62 Facts About Jeanine Pirro

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Jeanine Ferris Pirro was born on June 2,1951 and is an American television host, author, and a former New York State judge, prosecutor, and politician.

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Jeanine Pirro was a frequent contributor to NBC News, including regular appearances on The Today Show.

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Jeanine Pirro was the first female judge elected in Westchester County, New York.

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Jeanine Pirro briefly sought the Republican nomination for United States Senate to run against Hillary Clinton in 2006, but dropped out to accept the nomination for New York Attorney General; she lost the general election to Democrat Andrew Cuomo.

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Jeanine Pirro was named as a defendant in a February 2021 defamation lawsuit by Smartmatic, in relation to false claims of election fraud in the 2020 United States presidential election, though the claims against her were dismissed by a judge in March 2022.

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Jeanine Pirro Ferris was born and raised in Elmira, New York, the daughter of Lebanese-American parents.

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Jeanine Pirro's father was a mobile-home salesman, and her mother was a department-store model who spent much of her childhood in Beirut.

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Jeanine Pirro knew she wanted to be an attorney from the age of six.

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Jeanine Pirro graduated from Notre Dame High School in Elmira in three years, interning in the Chemung County District Attorney's office during her time in high school.

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Jeanine Pirro then graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University at Buffalo.

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Jeanine Pirro received her JD degree at Albany Law School of Union University in 1975, where she was an editor of the law review.

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In 1977, Jeanine Pirro approached Vergari and requested that he apply for a federal grant for local district attorney's offices to establish bureaus that specialized in domestic violence.

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Jeanine Pirro hoped that Vergari would take advantage of potential funding, as well as a 1977 change in New York law that moved many domestic violence cases from family court to criminal court.

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In 1978, he appointed Jeanine Pirro to be the first chief of the new Domestic Violence and Child Abuse Bureau.

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On multiple occasions, Chief District Attorney Vergari spoke to Jeanine Pirro concerning her violation of office policy.

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Jeanine Pirro was a 36-year-old immigrant from El Salvador who had a history of being hospitalized for mental issues.

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Jeanine Pirro left the District Attorney's office after her November 1990 election as a judge of the Westchester County Court.

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When she was sworn in on January 1,1991, Jeanine Pirro became Westchester County's first female judge.

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In November 1993, Jeanine Pirro was elected Westchester County District Attorney; she was the first woman to hold that position.

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On May 23,2005, Jeanine Pirro announced that she would not seek re-election to a fourth term as Westchester County District Attorney.

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Jeanine Pirro, already known as a passionate prosecutor of domestic violence cases, was a frequent presence in the media during the period between the murder and when Scott Douglas's body washed ashore in Riverdale in early March 1994.

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The largest expenses were a new kitchenette and a media room, costing $20,000, to assist Jeanine Pirro's growing profile; additional expenditures were made to remodel her personal office with mahogany.

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Jeanine Pirro was the first female president of the New York State District Attorneys Association.

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Many Republicans worried that if Jeanine Pirro were nominated, their ticket would be too geographically dominated by downstate and the suburbs, with O'Rourke, like Jeanine Pirro, being from Westchester, and the presumptive nominees for attorney general, Peter King and United States Senate, Alfonse D'Amato both hailing from Nassau County.

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Jeanine Pirro was replaced just six hours after her announcement by Michael Kavanagh, the District Attorney of Ulster County.

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On December 21,2005, Jeanine Pirro dropped out of the Senate race after continuing pressure from party chiefs.

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On May 31,2006, Jeanine Pirro was unopposed for the nomination and became the Republican Party's official candidate for Attorney General of New York by acclamation at the state GOP convention.

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Jeanine Pirro received the nominations of the New York Conservative and Independence Parties.

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Jeanine Pirro is the author of six books, two of which are crime novels.

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Jeanine Pirro's book Liars, Leakers, and Liberals: The Case Against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy is a look inside the Presidency of Donald Trump, as well as the politics surrounding the anti-Trump movement.

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Jeanine Pirro has been a regular contributor to the syndicated morning talk show The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet.

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Jeanine Pirro has been a guest analyst on Today, Fox NY Good Day New York.

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Jeanine Pirro is a Fox News legal analyst appearing on various shows, and has guest-hosted shows such as Larry King Live, The Joy Behar Show, and Geraldo at Large.

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In 2003, Jeanine Pirro released the nonfiction book To Punish and Protect, describing life inside the criminal justice system.

