontline. Radziwiłł has won several awards, including three Emmys, one for a story she produced on land mines in Cambodia, a Peabody, and a GLAAD award.[5]
After her husband's death, Radziwiłł left ABC News to write a memoir about her personal life, her career at ABC News, as well as her effort to manage her husband's cancer. What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship and Love (Scribner, 2005) made the New York Times Best Seller List.[6] A review of the book in The New York Times called it a "bittersweet account" that emphasized "graciousness over disclosure."[7] [8]
Radziwiłł signed with Glamour magazine to write a monthly column called Lunch Date. Her “Lunch Dates” have included former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani[9] and Hollywood actors Antonio Banderas,[10] Rachel Weisz,[11] and Alec Baldwin.[12]
She sold her first novel, The Widow's Guide to Sex & Dating, to Holt Publishing. It was released on February 11, 2014.[13]
In 2011, Radziwiłł joined the cast of Bravo TV's The Real Housewives of New York City.[14] On July 25, 2018, she announced she was leaving the show after six seasons (seasons 5–10). Radziwiłł said she wanted to go back to journalism.[15]
On August 27, 1994, she and her fellow ABC News producer, Prince Anthony Radziwiłł, son of socialite Lee Radziwiłł and nephew of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, married in East Hampton, New York.[16] Her husband died of cancer on August 10, 1999.
Radziwiłł briefly dated Aerosmith producer Russ Irwin. Irwin appeared on Bravo's "The Real Housewives of New York City", beginning in season 5.[17]
In 2014, Radziwiłł started dating chef Adam Kenworthy. The pair dated on and off before announcing their split in 2017.[18]
Following the arrest of socialite Ghislaine Maxwell for sex trafficking, images of Radziwiłł photographed with Maxwell resurfaced online.[19] [20] Radziwiłł also appears in the contact book of American financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.[21] Radziwiłł stated she was "friendly" with Maxwell in the early 2000s, but has not spoken with her in over a decade. Radziwiłł denied knowing Epstein and stated she was unaware of any misconduct.[22]