Vicky Ward Explained

Vicky Ward
Birth Name:Victoria Penelope Jane Ward
Birth Date:1969 7, df=yes
Birth Place:Chelmsford, England
Occupation:Investigative journalist
author
columnist
editor
commentator
Employer:CNN
Citizenship:United States
Alma Mater:Trinity Hall, Cambridge
Children:2

Victoria Penelope Jane Ward (born 3 July 1969)[1] is a British-born American author, investigative journalist, editor-at-large, and television commentator. She was a Senior Reporter at CNN and a former magazine and newspaper editor who has featured in The New York Times Best Seller list.

Early life and education

Vicky Ward was born Victoria Penelope Jane Ward on 3 July 1969 in Chelmsford, Essex. She is the daughter of Simon Charles Ward, a retired London financier,[2] and Myrtle Ward, a graduate of Trinity College Dublin. She has two younger sisters, Antonia Ward and Lucinda Ward.[3] Ward attended Benenden School from 1983 to 1987 and later earned a BA and MA in English literature from Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge during 1988–1991.[4]

Career

Prior to moving to the U.S. in 1997, Ward was a columnist and feature writer for The Independent, a British newspaper. In New York City, she was the features and news features editor of the New York Post (1999–2001) and Tina Brown's executive editor at Talk (2000–2001).

Ward worked as a contributing editor to Vanity Fair (2001–2012) as well as a columnist for the London Evening Standard (2007–2011). Her Vanity Fair articles covered a wide array of subject matter: politics, finance, art, and culture and society.[5] Among other things, she wrote about Hewlett Packard, Morgan Stanley, Bruce Wasserstein, a failed coup in Africa, Kate Middleton, Valerie Plame, counter-terrorist czar Dick Clarke, Brooke Astor, Veronica Hearst, the Guggenheim, the Getty, Phillips de Pury Luxembourg, St. Barths, Vivendi, Jeffrey Epstein, Washington interns, the Fairfield Greenwich hedge fund and Bernie Madoff.

From July 2017 to July 2019, Ward served as editor-at-large for HuffPost and Huffington Post Highline, their long-form magazine. HuffPost exclusives written by Ward included interviews with Blackwater's Erik Prince,[6] Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen,[7] and Anthony Scaramucci on the White House and why he was fired.[8] For The Huffington Post Highline, Ward wrote articles about Vice President Mike Pence's Chief of Staff, Nick Ayers[9] and Robert and Rebekah Mercer's influence in the 2016 election.[10] Charlie Rose later interviewed her on this piece.

In July 2019, Ward was named Senior Reporter at CNN.[11] For CNN, her reporting included pieces on the rise of the Jeffrey Epstein mystique,[12] the scrutiny of Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale's business ties,[13] and a look at Donald Trump's ongoing fight to keep his tax returns private.[14]

Ward is also editor-at-large at Town & Country magazine, where she writes about culture. Her pieces have included an article on the late, seminal Russian art collector Sergei Shchukin,[15] Frank Gehry's first-ever sailboat design,[16] and a $2 billion fraud in the modern art world including the Knoedler art trial.[17]

In 2016, Ward wrote investigative long-form articles for Esquire including a profile of the Russian-born cyber-terrorism expert Dmitri Alperovitch, and a piece on senior presidential aide Jared Kushner,[18] [19] about whom she later, in 2019, wrote a book.

Ward has contributed to, among others, the Financial Times, The New York Times, the London Times, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, the UK Spectator magazine, British Vogue, US Harper's Bazaar and Porter. She has also had on-air contracts with CNBC and Bloomberg TV. She appears regularly on MSNBC's Morning Joe.

Ward is the author of three books: the New York Times bestseller The Devil's Casino in 2010,[20] The Liar's Ball in 2014, and the New York Times bestseller Kushner, Inc.: Greed. Ambition. Corruption. in 2019.[21] Centering on the story of real estate developer Harry Macklowe, The Liar's Ball was reported to be in development as a feature film by J.C. Chandor and A24 Productions.[22]

Ward appeared in the 2017 documentary film Blurred Lines: Inside the Art World.[23]

In 2019, Ward said her 2003 profile of Jeffrey Epstein in Vanity Fair had included on-the-record accounts of Annie and Maria Farmer (who filed the earliest known criminal complaints about Epstein), but that they were later stricken from Ward's article after Epstein pressured the magazine's editor Graydon Carter.[24] [25] While researching Epstein, Ward was pregnant with twins and reported that she felt compelled to hire security protection for their neonatal intensive care unit after Epstein had threatened their wellbeing.[26] [27] [28]

In June 2020, she joined the Council on Foreign Relations[29] She is the host and producer of Chasing Ghislaine, which was released July 15, 2021 as an Audible Original podcast (and hit

