1. Barbara Amiel is married to former media proprietor Conrad Black.
24 Facts About Barbara Amiel
2.
Barbara Amiel's parents divorced when she was eight, after her father left her mother for another woman.
3.
Barbara Amiel attended North London Collegiate School in Edgware, Greater London, an independent girls' school.
4.
Barbara Amiel never saw her biological father again after her mother remarried.
5.
Barbara Amiel's family decided not to disclose this information; she did not discover the truth for three years.
6.
Barbara Amiel was then sympathetic to communism, and was a delegate in 1962 to the Soviet-organised World Festival of Youth and Students in Helsinki, Finland.
7.
Barbara Amiel first joined Maclean's magazine in 1976 working as a senior writer, associate editor and columnist.
8.
Barbara Amiel served as the first female editor of the Toronto Sun from 1983 until 1985.
9.
Barbara Amiel has been married four times, with three marriages ending in divorce.
10.
Barbara Amiel entered a brief marriage to Gary Smith in 1964.
11.
In 2001, Barbara Amiel became Lady Black after her husband gained a life peerage as Lord Black of Crossharbour.
12.
Barbara Amiel said he had described Israel as "that shitty little country".
13.
Barbara Amiel's journalism became known, according to Andy McSmith in 2007, for her "ferocious" defence of Israel and as an opponent of the BBC.
14.
Barbara Amiel was criticized in 2004 by William Dalrymple in the New Statesman for writing articles that portray Arabs and Islam in a derogatory manner.
15.
Michele Tribalat, a demographer at Institut national d'etudes demographiques said the figures Barbara Amiel suggested were "une sottise".
16.
Nick Cohen, in a January 2002 New Statesman article, accused Barbara Amiel of being one of the people who believe "objectively the anti-American is pro-Bin Laden".
17.
Barbara Amiel had responded to a speech the dramatist Harold Pinter had delivered on 10 September 2001 calling for opposition to American foreign policies.
18.
In 2002, Barbara Amiel gave an interview to Vogue magazine which led to an enquiry into Hollinger's accounts led by Gordon Paris.
19.
Between 1998 and 2003, Barbara Amiel served as a columnist at her husband's Chicago Sun-Times and earned $1.3 million for a limited number of articles.
20.
Barbara Amiel "could have discovered that her husband's income was insufficient to finance their ambitions, but she preferred not to investigate".
21.
Black filed a suit in Canada against Bower in February 2007, claiming that the biography described Barbara Amiel as "grasping, hectoring, slatternly, extravagant, shrill and a harridan".
22.
Barbara Amiel accompanied Black to his trial in a Chicago courtroom, which lasted for 15 weeks, ending with convictions for fraud and obstruction of justice on 13 July 2007.
23.
Barbara Amiel was reported to have lost her self control in court early in the trial, and to have spoken in anger to a handful of female journalists who gained her displeasure.
24.
Barbara Amiel received a full pardon from President Donald Trump in May 2019.