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Who is Kitty Kelley?
Kitty Kelley is a journalist and author. Kitty Kelley is the unauthorized biographer of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Elizabeth Taylor, Nancy Reagan, Frank Sinatra, the British Royal Family, the Bush family, and Oprah Winfrey.
Early Life and Childhood
Kitty Kelley was born in Spokane, Washington, USA on April 4, 1942. Her age is 79 years.
Kitty’s father was a lawyer and the president of the city bar association. She is the eldest of seven children and has assisted in caring for her siblings because her mother is an alcoholic.
Mary Cary, Ellen, Margaret, Adele Monica, and Madeleine Sophie are her five sisters, and she has one brother, John.
The family vacationed in Europe and spent their summers in western Idaho at their two lakeside cottages.
Education Details
Kitty Kelley attended the private prep school Holy Names Academy after graduating from St. Augustine’s Elementary School.
Kitty later attended the University of Washington, where she earned a B.A. in English. She began her career as a receptionist-press secretary for Senator Eugene McCarthy at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.
Professional Career
Kelley published The Royals, a novel about the British royal family, in September 1997. She claimed that the Windsors hid their German ancestry and detailed scandals involving members of the royal family.
In September 2004, The Family: The True Story of the Bush Dynasty was published. Kitty announced the book’s plans soon after George W. Bush’s election in 2000, and she worked on it for four years.
Kitty’s book, His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra (1986), was declared “an act of bravery”. She talked about Sinatra’s marriages, affairs, and ties to the mob.
Sinatra initially filed a $2 million lawsuit to prevent it from being published, but later dropped it.
The book debuted at number one on the New York Times Best Seller List and went on to top lists in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and France.
According to Jonathan Yardley of the Washington Post, “His Way is such an improvement over her two previous books… that comparisons border on the pointless.”
According to the New York Times’s William Safire, “His Way…turns out to be the most eye-opening celebrity biography of our time.”
Crown announced in December 2006 that it would publish Kitty’s unauthorized biography of Oprah Winfrey. Oprah: A Biography was published on April 13, 2010.
The biography was dubbed “one of those King Kong vs. Godzilla events in celebrity culture” by The New Yorker. Oprah dismissed the book as a “so-called biography”.
Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography was published by Kitty in 1991. She received $3.5 million for writing the book.
Nancy Reagan was accused of having affairs with Frank Sinatra, frequently relying on astrology, lying about her age, and having a very poor relationship with her children, according to the book.
Former President Ronald Reagan issued a statement saying the book “has no basis in fact and serves no decent purpose. Alice Mayhew edited the Nancy Reagan book instead.
Net Worth and Salary
Kitty Kelley’s net worth is estimated to be $1 million.
Relationship Status
Kitty Kelley married Michael Edgley in 1976. Edgley was the National Council on Aging’s media director. Later, he quit his job to assist Kitty with her early books.
In 1989, the couple divorced. Kitty married allergist John Zucker in 1992, who died in 2011.
Body Measurements
She is a woman of average height, standing at 5 ft 4 in (Approx. 1.62 m).
Social Media
Her social media handles are unknown.
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Trivia
- Kitty is a journalist and author from the United States.
- She is the unauthorized biographer of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Elizabeth Taylor, Nancy Reagan, Frank Sinatra, the British Royal Family, the Bush family, and Oprah Winfrey.
- Kitty was born on April 4, 1942, and is therefore 79 years old.
- Her net worth is estimated to be $1 million.
- She stands at 5 ft 4 in (Approx. 1.62 m).
