Maureen Orth has been a special correspondent for Vanity Fair since 1993. She started writing for the magazine in 1988 and became a contributing editor in 1989. Among the heads of state she has interviewed are Russian President Vladimir Putin, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Argentinian President Carlos Menem, and Irish President Mary Robinson. She has also profiled controversial figures such as Denise and Marc Rich, Harrod’s Mohamed Al Fayed, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, and Gerry Adams, as well as fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld and Madonna. Orth’s investigative story highlighting the role of Afghanistan’s illegal opium trade in funding terrorism has been lauded by the Office of Drug Control Policy. Her profile on murder suspect Andrew Cunanan for the September 1997 issue was the first in-depth report on the man who killed Versace. The article served as the basis for her book, Vulgar Favors (Delacorte Press, 1999). A film version of the story is also planned. Orth has also written investigative pieces regarding the allegations of sexual abuse by Michael Jackson and child abuse by Woody Allen.
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Prior to joining Vanity Fair, Orth was contributing editor at
Vogue from 1984 to 1989 and a columnist for New York Woman from 1986 to 1990.
From 1983 to 1984 she was a network correspondent for NBC News. In 1981 she was
the principal correspondent of Newsweek Woman on Lifetime cable TV. Prior to
that, she was a senior editor for New York and New West magazines. Orth worked
for Newsweek from 1973 to 1978, where she was the entertainment editor and the
lifestyle editor, and wrote seven cover stories. While at Newsweek she took a
leave of absence to be Italian director Lina Wertmuller’s assistant on the film
Seven Beauties. Orth has written for such publications as The Washington Post,
The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and Esquire. She was nominated for a National
Magazine Award in reporting for her article on Michael and Arianna Huffington,
which appeared in the November 1994 issue of Vanity Fair. While at Newsweek,
Orth won a National Magazine Award for group coverage of the arts. Ms. Orth
servered with the Peace Corps in Medellin, Columbia before beginning her
journalistic career. Maureen Orth lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband,
Tim Russert, the Washington bureau chief of NBC News and moderator of Meet the
Press, and their son, Luke |