  1. 5 on Audible's Weekly Bestsellers List
) and as docuseries premiering on discovery+ on November 22, 2021 and ID on December 3, 2021. On November 29, 2021, she launched the Substack newsletter "Vicky Ward Investigates". She is the host and co-producer of the Audible Original podcast Pipeline to Power: The 40-Year Plan to Capture the Supreme Court.[30] She is at work on a book about the 2022 killing of four University of Idaho students, co-authored with the best-selling novelist James Patterson.[31] In September 2023, she was appointed as a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford. [32]

Bibliography

Personal life

Ward met Matthew Doull in the 1990s when both were working at The Daily Telegraph.[33] They have two children together, twins Orlando and Lorcán, born in early 2003.[34] Ward and Doull later divorced. Ward has lived in New York City since 1997, and is a naturalized U.S. citizen as of 2017.[35]

A portrait of Ward, taken by photographer Jason Bell, was exhibited in the British National Portrait Gallery in 2011 as part of Bell's series "An Englishman in New York".[36] The series, including the portrait of Ward, was also published as a book by the same title.

Further reading

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Vicky Ward - National Portrait Gallery. npg.org.uk. en. 12 February 2020. 21 June 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200621105209/https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp124930/victoria-penelope-jane-vicky-ward. live.
  2. News: Hampson. Sarah. Vicky Ward: Wall Street tattler. 19 April 2010. The Globe and Mail. 15 February 2020. 11 November 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201111210229/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/vicky-ward-wall-street-tattler/article1366948/. live.
  3. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage: 107th Edition volume 1, page 1360
  4. Web site: Vicky Ward Speaker, Keynote, Booking Agent, Bureau . Speakers.com . 12 February 2020 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20200212233440/https://www.speakers.com/Speaker/Vicky-Ward-speaker-biography . 12 February 2020 .
  5. Web site: Articles. Vicky Ward. 13 February 2020. 31 March 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200331125904/http://vickyward.com/articles/vanity-fair/. live.
  6. Web site: Blackwater's Erik Prince On How He Got Into The White House. Ward. Vicky. 31 August 2017. HuffPost. en. 14 February 2020. 15 February 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200215001639/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/erik-prince-interview-afghanistan_n_59a8289ae4b07e81d355d849. live.
  7. Web site: Michael Cohen Speaks: Trump Exec Admits Russia Dealings Were Gross, But Not Illegal. August 30, 2017. Vicky Ward. 7 January 2019. 24 March 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190324153846/https://vickyward.com/article/michael-cohen-speaks-trump-exec-admits-russia-dealings-were-gross-but-not-illegal/. live.
  8. Web site: Why The Mooch Lost His Cool. August 1, 2017. Vicky Ward. 7 January 2019. 24 March 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190324153837/https://vickyward.com/article/why-the-mooch-lost-his-cool/. live.
  9. Web site: Mike Pence's Man In The Swamp . March 15, 2018 . Ward . Vicky . HuffPost . Highline . 7 January 2019 . 5 April 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190405181436/https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/nick-ayers-mike-pence/ . live .
  10. Web site: The Blow-It-All-Up Billionaires. March 17, 2017. Vicky Ward. 7 January 2019. 24 March 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190324153843/https://vickyward.com/article/the-blow-it-all-up-billionaires/. live.
  11. Web site: HuffPost Editor-at-Large Vicky Ward Is Joining CNN as Senior Reporter. Katz. A. J.. 29 July 2019. TVNewser . Adweek . en-US. 13 February 2020.
  12. Web site: CNN Exclusive: The rise of the Jeffrey Epstein mystique. Ward. Vicky. 13 August 2019. CNN. 13 February 2020. 8 December 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191208152220/https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/13/politics/epstein-wexner-maxwell-trust-conspiracy/index.html. live.
  13. Web site: Pro-Trump super PAC paid thousands to firm owned by Trump's campaign manager. Ward. Vicky. 30 August 2019. CNN. 13 February 2020. 5 October 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20211005060530/https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/30/politics/pro-trump-super-pac-paid-thousands-to-firm-owned-by-brad-parscales-wife/index.html. live.
  14. Web site: Vicky. Ward. Trump wanted to release his taxes in 2013 to show how smart he was for paying so little. 14 October 2019. 3 November 2020. CNN. 8 December 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201208014153/https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/14/politics/trump-originally-wanted-to-release-tax-returns/index.html. live.
  15. Web site: How a Russian Collector Changed the Course of Modern Art . September 9, 2016 . Vicky Ward . 7 January 2019 . 24 March 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190324153839/https://vickyward.com/article/how-a-russian-collector-changed-the-course-of-modern-art/ . live .
  16. Web site: Frank Gehry's First-Ever Yacht Looks Like Nothing You've Ever Seen . Vicky Ward . October 5, 2015 . 7 January 2019 . 24 March 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190324153834/https://vickyward.com/article/frank-gehrys-first-ever-yacht-looks-like-nothing-youve-ever-seen/ . live .
