Who is George Stephanopoulos?
American Anchor, Host, and former Democratic advisor, George Stephanopoulos, work with ABC News where he serves the station as a co-anchor and host. He began working with the station 1997 .
George Stephanopoulos Date of Birth / Age
Stephanopoulos, born on June 7, 1962, is 62 years as of 2023.
George Stephanopoulos Height
His height is 5 feet and 7 inches.
George Stephanopoulos Parents and Siblings
The birthplace of Stephanopoulos is Fall River, Massachusetts. Robert George Stephanopoulos is his father and Nickolitsa Gloria is his mother who are of Greek descent. Robert is a retired Greek Orthodox priest. His mother served as the National News Service’s director for the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America for a number of years.
George Stephanopoulos Spouse/ Wife
Stephanopoulos exchanged vows with Ali Wentworth in 2001. The wedding happened at the Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity on the Upper East Side of New York. She is famous and well-known for being an actress, comedian, and author. In Living Color, a Fox sketch comedy series was Ali Wentworth’s acting debut. Ali Wentworth and Shondaland audio teamed up to launch the Go Ask Ali podcast in 2020.
George Stephanopoulos Kids / Children
Stephanopoulos and his wife Ali have two daughters together. They have not disclosed any information regarding them. However, we will bring you an update on this information once more details concerning this become available.
George Stephanopoulos Education
Stephanopoulos went to Orange High School on Pepper Pike. Stephanopoulos studied at Columbia University in New York and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science degree with honors. At Columbia University, he was the salutatorian in his class, was elected Phi Beta Kappa in his freshman year, and received the Harry S. Truman Fellowship. He worked as a sports reporter for college radio station 89.9 WKCR-FM. He resided in East Campus and Carman Hall while a student.
George then went on and joined Balliol College, University of Oxford, England, as a Rhodes Scholar. He graduated with a Master of Divinity and later received an honorary doctorate from St. John’s University in New York.
George Stephanopoulos Career
Political Career
Following graduation, Stephanopoulos started his political career as Ed Feighan, a Democratic congressman from Ohio, and ultimately rose to the position of chief of staff. He later on joined the team of former House Majority Leader Dick Gephardt after. Stephanopoulos served as Clinton’s deputy campaign manager in 1992, and after Clinton was elected president in 1993, he was a major advisor to the new president until 1996.
In 1999, Gennifer Flowers filed a slander lawsuit against Stephanopoulos and James Carville. Regarding her claims that she had an affair with Bill Clinton, Stephanopoulos said. In order to make Flowers’ account sound convincing, he accused her of editing the recording of her conversation with Clinton. Stephanopoulos additionally called her piece “tabloid trash,” “garbage,” and “crap.” Since his remarks did not constitute defamation, the lawsuit was dismissed.
In his book, Stephanopoulos details his relationship with Clinton, which spanned two presidential campaigns and four years in the White House from the day he first met him in September 1991 to the day he left the White House in December 1996. Clinton is characterized by Stephanopoulos as a “complicated man responding to the pressures and pleasures of public life in ways I found both awesome and appalling” in the book.
Journalism
When Stephanopoulos joined ABC as a political analyst for This Week in 1997, he started his career in television. He released All Too Human: A Political Education in 1999, which details Clinton’s 1992 and 1996 presidential campaigns as well as his first time in office. Stephanopoulos later received a promotion to a correspondent for a number of ABC news shows, including World News Tonight and Good Morning America.
In 2002 he became the host of This Week, renamed This Week with George Stephanopoulos, and after three years, ABC named him its Washington DC correspondent, up until 2009. He then started co-hosting at Good Morning America, left the position briefly then returned to the post in early 2012. On the ABC News website, Stephanopoulos started a blog called George’s Bottom Line during the 2008 presidential election campaign. Stephanopoulos blogged about political news and opinion from Washington.
