Carole Radziwill

Carole Ann Radziwill [ra'd͡͡ʑivʲiww]; (née DiFalco; born August 20, 1963) is an American journalist, author, and reality television personality.

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 stated that her parents were Democrats. She earned a B.A. at Hunter College and an M.B.A. at New York University.

Career

Journalism and writing

Radziwill began her news career at ABC in New York, in 1985, as an intern in postproduction for 20/20, 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 Cambodia, Haiti, and India.

In 1991, Radziwill was stationed in Iraq and reported on the SCUD missile attacks during the Gulf War. In 2003, during the War on Afghanistan, she spent six weeks in Kandahar, embedded with an infantry unit of the 101st Airborne Division. 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, and a Peabody.

After her husband's death, Radziwill left ABC News 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 (Scribner, 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."

In 2006, Radziwill signed with Glamour magazine to write a monthly column called Lunch Date. Her Lunch Dates have included former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani as well as Hollywood actors Antonio Banderas, Rachel Weisz, and Alec Baldwin.

She sold her first novel, The Widow's Guide to Sex & Dating, in a high six-figure deal 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 and producing.

In "A Ranking of the Richest Real Housewives from Every Season" (January 29, 2018), Money estimated Radziwill's net worth was $50 million dollars.

Personal life

On August 27, 1994, she and her fellow ABC News producer, Anthony Radziwiłł, the only son of Prince Stanisław Radziwiłł by his wife, Caroline Lee Bouvier, married in East Hampton, New York. Her husband died of cancer on August 10, 1999.

In 2014, Radziwill started dating chef Adam Kenworthy, 21 years her junior. The pair dated on and off before announcing their split in 2017.