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In 2012, with the assistance of author Pete Earley, Jeanine Pirro wrote the novel Sly Fox based on her own experiences as a 25-year-old assistant district attorney in Westchester.

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Jeanine Pirro appears in the HBO six-part serial The Jinx, recounting her perspective on the 1983 disappearance of Kathie Durst, a high-profile case for which she was the investigating attorney.

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Jeanine Pirro was the host of the American reality prime time court show You the Jury, canceled after two episodes.

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Judge Jeanine Pirro was cleared for a second season beginning in fall 2009.

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In 2014, Jeanine Pirro claimed ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was "released by Obama in 2009".

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Jeanine Pirro did not appear on air for the first 15 minutes citing "technical difficulties", with Jackie Ibanez covering for her, and when Pirro finally appeared, she was in a disheveled state, slurring her speech, causing widespread speculation that she was inebriated.

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On January 12,2022, it was announced that Jeanine Pirro would be a permanent co-host on The Five starting January 24, and ending Justice.

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Jeanine Pirro supported Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential race, while noting that she was "infuriated" by some of his behaviors.

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Jeanine Pirro's comments were part of a broader push by Trump's allies in the media to delegitimize the Mueller probe and other investigations into Trump and his administration.

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In February 2018, after two senior Trump administration officials resigned due to domestic abuse allegations, Jeanine Pirro suggested that Barack Obama's policies were to blame for the two domestic abuse scandals.

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In May 2018, Jeanine Pirro said that Trump had "fulfilled" a "biblical prophecy" by moving the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.

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In June 2018, Jeanine Pirro said Trump's pardon of conservative activist Dinesh D'Souza, who was convicted of "illegal campaign contributions" to a college friend, to whom he received support, was "fantastic news", as she believes D'Souza was singled out for prosecution for his politics by the FBI for having produced two political documentary movies: Hillary's America and Obama's America.

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Later that month, Politico reported that Jeanine Pirro had, since late 2016, repeatedly told the Trump administration about her interest in becoming the Attorney General.

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On January 12,2019, while on Fox, Jeanine Pirro took a call on-air from Trump in which he spoke for 20 minutes, claiming his former attorney Michael Cohen fabricated stories to reduce the length of his expected sentence.

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In February 2020, Jeanine Pirro predicted that the impeachment of Donald Trump would be so unpopular that Democrats would lose their majority in the US House of Representatives in the 2020 elections ; Politico named Jeanine Pirro's prediction one of "the most audacious, confident and spectacularly incorrect prognostications about the year".

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Jeanine Pirro's positions were described as politically moderate during her Senate run.

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Jeanine Pirro supported a woman's right to an abortion, including US taxpayer funding of abortion through Medicaid in 2005, though she has been opposed to late-term abortions.

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Jeanine Pirro was outspoken in her support for anti-discrimination protections for LGBT people during her 2006 campaign for State Attorney General.

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Jeanine Pirro received an endorsement from the Log Cabin Republicans.

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Jeanine Pirro did not support same-sex marriage; however, Pirro opposed attempts to amend the Constitution in order to ban same-sex marriage, claiming: "Make no mistake, if it does become the law of this state, I will fight to defend it".

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In November 2021, Jeanine Pirro attended the Log Cabin Republicans' "Spirit of Lincoln Award" event.

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In 2014, Jeanine Pirro called for the impeachment of Barack Obama over the 2012 Benghazi attack.

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On February 23,1999, Jeanine Pirro's husband was indicted by the office of United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York on one count of conspiracy, four counts of tax evasion, and 28 counts of filing a false tax return for hiding over $1 million in personal income as business expenses between 1988 and 1997.

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Jeanine Pirro served 17 months in prison, being released early for good behavior and participating in an alcoholism treatment program.

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In November 2017, Jeanine Pirro was charged with speeding for driving 119 miles per hour in upstate New York.

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In July 2019, Jeanine Pirro was named to the board of directors of the cannabis company HeavenlyRx, which manufactures CBD products.

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Jeanine Pirro revealed in her 2018 book, Liars, Leakers, and Liberals: The Case Against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy, that she was diagnosed with cancer in 2012.

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On February 4,2021, Jeanine Pirro was named in the complaint "Smartmatic Files $2.7 Billion Defamation Lawsuit Against Fox Corporation" The complaint states that "Fox News' disinformation campaign had a direct and harmful impact on Smartmatic's ability to conduct business in the United States and around the world".