1. Anne Sinclair hosted one of the most popular political shows for more than thirteen years on TF1, the largest European private TV channel.
18 Facts About Anne Sinclair
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Anne Sinclair is heiress to much of the fortune of her maternal grandfather, art dealer Paul Rosenberg.
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Anne Sinclair covered the 2008 US presidential campaign for the French Sunday newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche and the French TV channel Canal+.
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Anne Sinclair married French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn in 1991 and divorced him in 2013 in the aftermath of the New York v Strauss-Kahn case.
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Anne Sinclair was portrayed in the 2014 feature film Welcome to New York.
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Anne Sinclair majored in politics at Sciences Po and in law at the University of Paris.
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Anne Sinclair became one of the country's best known journalists and conducted more than five hundred interviews over the course of the show's thirteen-year run.
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Anne Sinclair interviewed French presidents Francois Mitterrand and Nicolas Sarkozy as well as US president Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev, Shimon Peres, Felipe Gonzalez, German chancellors Helmut Kohl and Gerhard Schroder, King Hassan II of Morocco, Hillary Clinton, the UN Secretary General in New York during the first gulf war, and Prince Charles.
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Anne Sinclair conducted interviews with French cultural figures such as Johnny Hallyday, Alain Delon, Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Bernard-Henri Levy, and Elie Wiesel.
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Anne Sinclair won three Sept d'Ors, the French equivalent of the Emmy Awards.
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Anne Sinclair then created an Internet subsidiary company for her former employer TF1 and ran it for four years before returning to journalism.
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Anne Sinclair wrote bestsellers on politics: Deux ou trois choses que je sais d'eux and Camera Subjective.
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Anne Sinclair lost many of these paintings after fleeing France for New York in 1940 with her parents, but managed to retain a number of works which he had distributed on noting the growing threat of war in the late 1930s.
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Anne Sinclair sold an unwanted Matisse from her private collection in the same year, which raised in excess of $33M.
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In October 1997, Rosenberg's heirs including Anne Sinclair filed suit in United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, Seattle, to recover the painting Odalisque by Matisse, the first lawsuit against an American museum concerning ownership of art looted by Nazis during World War II.
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Anne Sinclair's trial made public the couple's joint ownership of homes in Place des Vosges; a $4 million townhouse in Georgetown, Washington, DC; and a house within a compound in Marrakesh, Morocco.
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Since the separation from Strauss-Kahn, Anne Sinclair has been living with the French historian Pierre Nora.
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Anne Sinclair resumed public life with a memoir of her grandfather, My Grandfather's Gallery, in 2014.