Princess Carole Ann Radziwiłł (; ; born August 20, 1963) is an American journalist, author, and television personality. Throughout the course of nearly two decades working as a journalist and producer for

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, Radziwill's reporting earned her three Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, and a GLAAD Media Award. After leaving ABC News, she wrote a memoir, called ''What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship and Love''. Released in 2005, it became a ''New York Times'' bestseller. From 2012 to 2018, Radziwill appeared as a main cast member on the

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reality series '' The Real Housewives of New York City''.

Early life and education

Carole Ann DiFalco was born on August 20, 1963, and grew up in a working-class family in Suffern, New York. She is of Italian descent. She earned a B.A. in English at

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and an M.B.A. at

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Career

Journalism and writing

Radziwill began her news career at

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in New York, in 1985, as an intern in postproduction for ''

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'', a news magazine show. She was later assigned to ''Close Up'' as a production secretary. Radziwill eventually worked for Peter Jennings' documentary unit, producing shows on abortion and gun control, and covering foreign policy stories in

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, and

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. In 1991, Radziwill was stationed in

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and reported on the

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missile attacks during the

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. In 2003, during the War in

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, she spent six weeks in

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, embedded with an infantry unit of the

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. She produced segments for an ABC-TV show called ''Profiles from the Frontline''. Radziwill has won several awards, including three Emmys, one for a story she produced on land mines in Cambodia, a Peabody, and a

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. After her husband's death, Radziwill left

to write a memoir about her personal life, her career at ABC News, as well as her effort to manage her husband's cancer. ''What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship and Love'' (

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, 2005) made the ''New York Times'' Best Seller List. A review of the book in ''The New York Times'' called it a "bittersweet account" that emphasized "graciousness over disclosure." Radziwill signed with ''Glamour'' magazine to write a monthly column called ''Lunch Date''. Her Lunch Dates have included former New York City mayor

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as well as Hollywood actors

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, Rachel Weisz, and

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. She sold her first novel, ''The Widow's Guide to Sex & Dating'', to Holt Publishing. It was released on February 11, 2014.

Reality TV

In 2011, Radziwill joined the cast of Bravo TV's '' The Real Housewives of New York City''. On July 25, 2018, she announced she was leaving the show after six seasons (seasons 5–10). Radziwill said she wanted to go back to journalism.

Personal life

On August 27, 1994, she and her fellow ABC News producer, Prince

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, married in

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. Her husband died of cancer on August 10, 1999. Radziwill briefly dated Russ Irwin of Aerosmith. Irwin appears on Bravo's "Real Housewives of New York City", Season 5. In 2014, Radziwill started dating chef Adam Kenworthy, 21 years her junior. The pair dated on and off before announcing their split in 2017. Following the arrest of socialite

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for sex trafficking, images of Radziwill photographed with Maxwell resurfaced online. Radziwill also appears in the contact book of American financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Radziwill stated she was "friendly" with Maxwell in the early 2000s, but hasn't spoken with her in over a decade. Radziwill denied knowing Epstein and stated she was unaware of any misconduct.

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