Donna Rice Hughes
- January 9, 2024
- Model
Quick Facts
| Full Name | Donna Rice Hughes |
| Occupation | Model |
| Date Of Birth | Jan 7, 1958(1958-01-07) |
| Age | 66 |
| Birthplace | New Orleans |
| Country | United States |
| Birth City | Louisiana |
| Horoscope | Capricorn |
Donna Rice Hughes Biography
| Name | Donna Rice Hughes |
| Birthday | Jan 7 |
| Birth Year | 1958 |
| Place Of Birth | New Orleans |
| Home Town | Louisiana |
| Birth Country | United States |
| Birth Sign | Capricorn |
| Parents | William Homer Rice Jr., Miriam Carter Rice |
| Spouse | Jack Hughes |
| Children(s) | Mindy Hughes, Sean Hughes |
Donna Rice Hughes is one of the most popular and richest Model who was born on January 7, 1958 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Donna Rice Hughes (born January 7 in 1958) is the CEO and president of Enough Is Enough, an speaker, author and filmmaker. In her role as a member of Enough is Enough, Hughes has been featured on a variety of news outlets in the role of an Internet safety advocate. Her name first came to light for her role in a widely-publicized 1987 political scandal which helped to the end of the second election of the former senator Gary Hart for the Democratic Party nomination for president.
Hart’s popularity waned however in the polls, and those taken shortly afterward showed him to be 10 percentage points ahead of Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis in New Hampshire. On May 8th, 1987, a week after the report was published, Hart suspended his campaign following The Washington Post threatened to run an article on the woman Hart had been dating while being separated from his wife as well as his daughter and wife. were also subjects of attention for tabloids.
Hughes has testified before multiple congressional hearings on protecting children online. Hughes and Enough Is Enough supported the Communications Decency Act (CDA) of 1996, the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA), and the Child Online Protection Act (COPA). She was appointed by Senator Trent Lott to serve on the COPA Commission and served as co-chair of the COPA Hearings on filtering/ratings/labeling technologies. She also serves on various Internet safety advisory boards and task forces including the 2006 Virginia Attorney General’s Youth Internet Safety Task Force and the 2008 Internet Safety Technical Task Force, formed with MySpace and the U.S. Attorneys General. Beyond addressing the dangers of Internet pornography, Hughes has also spoken into the issue of privacy online, teen suicide and the impact of cyberbullying. She has received numerous awards including the National Law Center for Children and Families Annual Appreciation Award, and the “Protector of Children Award” and Media Impact Award from the National Abstinence Clearinghouse. Most recently, Hughes received the 2013 Women in Technology Leadership Award for “Social Impact.”
She co-wrote the story for the May 2000 season finale episode of Touched by an Angel that dealt with online safety. She authored the book Kids Online: Protecting Your Children in Cyberspace and website ProtectKids.com. As a platform issue of Enough Is Enough, she has written and spoken regularly on the harms of online bullying, the relational brokenness of young people, and the need for a safer, kinder and ethical community on and offline.
On the front cover of its 2nd June 1987 issue the tabloid with the most famous celebrity National Enquirer published a photograph of Rice sitting on Hart’s lap. The couple was photographed sitting on a dock on an excursion on the yacht Bimini which Hart, Rice and others went on prior to his announcement of his candidacy for president of the United States. Hart is sporting T-shirts with”Monkey Business” written on it. Monkey Business, the name of the boat. The photo was featured with an article entitled “Gary Hart Asked Me to Marry Him”. It was published a few weeks after Hart had suspended his campaign however, it has since been widely believed to be the reason for Hart’s departure. There are rumors that the image was created by Republican agent Lee Atwater to discredit Hart.
Donna Rice Hughes Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Model |
| House | Living in own house. |
Donna Rice Hughes is one of the richest Model from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Donna Rice Hughes 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Rice had a conversation with the former senator Gary Hart at a 1986-87 New Year’s Eve Party at the Aspen, Colorado home of her former lover the singer Don Henley. Rice later got to meet Hart in Miami and told him that she’s “very interested in getting into fund raising”. Shortly after the meeting with Rice, Hart announced that he was running for the nomination for president as the Democratic presidential candidate. He had a very successful campaign in 1984, against the eventual winner the former vice president Walter Mondale, he was widely regarded as a front-runner to win his Democratic presidential nomination for 1988. Soon after, rumors started to circulate about his status as known to be a “womanizer”, leading the candidate to ask the media to watch his behavior as well as to assert that those who do so could “be very bored.” But he did not intend to allow reporters to be “skulking around in the shadows” in his house.
When she finished college, she competed in her in the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant and took home the title. She traveled on to New York to compete nationally. Rice then moved to Miami and began her career as a representative of marketing for the pharmaceutical large Wyeth Laboratories in South Florida. She was also a television commercial actress, and was featured in an episode from 1986 of the television series Miami Vice as well as an episode of the soap show One Life to Live, as well as a secretary role in the film The Last Plane Out.
Since 1994, when she became communications director and spokesperson for Enough Is Enough, an American secular nonpartisan non-profit organization whose mission is to make the Internet safer for families and children, Hughes has been an advocate and speaker on the issue of protecting children online. Hughes became president and CEO of the organization in 2002. The organization has produced an Internet Safety 101SM program with the Department of Justice and other partners. She is the executive producer, host and instructor of the Internet Safety 101 DVD series, which ran as a TV series on PBS, garnering Hughes an Emmy nomination in 2012 and the series an Emmy Award in 2013.
Height, Weight & Body Measurements
| Height | 5 ft 6 in |
Donna Rice Hughes height 5 ft 6 in Donna weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.
Who is Donna Rice Hughes Dating?
According to our records, Donna Rice Hughes married to Jack Hughes. As of December 1, 2023, Donna Rice Hughes’s is not dating anyone.
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In November 2017, Hughes joined Candy Carson and others at the invitation of Homemakers for America for the grand opening of the Museum of the Bible in Washington D.C. to ring the replica of the Liberty Bell, launching a nationwide ringing of bells by churches to calling Americans to come together to “Let Freedom Ring!”
Facts & Trivia
Donna Ranked on the list of most popular Model. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Donna Rice Hughes celebrates birthday on January 7 of every year.
The scandal is depicted in the 2018 film The Front Runner, with Rice played by Sara Paxton.
Who is Donna Rice's husband?
Jack Hughes
How old is Donna Rice now?
64 years (January 7, 1958)
Who is Gary Hart married to?
Lee Ludwig Hart
How old is Gary Hart?
85 years (November 28, 1936)
Is the front runner accurate?
The movie gets the bones of its story right, but it makes up some bits along the way. The film features a number of characters that are either wholly fictional or hybrids of several real people, in an effort to streamline the story, make for a more dramatic film, or both.