Suzanne Finstad

Quick Facts

Full Name	Suzanne Finstad
Occupation	Lawyer
Date Of Birth	Sep 14, 1955(1955-09-14)
Age	69
Birthplace	Minneapolis
Country	United States
Birth City	Minnesota
Horoscope	Virgo

Suzanne Finstad Biography

Suzanne Finstad is one of the most popular and richest Lawyer who was born on September 14, 1955 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Suzanne Finstad (born Suzanne Elaine Finstad on September 14 1955, in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is a best-selling American biographer, author journalist, producer and lawyer.

Finstad created the bestseller in the nation, Sleeping with the Devil (1991) which is a non-fiction story about the murder-for-hire case of Barbra Piotrowski who was a California beauty queen caught in an unresolved relationship with an engaged Texas businessman from the health industry called Richard Minns, who was believed to have hired the assassins who killed and disabled Piotrowski. The book was featured in Cosmopolitan and was published throughout France, Italy, and Germany. A critic said that Sleeping With the Devil “a true American tragedy”. Others called it “hypnotic,” “. . . A disturbing book about scams, adultery as well as misuse of power, and attempted murder . . . It is a must read.” The book includes specifics on Minns arrest on fraudulent passports, which was made possible by the information provided by Finstad who, according to in the Dallas Morning News,”fearlessly got into the tale of the fascinating, complex, and brilliant man who has managed to stay out of the jurisdiction of the courts as well as the Houston Police.” Sleeping With the Devil was turned into a film for CBS which ran on the air in 1997. Finstad was an Associate Producer.

The film rights to Natasha were purchased by ABC in 2001 before the galleys were released. Peter Bogdanovich directed the adaptation, which aired on ABC as a three-hour movie and was shown as a four-hour miniseries in Australia. Finstad was Co-Executive Producer. The New York Times review of Finstad’s book called Natasha “a sad, penetrating portrait that juxtaposes the storybook myth . . . and the real story of what happened once the cameras stopped rolling.”. In his review for the Washington Post Book World, Jonathan Yardley observed, “Finstad has a keen sense of how that city’s dream factory simultaneously turns women into stars and leaves them bereft.”

In 2001, Finstad wrote the New York Times bestseller Natasha: The Biography of Natalie Wood, published by Harmony/Crown and released in the UK by Century London. Natasha was named the Best Film Book of 2001 by the San Francisco Chronicle and it was also named one of the Top 10 Books of 2001 by the Economist. Natasha, excerpted in People, was hailed as “the definitive Natalie Wood” by Premiere Magazine. The Chicago Tribune called it “an insightful, haunting page-turner of a book;”, “remarkably researched,” stated the Baltimore Sun, “. . . certain things stay with you.” “The information Finstad has discovered about Wood’s horrific childhood, her anxiety-ridden stardom, and her mysterious death is deeply disturbing,” noted Variety. “Heartstopping,” proclaimed the Toronto National Post. “…a life entangled in mystical oddities, described with academic flair…the climax — death by drowning — is reached with a Chekhovian inevitability.”

The year 1988 was the time that Finstad published a feature about the Queen Noor from Jordan, the stunning blond American who was married to King Hussein after she graduated from Princeton’s first class in order to accept women (“The Incredible Adventure of Lisa Halaby”). This led to a contract with Finstad to create a biographical account about queen Noor to be published by Villard Books after the Gulf War. Finstad traveled extensively across Middle East countries Middle East and elsewhere for her research. The article was set aside due to reasons of political significance. CBS later offered the magazine article.

Suzanne Finstad Net Worth

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

Finstad was awarded her Frank Wardlaw Award in the year 1984 for excellence in literature for her debut novel, Heir Not Apparent (1984) which was based on her experience as a legal clerk and trial lawyer researching concerns over the billion dollar fortune of industrialist, pilot and filmmaker Howard Hughes, who appeared to be dead without having a valid will. American Cinematographer described Heir Not Apparent as an “spellbinding account of intrigues by lawyers, relatives and fortune hunters for a share in the Hughes estate.” Kirkus Reviews praised the book that was featured in Penthouse the magazine, in the magazine as “immediate and engrossing.” Other critics described it as “strikingly literate,” “a love story for those who like detective stories . . . The stuff that good novels are constructed of.”

Her third novel, Ulterior Motives: The killing and Dark Legacy of Tycoon Henry Kyle (1987), introduced her to the genre of the non-fiction true-crime novel inspired by Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, centering on the infamous murder trial that made it clear that the self-made millionaire Kyle was murdered by his son’s older one was an unsettling Jekyll-Hyde character and a long list of hidden secrets, including a secret spouse and daughter. Ulterior Motives, that began as an Rolling Stone assignment into Kyle’s mysterious death in his rundown Sunset Boulevard mansion, presents an authentic story that is full of “money, greed, family discord, drugs and a bigger-than-life cast of characters,” according to the Houston Post. “She handles the story deftly and sensitively,” said the book critic of The Dallas Morning News, “with touches of irony and humor.”

Finstad spent the next three years researching and writing Child Bride: The Untold Story of Priscilla Beaulieu Presley (1997), the first biography of Priscilla Presley. Finstad offered a detailed account of Priscilla Beaulieu’s childhood, including Priscilla’s discovery of her true father at eleven, her courtship by Elvis Presley when she was 14 years old, their marriage, and her management of Elvis Presley Enterprises after their divorce and his death. Child Bride was based on extensive interviews with Priscilla Presley, her family, her close friends, her classmates, her co-stars and numerous members of Elvis’ circle in Memphis and Germany, including Currie Grant, a former Army buddy of Elvis, who introduced Priscilla to Elvis. Harmony/Crown published Child Bride in 1997; Century London published the book in the U.K. While Child Bride was on several cities’ bestseller lists, Priscilla filed a lawsuit against Currie Grant, denying his claim that she had sex with him in exchange for introducing her to Elvis Presley. In the book, Finstad included excerpts from her taped joint interview with Grant and Priscilla Presley, who disagreed with certain points that Finstad had independently documented. Priscilla’s suit resulted in a default judgment against Grant, whom Priscilla had sued for at least $10 million. He was ordered to pay $75,000. However, neither Finstad nor her publisher was a party to the lawsuit, and Finstad and her publisher say they stand by their account of the affair in the book. “Priscilla’s secrets come rolling out,” Entertainment Weekly stated in its feature review, “…backed up by interviews with scores of sources.” “Child Bride shatters the accepted myths,” reported the London Daily Mail.

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Facts & Trivia

Suzanne Ranked on the list of most popular Lawyer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Suzanne Finstad celebrates birthday on September 14 of every year.