Rebekah Brooks

Quick Facts

Full Name	Rebekah Brooks
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	May 27, 1968(1968-05-27)
Age	56
Birthplace	Warrington
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Taurus

Rebekah Brooks Biography

Rebekah Brooks is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on May 27, 1968 in Warrington, England, United Kingdom. Former CEO of News International, who was the most prominent and controversial editor of News of the World.

Both she and She and entrepreneur Rupert Murdoch were both implicated in the News of the World phone-hacking scandal. , an entrepreneur, were implicated in the News of the World phone hacking scandal.

She joined the Sunday newspaper News of the World in 1989 as a secretary, before working as a feature writer for its Sunday magazine, eventually becoming the paper’s deputy editor. In 1994, she prepared for the News of the World’ s interview with James Hewitt, a lover of Diana, Princess of Wales, by reserving a hotel suite and hiring a team to “kit it out with secret tape devices in various flowerpots and cupboards”, Piers Morgan, her former boss, wrote in his memoir The Insider, The New York Times relayed in July 2011. In 1998, she transferred to the News of the World’ s daily counterpart, The Sun for a short time. She then returned to the News of the World in 2000 as editor; at the time, she was the youngest editor of a national British newspaper.

Brooks was a prominent figure in the News International phone hacking scandal, having been the editor of the News of the World from 2000 to 2003 when one of the stories which involved illegal phone hacking was carried out by the newspaper. Following a criminal trial in 2014 she was cleared of all charges by a jury at the Old Bailey, which accepted her defence: that in the circumstances she had no knowledge of the illegal acts carried out by staff at the newspaper.

From 2002 to 2009, she was married to actor She was married to actor Ross Kemp from 2002 to 2009. She married her second husband Charlie Brooks in 2009, and they had one child together.. In 2009, she married her second husband Charlie Brooks and had one child.

Rebekah Brooks Net Worth

Rebekah Brooks is one of the richest Journalist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Rebekah Brooks 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Although she claimed that she had attended The Sorbonne in Paris once, it was later revealed that she lied and never studied there.

She was a key figure in Murdochgate (the scandal involving News Corporation figurehead She was an instrumental figure in Murdochgate, or the scandal involving News Corporation figurehead Rupert Murdoch, which alleged that she and members of her staff engaged in phone hacking and police bribery to secure stories on celebrities.), in which it was alleged she and her staff engaged phone hacking and police corruption to secure stories about celebrities.

Rebekah Mary Brooks (née Wade; born 27 May 1968) is a British journalist and former newspaper editor. She was chief executive officer of News International from 2009 to 2011, having previously served as the youngest editor of a British national newspaper at News of the World, from 2000 to 2003, and the first female editor of The Sun, from 2003 to 2009. Brooks married actor Ross Kemp in 2002. They divorced in 2009 and she married former racehorse trainer and author Charlie Brooks.

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Who is Rebekah Brooks Dating?

According to our records, Rebekah Brooks married to Charlie Brooks , Ross Kemp. As of December 1, 2023, Rebekah Brooks’s is not dating anyone.

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In Brooks’s entry in Who’s Who she stated that she had studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, but did not claim to have a degree, and did not later answer questions about this. In a 2003 Spectator article, Stephen Glover suggested that, since she was working at the age of 20 for the News of the World, “we can safely assume that she did not study at the Sorbonne in any meaningful way”. In 2010, Brooks was awarded an honorary Fellowship from the University of the Arts, London, for her contribution to journalism. She attended the London College of Communication, now part of the university, as a student.

Facts & Trivia

Rebekah Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Rebekah Brooks celebrates birthday on May 27 of every year.

A police enquiry revealed that the News of the World had a routine practice of intercepting mobile phone messages of celebrities, politicians and other public figures. The newspaper’s reporter, Clive Goodman, and Glenn Mulcaire, a hired investigator, were convicted and jailed for intercepting the phone messages of members of the Royal Family in 2006.

Who is Rebekah Brooks husband?

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How much does Rebekah Brooks earn?

News UK chief executive Rebekah Brooks received £2.442m in 2020, but was paid £3.609m the year after.

What happened to Rebekah Brooks?

Former Sun and News Of The World editor Rebekah Brooks is joining the board of a listed company for the first time. The 51-year-old, who is chief executive of News UK, the British division of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, will take a non-executive director role at AIM-listed marketing firm Tremor International.

What happened to the News of the World editor?

Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson – who was jailed after the phone- hacking scandal – has now been hired to do PR for the Telegraph. Coulson’s PR firm, Coulson Chappel, has been awarded a contract to promote newspapers at Telegraph Media Group as ‘truthful and authoritative’, according to the Guardian.

How long was Ross Kemp married to Rebekah Brooks?

In the late 90s, Ross began dating journalist Rebekah Wade, who was then working for the now defunct News of the World. The couple got engaged in 1996 and married in 2002, by which point Rebekah was the editor of The Sun. Sadly, the marriage wasn’t to last and the couple officially divorced in 2009.