  17. Web site: Inside the Trial All the Billionaires Are Watching . February 2, 2016 . Vicky Ward . 7 January 2019 . 24 March 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190324153840/https://vickyward.com/article/inside-the-trial-all-the-billionaires-are-watching/ . live .
  18. Web site: Ward . Vicky . 18 August 2016 . Jared Kushner's Second Act . 14 February 2020 . Esquire . en-US . 15 February 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200215095930/https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a47697/jared-kushner-trump-campaign/ . live .
  19. Web site: The Russian Expat Leading the Fight to Protect America . Ward. Vicky. 24 October 2016. Esquire. en-US. 14 February 2020 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20200303230743/https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a49902/the-russian-emigre-leading-the-fight-to-protect-america/ . Mar 3, 2020 .
  20. Web site: The Devil's Casino. Vicky Ward. 7 January 2019. 24 March 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190324153841/https://vickyward.com/books/the-devils-casino/. live.
  21. Web site: Kushner, Inc.. Vicky Ward. 8 April 2019. 31 March 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190331023218/https://vickyward.com/books/kushner-inc/. live.
  22. Web site: J.C. Chandor On Dance Card For A24's 'The Liar's Ball'. Busch. Anita. 9 June 2015. Deadline Hollywood. en. 7 January 2019. 24 March 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190324153828/https://deadline.com/2015/06/the-liars-ball-movie-j-c-chandor-a24-vicky-ward-1201440018/. live.
  23. Web site: Vicky Ward. IMDb. 12 February 2020. 19 June 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240619214434/https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3164057/. live.
  24. News: Tracy. Marc. Ex-Vanity Fair Writer Says Editor Stopped Her From Exposing Epstein in '03. 9 July 2019. The New York Times. 14 February 2020. en-US. 0362-4331. 13 February 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200213173350/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/09/business/media/vicky-ward-jeffrey-epstein-vanity-fair.html. live.
  25. Web site: Why 'Vanity Fair' Story Left Out Abuse Allegations Against Epstein. Folkenflik. David. 22 August 2019. NPR. en. 14 February 2020. 30 November 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191130224713/https://www.npr.org/2019/08/22/753337520/why-the-media-didnt-pay-much-attention-to-jeffrey-epstein. live.
  26. News: Pilkington. Ed. Jeffrey Epstein: how US media – with one star exception – whitewashed the story. 13 July 2019. The Guardian. 17 February 2020. en-GB. 0261-3077. 19 June 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240619214419/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/13/jeffrey-epstein-alex-acosta-miami-herald-media. live.
  27. Web site: Jeffrey Epstein, a Billionaire Friend of Presidents Trump & Clinton, Arrested for Sex Trafficking. Democracy Now!. en. 17 February 2020. 19 June 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240619214300/https://www.democracynow.org/2019/7/8/jeffrey_epstein_a_billionaire_friend_of. live.
  28. News: Ward. Vicky. I Tried to Warn You About Sleazy Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein in 2003. 7 January 2015. The Daily Beast. 17 February 2020. en. 19 June 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240619214422/https://www.thedailybeast.com/i-tried-to-warn-you-about-sleazy-billionaire-jeffrey-epstein-in-2003. live.
  29. Web site: Council on Foreign Relations. 2021-03-18. Council on Foreign Relations. en. 19 April 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170419082313/http://www.cfr.org/about/membership/roster.html?letter=D. live.
  30. Web site: Pipeline to Power by Vicky Ward - Audiobook - Audible.com. 21 September 2023. 11 October 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20231011101103/https://www.audible.com/pd/Pipeline-to-Power-Audiobook/B0CFYTTD8B. live.
  31. Web site: 2023-05-19 . Novelist James Patterson, journalist Vicky Ward plan book on killing of Idaho college students . 2023-06-21 . AP NEWS . en . 25 May 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230525194156/https://apnews.com/article/james-patterson-idaho-students-murder-e19b518697f40497f3ee3377308261d7 . live .
  32. Web site: Visiting Fellows | Saïd Business School. www.sbs.ox.ac.uk. 1 September 2023. 3 September 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230903141447/https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/research/centres-and-initiatives/oxford-university-centre-corporate-reputation/visiting-fellows. live.
  33. Web site: Vicky Ward and Matthew Doull's wedding. 1 October 1995. Tatler. 14 February 2020. 22 June 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200622160050/https://www.tatler.com/gallery/vicky-ward-and-matthew-doulls-wedding. live.
  34. Web site: Ward . Vicky . The Devil's Casino . 8 July 2019 . 21 June 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200621200719/http://kadamaee.ir/payesh/books-tank/13/Ward%20-%20The%20Devil%27s%20Casino%3B%20Friendship%2C%20Betrayal%2C%20and%20the%20High-Stakes%20Games%20Played%20Inside%20Lehman%20Brothers%20%282010%29.pdf . dead .
  35. Web site: Vicky Ward - Senior Reporter. CNN Profiles . 14 February 2020 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20200219085053/https://www.cnn.com/profiles/vicky-ward . Feb 19, 2020 .
  36. News: An Englishman in New York. 14 August 2010. The Guardian. 14 February 2020. 24 March 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190324153828/https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2010/aug/15/photography-new-york-expats. live.

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