Mark Ebner
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| Mark Ebner | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1959 Providence, RI |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Blogger, investigative journalist |
| Website | www |
Mark Charles Ebner (born 1959) is an American blogger and investigative[citation needed] journalist and the host of TruTV's Rich and Reckless.[citation needed] Ebner writes primarily about issues in the Los Angeles area, including pit bull fighting in South Central, Scientology, and celebrity scandal.[1][2] He has covered celebrity culture for Spy, Rolling Stone, Details, and Salon.com.[3] He has been featured as a guest or contributor on VH1, The Daily Show, South Park, CourtTV, and Fox News.
Career
Ebner graduated from Bard College in 1982, where he edited the Bard Times.[4]
In 2002 he co-authored Ain't It Cool?: Hollywood's Redheaded Stepchild Speaks Out with Harry Knowles. With Andrew Breitbart, he wrote the New York Times and Los Angeles Times 2005 best-seller Hollywood, Interrupted.[3] In early 2006, Ebner joined Tucker Max's Rudius Media as a blogger and celebrity journalist.
Ebner was a consultant on South Park's controversial Trapped in the Closet episode that was eventually nominated for an Emmy Award.[5][6]
In mid-2007, Ebner broke the news that actor and activist Sean Penn was frequenting a Hawaiian resort in the center of a controversial debate between natives and visitors over an ancestral burial ground.[7][8]
Ebner also broke an investigative story in 2007 implicating Bill Cosby on allegations of sexual assaults and rapes, a story that People Magazine originally planned to publish, but buried.[9][10]
Shortly after the on-campus shooting at Virginia Tech, Ebner reported that Scientology leaders had dispatched "grief counselors" to the scene. According to Ebner and a supposedly sourced document, their intent was to investigate the psychiatric history of killer Seung-Hui Cho.[11][12] This story was later picked up by Boing Boing and made the front page of Digg.com.[13][14]
As of Summer 2008, Ebner was hosting Rich and Reckless, an original true crime series produced by and broadcast on TruTV.[15]
Bibliography
- Ebner, Mark and Andrew Breitbart (2005) Hollywood, Interrupted: Insanity Chic in Babylon – The Case Against Celebrity. John Wiley & Sons Inc. ISBN 0-471-70624-8
- Knowles, Harry, Mark Ebner and Quentin Tarantino (2002). Ain't It Cool?: Hollywood's Redheaded Stepchild Speaks Out. Warner ISBN 0-446-52597-9
- Six Degrees of Paris Hilton: Inside the Sex Tapes, Scandals, and Shakedowns of the New Hollywood, Simon Spotlight Entertainment, Feb. 3, 2009, ISBN 978-1-4169-5934-2
See also
References
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- ↑ Pit Bullies 14 January 2003.
- ↑ Ebner Undercover: Scientology, Spy Magazine, 1996 Hollywood Interrupted. 23 March 2006.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Devers, Deirdre Hollywood Interrupted: Fear and Loathing in LA Pop Matters. February 2004.
- ↑ Bard Times archive, vol. 1 no. 1, 19 November 1981.
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