Samantha Judith Ronson was born on 7 August 1977 and is an English DJ, singer, and songwriter.
25 Facts About Samantha Ronson
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Later, her mother married Jones, who contributed to Samantha Ronson's childhood being surrounded by music.
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Samantha Ronson is the niece of property tycoon Gerald Samantha Ronson and is related to British Conservative politicians Sir Malcolm Rifkind and Leon Brittan, as well as to Odeon Cinemas founder Oscar Deutsch.
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Samantha Ronson's older brother, Mark, is a music producer and musician and her fraternal twin sister, Charlotte, is a fashion designer.
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Samantha Ronson has five younger half-siblings: Kenneth and Annabelle and Henrietta, David, and Joshua.
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Samantha Ronson has two stepbrothers, Roman and Chris Jones, from Mick Jones' previous marriage.
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Samantha Ronson was educated at the Chapin School on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
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Samantha Ronson then studied creative writing and philosophy at New York University.
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Samantha Ronson's parents are of Ashkenazi Jewish descent, with ancestors from Austria, Russia, and Lithuania, and Ronson was brought up in Conservative Judaism.
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Samantha Ronson has stated that she fell into DJing by chance.
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Samantha Ronson has spun live for MTV's New Year's Eve show, the Super Bowl, Pan American Games, Sundance Film Festival, amfAR, Cannes Film Festival, American Music Awards, and MTV Video Music Awards.
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Samantha Ronson has played private events for celebrities including Stevie Wonder, Jimmy Kimmel, Nicole Richie, Lionel Richie, Jessica Simpson, Ellen DeGeneres, Natalie Portman, Lindsay Lohan, and Jay-Z.
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Samantha Ronson was the official DJ for Hennessy's Hennessy Black in 2011.
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In 2009,2010, and 2014, Samantha Ronson designed her own set of sneakers for the company Supra.
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Samantha Ronson appeared in a 2011 campaign for the cult fashion label Boy London in collaboration with The Cobrasnake.
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Samantha Ronson was a co-owner of the New York City nightclub The Plumm, along with actor Chris Noth, film producer Noel Ashman, and others.
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Samantha Ronson became the first rock act signed to Roc-A-Fella Records.
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In November 2011, Samantha Ronson released the album Chasing the Reds on her own label, Broken Toy Records.
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My brother [producer and musician Mark Samantha Ronson] made his records because he likes making songs.
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The album was produced by former Goudie guitarist Jimmy Messer, with Samantha Ronson herself sharing co-production credits.
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Police found a "small amount" of cocaine in her car, and blogger Perez Hilton posted on his blog that the drugs belonged to Samantha Ronson, using another celebrity gossip blog as a source for the story.
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Samantha Ronson hired Martin Garbus to start a defamation suit against Hilton and the original source for the story, Celebrity Babylon.
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Garbus thought that it would be impossible to produce evidence that Hilton had acted with malice and reached an agreement with Hilton that would have kept Samantha Ronson from paying his legal fees.
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Garbus withdrew from the case and neither he nor Samantha Ronson appeared at Hilton's hearing, where the judge ruled in Hilton's favour dismissing the case and ordering Samantha Ronson to pay Hilton's $85,000 legal fees.
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Samantha Ronson was arrested for two misdemeanors for driving under the influence.