Michael Wolff

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Michael Wolff (born August 27, 1953) is an American writer, essayist, journalist, and a contributor to USA Today, The Hollywood Reporter, and the UK edition of GQ. He has been nominated for two National Magazine Awards, a Mirror Award, and seven books have been published, including Burn Rate (1998) about his own dot-com firm and The Man Who Owns the News (2008), a biography of Rupert Murdoch.

He co-founded Newser, a news aggregation site, and he is a former Adweek editor. In January 2018, Wolff's book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, which included unflattering accounts of behavior by US President Donald Trump, tumultuous interactions within the White House, and former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon's derogatory remarks about the Trump family.

The book was quickly adopted as the New York Times' top-one bestseller after being released on January 5.

Early life

Michael Wolff was born in Paterson, New Jersey, the son of Lewis Allen Wolff (1920–1984), an advertising specialist, and Marguerite (Van) Wolff (1925–2012) a reporter for Paterson Evening News. Wolff graduated from Montclair Academy (now Montclair Kimberley Academy) in 1971, where he served as the student council president in his senior year. He attended Vassar College and Columbia University, where he graduated in 1975. When he was a student at Columbia, he worked with The New York Times as a copy boy.

Personal life

Wolff was previously married to actress Alison Anthoine. Wolff and Antoine are the parents of three children. He is now married to Victoria Floethe and they have two children.

Louise Wolff and Floethe are the parents of Louise Wolff, who was born in 2015.

Susanna Wolff, his daughter, was the editor-in-chief of CollegeHumor.

Wolff is well-known for his pugnacious demeanor, and he has been ejected from several New York City restaurants, according to reports.

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Career

In 1974, he published his first magazine article in New York City News Magazine, a biography of Angela Atwood, a neighbor of his brother who helped kidnap Patricia Hearst as a member of the Symbionese Liberation Army. He left the Times and became a contributing writer to the New Times, a bi-weekly news magazine founded by Jon Larsen and George Hirsch shortly afterward. White Kids (1979), a collection of essays, was Wolff's first book.

Wolff formed Michael Wolff & Company, Inc., in 1991, specializing in book-packaging. Where We Stand, it's first book, was a book that appeared in a PBS companion series. The company's next big project was to produce one of the first internet guides, but in book form. Random House brought together a Net Guide to Net.

Wolff's start-up Internet business, Wolff New Media, released a book in the fall of 1998 that rehearsed the specifics of Wolff's start-up Internet business, Burn Rate, which outlined the company's start-up Internet company, Wolff New Media's start-up Internet business. The book became a best-seller. Wolff's book Burn Rate was chastised for "apparent factual mistakes" and said that 13 people, including celebrities who he mentioned, had "invented or changed quotes."

Wolff was recruited by New York magazine in August 1998 to write a weekly column. Judith Regan, a book publisher, and entrepreneur Steven Brill, among other things, wrote more than 300 columns over the next six years.

Wolff has been nominated for the National Magazine Award three times before, twice winning twice. He received his second National Magazine Award for a series of columns he wrote from the media center in the Persian Gulf during the Iraq war, which began in 2003. The book, Autumn of the Moguls (2004), which forecast the mainstream media crisis that would come later this decade, was based on several of his New York magazine columns.

Wolff, one of the magazine's founders, acquired Primedia Inc. in 2004, and he helped bring together a group of investors, including New York Daily News publisher Mortimer Zuckerman, to help him buy the magazine. Primedia believed it had made a good bid, but the investment banker Bruce Wasserstein sold the issue.

Wolff was "uninterested in the working press," Michelle Cottle wrote about "the key players—the moguls" and was "fixed on culture, style, excitement, and money, good and furious" in a 2004 cover story for The New Republic, and was "fixated on culture, style, buzz, and money, and resources. "The scenes in his columns aren't recreated so much as created," Wolff's imagination rather than real knowledge of events, prompting him to question whether there is a central point."

Wolff was the editor of Vanity Fair in 2005 and became its first columnist. Patrick Spain, the founding of Hoover's, and Caroline Miller, the former editor-in-chief of New York's newspaper, founded Newser, a news aggregator website in 2007.

He also wrote a biography of Rupert Murdoch, The Man Who Owns the News, based on more than 50 hours of talk with Murdoch and his extended network. In 2008, the book was first published. Wolff began working as a weekly columnist for The Industry Standard, an IDG-owned Internet trade journal. Wolff was "far less circumspect" than most other journalists, according to David Carr, who wrote a review in a Business Insider review.