In December 2009, Stephanopoulos received an invitation from David Westin, president of ABC News, to host Good Morning America after Diane Sawyer was designated the network’s new World News anchor. On December 14, 2009, Stephanopoulos started co-anchoring GMA after accepting the new job. Stephanopoulos announced that this will be his final appearance as This Week’s permanent presenter on January 10, 2010.
Stephanopoulos served as ABC News chief anchor from 2014 to 2020 after Diane Sawyer left World News at the end of August 2014. He continued to host GMA and This Week. Each year, Stephanopoulos hosts four hour-long specials in prime time for the ABC network and is in charge of a brand-new documentary crew for Disney’s internet networks.
ABC News
George works with ABC News where he serves alongside his fellow anchors, reporters, and meteorologists such as;
- Robin Roberts
- Eva Pilgrim
- Whit Johnson
- Kevin Newman
- Diane Sawyer
- Michael Strahan
- Dan Harris
- Janai Norman
- Rob Marciano
- Heather Cabot
- Ginger Zee
- Amy Robach
- Lara Spencer
How Much Does George Stephanopoulos Earn?
ABC News pays Stephanopoulos a fixed salary as well as bonuses. Stephanopoulos’ annual salary under his current contract with ABC News is $25 million. In addition to this fixed salary, Stephanopoulos also gets a $4 million bonus based on the popularity of his shows on television.
How Much is George Stephanopoulos Worth?
As an Anchor, Host, and former Democratic advisor, Stephanopoulos has been able to accumulate a net worth of $ 108 million.
Controversies
Real estate loan controversy
According to columnist Jack Anderson, in 1994, Stephanopoulos agreed to a $835,000 commercial real estate deal. This included a two-story apartment with an eyewear store. The loan came from a bank run by Hugh McColl. President Clinton once referred to as “the most enlightened banker in America,” at a below-market interest rate. According to a NationsBank commercial loan officer, this loan “did not fit our product matrix”. This is because banks normally only issue such loans on a short-term adjustable rate basis to customers with substantial financial resources.
The real estate agent for Stephanopoulos stated that “nobody making $125,000 could qualify for the property without the commercial property (lease).” If his name were George Smith and he didn’t work for the White House, according to a former top bank regulator who spoke to Anderson. Stephanopoulos’ realtor claims that without the rent from the commercial property, he would not have been eligible for the loan. One NationsBank source claims that because residential loans for mixed-use properties are so uncommon, neither the “NationsBank Mortgage Corporation’s Program Summary” nor its “Credit Policy Manual” address this topic.
Clinton Foundation Charity donations.
Stephanopoulos gave the Clinton Foundation a total of $75,000 in donations of $25,000 each in 2012, 2013 and 2014. However, neither ABC News, his employer, nor his audience was informed of the gifts. Even on April 26, 2015, when interviewing Peter Schweizer, the author of the book Clinton Cash, which contends that contributions to the Foundation influenced some of Hillary Clinton’s decisions as Secretary of State. Stephanopoulos omitted to mention the donations. After the funds were made public by Politico on May 14, 2015, Stephanopoulos apologized and acknowledged he should have told ABC News and its viewers about the donations. The Washington Free Beacon, which had questioned ABC News about the situation, broke the story. The Clinton Foundation, which Stephanopoulos mentioned, had disclosed the donations as “an honest mistake”.
Jeffrey Epstein Association.
In 2010, Stephanopoulos joined Chelsea Handler, Woody Allen, Katie Couric, Prince Andrew, Charlie Rose, and Eva Andersson-Dubin at a dinner party hosted by convicted sex offender socialite Jeffrey Epstein. In response to outrage directed at people who attended the party after Epstein’s arrest in July 2019, Stephanopoulos denied being friends with Epstein and said that the party was their sole interaction. The New York Times quoted Stephanopoulos as saying: “That dinner was the first and last time I’ve seen him; I should have done more research. Going was a mistake.