George Stephanopoulos Biography
George Stephanopoulos is a television host, political commentator, and former Democratic advisor from the United States. Stephanopoulos is currently a co-anchor on Good Morning America with Robin Roberts and Michael Strahan, as well as the host of This Week, ABC’s Sunday morning current events news program. Other ABC anchors include Forrest Sawyer, Joan Lunden, Jim Avila, Joan Lunden, Cecily Tynan, Robin Roberts, Michael Strahan, Lara Spencer, Ginger Zee, David Muir, Amy Robach, Kendis Gibson, Diane Macedo, Janai Norman, Rob Nelson, Paula Faris, and Reena Ninan.
George Stephanopoulos Age
George is 61 years old as of 2022. He was born George Robert Stephanopoulos on 10 February 1961 in Fall River, Massachusetts, United States.
George Stephanopoulos Height
George stands at a height of feet – 5 feet 6 inches (1.65 m).
George Stephanopoulos Education
Stephanopoulos moved to Cleveland’s eastern suburbs, where he graduated from Orange High School in Pepper Pike in 1978. Stephanopoulos graduated from Columbia University in New York with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science, summa cum laude, in 1982. During his junior year at Columbia, he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and received a Harry S. Truman Scholarship. He also worked as a sports broadcaster for the university’s radio station, 89.9 WKCR-FM.
George took a job in Washington, D.C., as an aide to Democratic Congressman Ed Feighan of Ohio, promising his father that he would eventually attend law school. He was appointed as Feighan’s chief of staff. As a Rhodes Scholar, Stephanopoulos attended Balliol College at the University of Oxford in England, where he earned a Master of Arts in Theology in 1984.
George Stephanopoulos Family
George was born in Greece to Nickolitsa “Nikki” Gloria (née Chafos) and Robert George Stephanopoulos. His parents are both of Greek ancestry. His father is a Greek Orthodox priest and the emeritus dean of New York City’s Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity. His father is a retired priest from the Sts. Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. For many years, his mother was the director of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America National News Service. George took a job in Washington, D.C., as an aide to Democratic Congressman Ed Feighan of Ohio, promising his father that he would eventually attend law school. He was appointed as Feighan’s chief of staff.
George Stephanopoulos Wife
Stephanopoulos married Ali Wentworth, an actress, comedian, and writer, in 2001 at New York’s Upper East Side’s Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity. They have two daughters, born in 2002 and 2005, respectively.
George Stephanopoulos Politics
Stephanopoulos worked on Michael Dukakis’ 1988 presidential campaign in the United States. He has stated that one of the things that drew him to this campaign was the fact that Dukakis was a Greek-American liberal from Massachusetts. Following this campaign, Stephanopoulos worked as an executive floor assistant to Dick Gephardt, the Majority Leader of the United States House of Representatives, a position he held until joining the Clinton campaign.
During the Clinton administration, Stephanopoulos was a senior advisor for policy and strategy, focusing on crime legislation, affirmative action, and health care. In 1994, after Paula Jones accused Bill Clinton of sexual harassment, Stephanopoulos and James Carville attempted to debunk her claims. Both men suggested that Jones was only looking for money for her story, and they were successful in keeping her press conference off the air. Gennifer Flowers sued him for defamation in 1999. In the book, he accused her of doctoring a taped conversation with Clinton in order to make her story appear more credible.
George Stephanopoulos Net Worth
Stephanopoulos has an estimated net worth of $40 Million.
George Stephanopoulos Salary
Stephanopoulos earns an annual salary of $15 Million.
George Stephanopoulos Journalist
George took over as host of ABC’s This Week in September 2002, succeeding David Brinkley. In April 2008, he co-moderated the Democratic Party presidential debate between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, which received record ratings. During the 2008 presidential campaign, Stephanopoulos launched the ABC News website blog George’s Bottom Line.
In 2009, ABC News President David Westin offered George Stephanopoulos the position of Diane Sawyer on Good Morning America to George Stephanopoulos. Because of his relationship with Emanuel, Media Research Center President L. Brent Bozell III questioned Stephanopoulos’ ability to be objective in his coverage of the Obama administration. On January 10, 2010, Stephanopoulos announced that this would be his final broadcast as the permanent host of This Week. He agreed to a $105 million contract extension with ABC until 2021.
George Stephanopoulos Real estate
George signed an $835,000 commercial real estate deal with a below-market loan rate from a bank owned by Hugh McColl, whom President Clinton referred to as “America’s most enlightened banker.” According to a NationsBank commercial loan officer, this loan “did not fit our product matrix,” because banks typically offer such loans only to customers with deep pockets and on a short-term adjustable-rate basis. According to one NationsBank source, the issuance of a residential loan on mixed-use properties is so uncommon that it was not even addressed in the bank’s “Credit Policy Manual.”
