Judith Miller Biography
Judith Miller is an American journalist and commentator who is best known for her coverage of Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) program during and after the 2003 invasion, which was ultimately revealed to be based on incorrect intelligence. Before joining Fox News in 2008, she worked in the Washington bureau of The New York Times.
Judith Miller Age
Miller is 74 years old as of 2022. She was born on 2 January 1948 in New York, New York, United States.
Judith Miller Height
Miller stands at a height of 5 feet 7 inches (1.7m).
Judith Miller Family
Miller’s father, Bill Miller, was Jewish and was born in Russia. He started out as the owner of the Riviera nightclub in New Jersey and then went on to run many casinos in Las Vegas. Bill Miller was recognized for scheduling well-known entertainers in Las Vegas. His greatest achievement was convincing Elvis Presley to return to Las Vegas following a failed booking. Her mother was a “beautiful Irish Catholic showgirl,” as she described herself. Miller is Jimmy Miller’s half-sister, who worked as a record producer for numerous legendary rock bands from the 1960s to the 1990s, including the Rolling Stones, Traffic, and Cream.
Judith Miller Husband
Miller is married to Jason Epstein. The couple married in 1993. He was the editorial director of Random House. In 1963, he co-founded The New York Review of Books.
Judith Miller Education
Miller was a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority at Ohio State University. She earned a master’s degree in public affairs from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs after graduating from Columbia University’s Barnard College in 1969. She dated one of the newspaper’s other correspondence, Steven Rattner, early in her career at The New York Times bureau in Washington, D.C. She married Jason Epstein, a publisher, and editor, in 1993.
Judith Miller The Iraq War
During the early years of the Iraq War, Miller worked as a reporter for The New York Times and The Washington Post. She wrote on security issues, including Iraq and weapons of mass destruction, which ultimately proved to be based on incorrect information. Inspectors in Iraq “saw nothing to prompt a war,” according to one of her unproven stories. In an editorial, it was expressed sorrow that “controversial information was permitted to stand uncontested.” Miller spent 85 days in jail in 2005, facing federal criminal proceedings for refusing to reveal a source in the Plame incident, and negotiated a confidential severance settlement with the paper’s publisher.
Judith Miller Islam
Shortly after the September 11 attacks, the US authorities considered adding the Holy Land Foundation to a list of suspected terrorist organizations and planned to inspect the organization’s properties. Miller received knowledge about the forthcoming raid from a confidential source. Miller contacted the Holy Land Foundation for a response on December 3, 2001, and The New York Times carried a piece in the late edition papers and on its online the same day. The government searched HLF’s offices the next day. These events prompted US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to file a lawsuit, alleging that Miller and her colleague Philip Shenon had questioned this Islamic charity, as well as another, in a way that alerted them to the intended inspections.
Judith Miller Anthrax Hoax
Miller read an anthrax fake letter addressed to her New York Times office on October 12, 2001. Anthrax-laced letters were mailed to ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, and the New York Post in New York City, as well as the National Enquirer in Boca Raton, Florida, in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks in 2001. On October 9, 2001, two more letters were written to Senators Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy in Washington.
In the fall of 2001, Miller was the only prominent U.S. media reporter, and The New York Times was the only major U.S. media institution, to be targeted by a phony anthrax letter. Miller had written extensively about biological dangers and co-authored a book on bioterrorism, Germs: Biological Weapons and America’s Secret War, with Stephen Engelberg and William Broad, which was released on October 2, 2001. “U.S. Germ Warfare Research Pushes Treaty Limits,” a New York Times piece co-authored by Miller on Pentagon efforts to develop a more potent variant of weaponized anthrax, was published on September 4, 2001, weeks before the first anthrax mailings.
Judith Miller Salary
Miller has an annual salary of $117,498.
Judith Miller Net Worth
Miller has an estimated net worth of $2 billion.
Judith Miller The New York Times
Miller was a part of the team that received the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting in 2001 for its coverage of worldwide terrorism before and after the September 11 attacks at The New York Times. The award was given to her and James Risen, and one of the cited articles was written under her byline.
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