29 Facts About Jemima Goldsmith

Jemima Goldsmith was formerly a journalist and associate editor of The New Statesman, a British political and cultural magazine, and served as the European editor-at-large for the American magazine Vanity Fair.

Jemima Goldsmith's parents were married to different partners at the time of her birth, but they married each other in 1978 in order to legitimize their children.

Jemima Goldsmith has two younger brothers, Zac Goldsmith and Ben Goldsmith, and five paternal and three maternal half-siblings, including Robin Birley and India Jane Birley.

Jemima Goldsmith grew up at Ormeley Lodge and attended the Old Vicarage preparatory school, then Francis Holland Girls School.

In 1993, Jemima Goldsmith enrolled at the University of Bristol and studied English, but she dropped out when she married Imran Khan in 1995.

Jemima Goldsmith eventually completed her bachelor's degree in March 2002 with upper second-class honours.

Jemima Goldsmith later studied at the School of Oriental and African Studies and was awarded a master of arts degree in Middle Eastern Studies, focusing on Modern Trends in Islam, from the University of London in 2003.

In 2015, Jemima Goldsmith Khan founded Instinct Productions, a London-based content company specializing in television, documentaries and film with former Princess Productions managing director, Henrietta Conrad.

Jemima Goldsmith was the executive producer of Emmy-nominated The Case Against Adnan Syed, a TV documentary series for Sky Atlantic and HBO about the Adnan Syed case, which inspired the popular 'Serial' podcast which Academy Award nominee Amy Berg directed.

Jemima Goldsmith was the co-executive producer for the documentary films Unmanned: America's Drone Wars and Making A Killing: Guns, Greed and the NRA, both directed by Robert Greenwald.

Jemima Goldsmith co-produced the play Drones, Baby, Drones at the Arcola Theatre, directed by Nicolas Kent and Mehmet Ergen, that premiered in November 2016.

Jemima Goldsmith was a contributor to the fifth season of the historical drama series The Crown, which would depict the final years of Diana, Princess of Wales; however, she asked for her contributions to be removed as she felt the "storyline would not necessarily be told as respectfully or compassionately" as she had hoped.

Jemima Goldsmith was a Sunday Telegraph columnist from 21 October 2007 to 27 January 2008.

Jemima Goldsmith was a feature writer and a contributing editor for British Vogue from 2008 to 2011.

Jemima Goldsmith interviewed the deputy prime minister Nick Clegg and included contributions from Russell Brand, Tim Robbins, Simon Pegg, Oliver Stone, Tony Benn, and Julian Assange, with cover art by Anish Kapoor and Damien Hirst.

In 1998, Jemima Goldsmith launched an eponymous fashion label that employed poor Pakistani women to embroider western clothes with eastern handiwork to be sold in London and New York.

Jemima Goldsmith ran the organisation until December 2001, when she shut down the business due to the economic situation following the September 11 attacks, and so she could focus on fundraising and on supporting her husband in Pakistani politics.

Jemima Goldsmith was featured on Vanity Fair's Annual International Best-Dressed List in 2004,2005 and 2007, the last of which she was inducted into their Best Dressed Hall of Fame.

Jemima Goldsmith became an Ambassador for UNICEF UK in 2001, and made field trips to Kenya, Romania, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Pakistan, the last of which she later helped victims of the 2005 Kashmir earthquake by raising emergency funds.

Jemima Goldsmith has promoted UNICEF's Breastfeeding Manifesto, Growing Up Alone and End Child Exploitation campaigns in the UK.

Jemima Goldsmith has campaigned against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as for freedom of information; she attended Assange's extradition hearings and gave a speech at the Stop the War Coalition's rally in defence of Wikileaks alongside Tony Benn and Tariq Ali.

On 3 November 2018, Jemima Goldsmith criticised the fact that the Government of Pakistan was considering putting the Christian woman, Asia Bibi, on the exit control list despite the fact that she was acquitted by the Supreme Court, in order to compromise with the Islamist political party Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan.

In 1995, Jemima Goldsmith married Imran Khan, a retired cricketer, with whom she had two sons.

Jemima Goldsmith was a close friend of Diana, Princess of Wales, who visited her in Lahore in 1996.

Jemima Goldsmith's relationship was scrutinised extensively by the tabloids, but a 2005 survey of London visitors favoured them as "the celebrity couple people would most like to show them round London".

Jemima Goldsmith wrote in a 2008 article for The Times that she "over-conformed in [her] eagerness to be accepted" into the "new and radically different culture" of Pakistan.

Jemima Goldsmith stated that prior to her conversion to Islam she was technically Anglican but "was made familiar with Jewish traditions", since her paternal grandfather Frank Jemima Goldsmith was German Jewish.

Jemima Goldsmith supported her husband as he became more involved in his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party.

On 22 June 2004, it was announced that the couple had divorced ending the nine-year marriage because it was "difficult for Jemima Goldsmith to adapt to the political life of Imran Khan in Pakistan".