Carole Radziwill
American journalist (born 1963)
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Carole Ann Radziwiłł (Polish pronunciation: [raˈd͡ʑiviww]; née DiFalco; born August 20, 1963)[1][2] is an American journalist, writer, and television personality. Radziwill, best known for appearing on the Bravo reality series The Real Housewives of New York City from 2012 to 2018, first worked as a journalist and producer for ABC News from 1986 to 2002. Her reporting earned her three Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, and a GLAAD Media Award.[3]
August 20, 1963
- Journalist
- writer
- television personality
Carole Radziwiłł | |
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Radziwiłł in 2007 | |
| Born | Carole Ann DiFalco August 20, 1963 Suffern, New York, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1986–present |
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| Family | Radziwiłł family |
She is the widow of Prince Anthony Radziwiłł, whom she was married to from 1994 up until his death in 1999. In 2005, Radziwiłł published her memoir called What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship and Love which became a New York Times Best Seller.[4]
Early life and education
Carole Ann DiFalco was born in Suffern, New York on August 20, 1963, the daughter of Anthony (1939-2026) and Helen DiFalco.[5] She has three brothers and two sisters. She is of Italian descent.[6] She earned a B.A. in English at Hunter College and an M.B.A. at New York University.[2]
Career
Radziwill began her career in journalism in 1986, first interning at ABC News in postproduction and reporting for ABC World News Tonight.[7] Soon after, she began producing stories for 20/20, Primetime Live, and DayOne.[7] She later joined Peter Jennings' documentary unit, Peter Jennings Reporting, mostly covering abortion and gun control.[8] She covered foreign policy on location in Haiti, Cambodia, and India; participating in fieldwork along the Thai-Cambodian border involving filming in refugee camps and interactions with Khmer Rouge Soldiers.[9] In 1991, Radziwill was stationed in Israel to report on the Persian Gulf War and later traveled with Israeli military personnel to film the aftermath of Saddam Hussein's SCUD missile attacks.[10]
For six weeks in 2001, Radziwill, along with the 101st Airborne Division in the U.S. military base in Kandahar, Afghanistan, embedded during the early stages of the U.S. invasion following the September 11 attacks whilst creating the ABC documentary, Profiles from the Front Line.[11] In 2002, Radziwill departed from ABC to write her book.[12]
In September 2005, Radziwill published her first memoir, What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love, published by Charles Scribner's Sons.[13] The memoir, which chronicled the marriage, death, and aftermath of her late husband Anthony Radziwill, spent 12 weeks on The New York Times Best Sellers list and was praised by Oprah Winfrey and Jeannette Walls.[14][15][16] In 2006, she became a contributor for Glamour Magazine with a monthly column entitled "Lunch Dates", in which she would have lunch with celebrities and interview them; her interviewees included the disgraced Rudolph Giuliani, Prince Andrew, and Alec Baldwin.[17]
In 2011, Radziwiłł was approached to join the fifth season of the Bravo network reality series, The Real Housewives of New York City.[18] In February 2014, Radziwiłł published her first novel, A Widow's Guide to Sex and Dating, which was published by Henry Holt and Company. The novel follows 34-year-old writer Claire Byrne as she navigates the death of her older husband.[19] Radziwiłł departed from Real Housewives of New York City after the show's tenth season in July 2018.[20] She has since written articles for Cosmopolitan, Departures, and Porter magazine; including collaborative profiles on Olivia Wilde, Mariah Carey, and Kim Kardashian.[21]
In March 2026, it was announced that Radziwiłł would return to The Real Housewives of New York City for the upcoming sixteenth season. [22]
Personal life
Radziwiłł met television executive and son of Polish nobleman Stanisław Albrecht Radziwiłł and socialite Caroline Lee Bouvier, Anthony Radziwill, while they were both working as producers at ABC.[23] They married on August 27, 1994, at Most Holy Trinity Church in East Hampton, New York.[24] Prior to the wedding, he had been diagnosed with sarcoma, a rare cancer. He died of cancer on August 10, 1999, at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, aged 40. They had no children.[25]
Radziwill dated Aerosmith producer Russ Irwin and appeared in the video for his 2012 song "Manhattan." Irwin appeared occasionally on The Real Housewives of New York City beginning in season 5.[26][27]
In 2014, Radziwill started dating chef Adam Kenworthy. The pair dated on and off before announcing their split in 2017.[28]
Following the arrest of socialite Ghislaine Maxwell for sex trafficking, images of Radziwiłł photographed with Maxwell resurfaced online, as well as emails between her and Maxwell dating back to 2005.[29][30][31] Radziwiłł appears in the contact book of financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, despite her claim of not knowing him.[32] Radziwiłł said she was "friendly" with Maxwell in the early 2000s, but has not spoken with her in nearly two decades, having last seen her at the screening for the 2009 film Amelia.[33]
Awards and accolades
Throughout her career, Radziwill has won three Emmy Awards for her journalism, including her work on peace advocate Bobby Muller's campaign against landmines in Cambodia.[11][10] In 1990, she received the Peabody Award for her work on Peter Jennings Reporting: Guns.[34] She is also a recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Humanitarian Award.[7] In 2000, Radziwill received the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding TV Journalism for her profile on Billy Bean.[35]
Published works
- Radziwill, Carole (September 26, 2005) What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love. Charles Scribner's Sons. (ISBN 978-0743276948)
- Radziwill, Carole (February 11, 2014) The Widow's Guide to Sex and Dating: A Novel. Henry Holt and Company. (ISBN 978-0805098846)