Wolff was given a 2010 Mirror Award for his contribution to Vanity Fair.

Wolff was chastised in 2010 for implying that The New York Times was aggressively covering the breaking News International phone hacking scandal as a means of criticizing News Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch.

Wolff became the editor of Adweek's advertising trade journal Adweek in 2010. One year later, he was asked to resign as editor of "what this magazine should be."

Wolff's book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House was published in early January 2018. Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon's excerpts from an excerpt that were released before publication included unflattering descriptions of US President Donald Trump's behavior, chaotic interactions within the White House, and derogatory remarks about the Trump family. Trump's unexpected publication and his humiliating portrait of Trump prompted Trump and his counsel Charles Harder to file a cease and desist letter exposing unverified facts, defamation, and malice, as well as litigation against Wolff, his publisher Henry Holt and Company, and Bannon, which resulted in pre-launch book sales. Elizabeth McNamara, Henry Holt's attorney, responded to Harder's allegations by announcing that no apology or retraction would be forthcoming, while simultaneously noting that Harder's complaint contained no particular errors in Wolff's text. "As citizens, we must insist that President Trump understand and abide by the First Amendment of our Constitution," Macmillan-Holt's chief executive told the newspaper's workers.

According to other attorneys and a scholar, the threats of a lawsuit by Trump against a book blogger and publisher were unprecedented by a sitting president attempting to reduce freedom of expression guaranteed by the First Amendment. The book and e-book were the best-selling or ordered books on Amazon.com and the Apple iBooks Store before its launch on January 5, and by January 8, over one million books had been sold or ordered by that time.

Siege: Trump Under Fire, Wolff's book, was published on June 4, 2019. He argues that the Justice Department had prepared indictment papers against Trump in March 2018, accusing him of three criminal charges relating to interfering with a pending probe and witness tampering. Robert Mueller, the Special Counsel, is expected to have been waiting on these draft indictments for a year before determining that Justice Department policy would prevent such an arrest. "The documents referred to do not exist," Mueller spokesman Peter Carr said, referring to the ostensibly three-count charging paper against Trump.

When being interviewed during Fire and Fury's press tour, Wolff said he was "100 percent positive" President Trump was having an affair and that he told his companion, Nikki Haley, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, on two occasions. Wolff denied Wolff's allegations, calling them "disgusting." Wolff was working in a "famous multimedia slime job," according to Washington Post editor Erik Wemple. Wolff's assertion was described by the New York Post editorial board as a "ugly, sexist rumor." Wolff was "ethically" spreading "evidence-free detail," Bari Weiss of The New York Times wrote. Wolff appeared on Ben Fordham's Australian morning show Today on February 25, 2018, where he was asked about his suspicion that Trump was having an affair behind Melania Trump's back. Wolff said he couldn't answer the question, causing Fordham to repeat it and finally ask, "You're not hearing me, Mr.

Wolff?"

Before removing his ear piece and walking away from the game, Wolff replied, "no, I'm not getting it." Both Fordham and the Today show later posted a video that included the audio from the ear piece, which revealed that the question could be heard. Wolff said "I don't know if the president is having an affair" after being asked in a college press tour interview, and "this is the last thing I say about it."

Several people have denied quotes from Fire and Fury. The following people include Tom Barrack, Tony Blair, Katie Walsh, and Anna Wintour. Donald Trump also denied that he allowed him to answer questions before interviewing him.

Since Wolff has been known not to investigate his sources, reporter David Brooks doubted Wolff's credibility. Brooks expressed reservations about Wolff's journalistic methods and voiced reservations about the authenticity of Fire and Fury.

In Fire and Fury, show host Meghan McCain chastised Wolff for publishing an off-the-track interview with Roger Ailes.

Wolff was described as a "unprincipled writer of fiction" by journalist Steven Rattner.

Siege, Feyf's book, was criticized by Alan Dershowitz, who called it fiction. According to Wolff, Dershowitz and Donald Trump met in the White House for dinner to discuss the possibility of representing him. However, Dershowitz said that this dinner never happened.

Angie Drobnic Holan, a PolitiFact writer, reported that Fire and Fury contained several factual errors, including that Trump didn't know who John Boehner was in 2016 (trump tweeted about Bohener in 2015) and that Wilbur Ross was Trump's pick for US Secretary of Labor (rather than Secretary of Commerce).

Since Nunberg had confessed to fabricating a tale about Chris Christie in the past, some questioned Wolff's use of Sam Nunberg as a source in Fire and Fury.

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