Judith Regan | |
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Born |
Judith Regan 17 August 1953 Massachusetts |
Nationality | United States |
Occupation | Publisher |
Children | 2 children |
Judith Regan (born August 17, 1953, in Massachusetts) is an American editor, producer, book publisher, and television and radio talk show host. She is the head of the Regan Arts division of Phaidon Press.
Regan grew up in Fitchburg, Massachusetts and Bay Shore, New York. She graduated from Bay Shore High School in 1971. She graduated from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York in 1975 with a bachelor's degree in English and Art History. She went on to study art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
In 1977, she was recruited by The National Enquirer while working as a secretary at the Harvard Institute of Politics.
Regan grew up in a large extended Sicilian and Irish family on a farm outside Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Her parents Rita and Leo were both schoolteachers. She is the middle child of two brothers and two sisters.
With psychologist David Buckley, whom she never married, she had son Patrick 1980 or 1982. In 1987 she married New York City financial planner Robert Kleinschmidt. Their daughter Lara was born in 1991. The couple separated soon after, and were divorced in 2000.
In 2001, she had an affair with Bernard B. Kerik, the New York City police commissioner and aide to Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani.