Mark Ebner
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Biography
Mark Ebner (born Mark Charles Ebner, 1959) is an award winning American journalist and New York Times bestselling author who has covered all aspects of celebrity and crime culture for Spy, Rolling Stone, Maxim, Details, Los Angeles Magazine, Premiere, Salon, Spin, Radar, The Daily Beast, Gawker, BoingBoing, and New Times.
Ebner has repeatedly positioned himself in harm’s way to be out front on major stories such as Scientology, Bill Cosby's rape accusations, pit bull fighting, the Ku Klux Klan, celebrity stalkers, drug kingpins, missing porn stars, sports groupies, college suicides, and Hepatitis C in Hollywood.
He has produced for and/appeared as an expert commentator on NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, A&E, Comedy Central, REELZ, Showtime, The History Channel, Channel 4 (UK), National Public Radio, Court TV, TruTV "The Today Show," "The Early Show," "Out Front with Erin Burnett," "Inside Edition," "Hard Copy," "Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn," and "Crime Watch Daily."
Ebner also consulted on the Emmy-nominated Trapped in the Closet episode of South Park for Comedy Central, and “The Paris Hilton Tapes” on NBC/Dateline. He hosted “Rich and Reckless” for TruTV, was a featured guest on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart." His books include the NY Times bestseller Hollywood, Interrupted, Poison Candy, Being Uncle Charlie, We Have Your Husband, and the Hollywood true-crime saga, Six Degrees of Paris Hilton.