1. Mariane van Neyenhoff Pearl was born on 23 July 1967 and is a French freelance journalist and a former reporter and columnist for Glamour magazine.
10 Facts About Mariane Pearl
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Mariane Pearl is the widow of Daniel Pearl, an American journalist who was the South Asia Bureau Chief for The Wall Street Journal, who was kidnapped and murdered by terrorists in Pakistan in early 2002, during the early months of the United States' War on Terror.
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Mariane Pearl van Neyenhoff was born in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, France, to a Cuban mother of Afro-Cuban and Chinese Cuban descent and a Dutch Jewish father.
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Mariane Pearl's paternal grandfather was a diamond merchant in the Netherlands.
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Mariane Pearl explored aspects of globalization as seen through fashion and its business elements.
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Mariane Pearl traveled with him to Karachi, Pakistan, to cover aspects of the United States' War on Terrorism.
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Mariane Pearl is a practising Nichiren Buddhist and a member of Soka Gakkai International.
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Mariane Pearl's book was adapted for the 2007 film of the same name.
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In July 2007, following the trials in Pakistan and revelations by Al-Qaeda terrorists held by the United States of participation in Daniel Pearl's abduction and murder, Mariane Pearl filed suit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York against a dozen named terrorists and a bank that may have financed them; she was seeking damages for their alleged roles in the abduction, torture, and murder of her husband.
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Mariane Pearl was recognized as one of the BBC's 100 women of 2013.