Katherine Kelley was born on April 4,1942 and is an American journalist and author of best-selling unauthorized biographies of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Reagan, the British Royal Family, the Bush family, and Oprah Winfrey.
14 Facts About Kitty Kelley
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Kitty Kelley has been described as a "professional sensationalist" and the "consummate gossip monger".
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Catherine Kitty Kelley was raised in Spokane, Washington, the eldest of seven children of Adele and William Vincent Kitty Kelley, a lawyer who served as president of the city's bar association.
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Kitty Kelley worked at the 1964 New York World's Fair and went on to become a receptionist-press secretary for Senator Eugene McCarthy.
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Kitty Kelley went on to have a full-time career as a freelance writer.
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Kitty Kelley's articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The Washington Post, People, Ladies Home Journal, McCall's, Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Tribune.
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Kitty Kelley later quit his job to help Kelley with her early books, even looking in the garbage of Elizabeth Taylor and her then husband, US Senator John Warner.
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Kitty Kelley discussed Sinatra's marriages, affairs and links to the Mob.
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In 1990, Kelley wrote a piece for People magazine based on interviews she had conducted with Judith Campbell Exner, a former girlfriend of Frank Sinatra's who claimed to have had an affair with John F Kennedy.
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Kitty Kelley was paid $3.5 million to write the book.
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Kitty Kelley stated that the Windsors obscured their German ancestry and described scandals surrounding the members of the royal family.
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Barbara Walters said books like Kitty Kelley's are more focused on salacious rather than factual content.
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Kitty Kelley maintains, "I am an unabashed admirer of transparency and believe in the freedom guaranteed by the First Amendment" and, to that end, her writing is about "moving an icon out of the moonlight and into the sunlight".
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Kitty Kelley is on the board of Washington Independent Review of Books, and Reading is Fundamental.