1. Rita Cosby was born on November 18,1964 and is an American television news anchor for Fox, MSNBC and NewsMax, as well as a best selling author.
20 Facts About Rita Cosby
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Rita Cosby is a host on the two-hour news show Saturday Report on Newsmax and a special correspondent for the CBS syndicated program Inside Edition, specializing in interviewing newsmakers and political figures.
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The daughter of a Danish mother and a Polish father Richard Rita Cosby who came to the United States after World War II, Rita Cosby was born in Brooklyn, New York.
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Rita Cosby grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut, where she attended Greenwich High School and freelanced for the local paper.
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Rita Cosby earned her bachelor's degrees from the University of South Carolina.
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Rita Cosby has interviewed over twenty world leaders, conducting historic back-to-back interviews with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
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Rita Cosby was the first reporter to see prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay.
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Rita Cosby interviewed Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic who called her from his prison cell at the Hague.
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Rita Cosby made national headlines for her interviews with boxer Mike Tyson, singer Michael Jackson and convicted serial killer David Berkowitz, "The Son of Sam," who wrote to her during the Washington, DC sniper shootings in October 2002.
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Rita Cosby served as a lead reporter during the 1996 and 2000 Presidential campaigns.
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Rita Cosby traveled for the network, originating live for several weeks from New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region to report on Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, as well as from the war zone in Afghanistan and along the US-Mexico border.
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On February 8,2007, Rita Cosby broke the news on the death of Anna Nicole Smith.
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Rita Cosby left the network in 2007 to pursue other media offers and projects.
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Additionally, Rita Cosby has co-chaired various events internationally, including the Intersec Security Conference in Dubai in 2009.
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Since 2022, Rita Cosby has hosted the weekly two-hour news show Saturday Report on Newsmax, replacing previous host Carl Higbie.
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On September 4,2007, Rita Cosby released a book about Anna Nicole Smith, Blonde Ambition: The Untold Story Behind Anna Nicole Smith's Death.
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In October 2007, Howard K Stern, Smith's former attorney and agent filed a $60 million libel and defamation lawsuit against Cosby and her publisher for her claims that Stern and father of Smith's daughter were involved in homosexual relationship and that there was a videotape of their alleged relationship.
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In July 2009, in a court hearing whether to dismiss the lawsuit Rita Cosby admitted there was no videotape and could not prove allegations that Stern was involved in criminal activities regarding Smith's death.
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New York Federal court judge Denny Chin ruled that Rita Cosby's actions were extremely troubling, and suggest she was attempting to obstruct justice by tempering with witnesses.
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In 2010, Rita Cosby released a memoir, Quiet Hero: Secrets From My Father's Past.