Arianna Huffington
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Huffington in 2014
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| Born | Ariadnē-Anna Stasinopoúlou Αριάδνη-Άννα Στασινοπούλου July 15, 1950 Athens, Greece |
| Occupation | Journalist, Entrepreneur |
| Citizenship | Greek American |
| Alma mater | Girton College, Cambridge |
| Subject | Politics, spirituality, environment, liberalism |
| Spouse | Michael Huffington (m. 1986; div. 1997) |
Arianna Huffington (maiden name Stasinopoúlou; born Αριάδνη-Άννα Στασινοπούλου, July 15, 1950) is a Greek American author, syndicated columnist, occasional actress, and businesswoman.
Huffington was the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, which is now owned by AOL. She was a popular conservative commentator in the mid-1990s, after which, in the 1990s, she offered liberal points of view in public, while remaining involved in business endeavors.
Her full name is often rendered in English as Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington. She is the former spouse of former Republican congressman Michael Huffington. Before she married Michael Huffington, her name was typically rendered in English as Stassinopoulos rather than Stassinopoulou.
In 2003, she ran as an independent candidate for governor in the California recall election and lost.
In 2009, Huffington was #12 in Forbes's first-ever list of the Most Influential Women In Media. She has also moved up to #42 in The Guardian's Top 100 in Media List. As of 2014, she is listed by Forbes as the 52nd Most Powerful Woman in the World.
In 2011, AOL acquired The Huffington Post for US$315 million, and made Huffington the President and Editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post Media Group, which included The Huffington Post and then-existing AOL properties including AOL Music, Engadget, Patch Media, and StyleList.
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