American investigative journalist
Mark Charles Ebner (born September 6, 1959) is an American journalist and a
New York Times bestselling author
[2] who has covered 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 covered the
Church of Scientology ,
Bill Cosby 's
rape accusations ,
pit bull fighting , the
Ku Klux Klan , celebrity stalkers, drug kingpins,
missing porn star Viper , sports groupies,
college suicides , and
Hepatitis C in
Hollywood .
[3]
[4]
[5]
[6]
[7]
He has produced for, and/or appeared as a commentator on news stations
NBC ,
ABC ,
CBS ,
CNN ,
MSNBC ,
FOX ,
A&E ,
Comedy Central ,
Reelz ,
Showtime ,
History Channel ,
Channel 4 (UK),
National Public Radio ,
Court TV , and
TruTV , and the entertainment shows
The Daily Show with
Jon Stewart ,
The Today Show ,
The Early Show ,
Out Front with
Erin Burnett ,
Anderson Cooper 360° ,
Fox & Friends ,
Inside Edition ,
Hard Copy ,
Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn ,
Crime Watch Daily , and Media Mayhem. Ebner consulted for Comedy Central on "
Trapped in the Closet ", an episode of
South Park , and for NBC/Dateline on "The Paris Hilton Tapes".
[8] He hosted "Rich and Reckless" for TruTV.
[9] His books include Hollywood, Interrupted , Poison Candy , Being Uncle Charlie , We Have Your Husband , Six Degrees of Paris Hilton, and Off the Deep End.
Works
Granda, Giancarlo; Ebner, Mark (2022). Off the Deep End: Jerry and Becki Falwell and the Collapse of an Evangelical Dynasty . HarperCollins.
ISBN
9780063227361 .
Parker, Elizabeth; Ebner, Mark (2014). Poison Candy: The Murderous Madam: Inside Dalia Dippolito's Plot to Kill . BenBella Books.
ISBN
9781939529022 .
Deasy, Bob; Ebner, Mark (2013). "Being Uncle Charlie: A Life Undercover with Killers, Kingpins, Bikers and Druglords . Random House Canada.
ISBN
9780345812827 .
Valseca, Jayne Garcia; Ebner, Mark (2011). We Have Your Husband: One Woman's Terrifying Story of a Kidnapping in Mexico . Penguin/Berkley True Crime.
ISBN
9780425241783 .
Ebner, Mark (2009). Six Degrees of Paris Hilton: Inside the Sex Tapes, Scandals, and Shakedowns of the New Hollywood . Simon Spotlight Entertainment.
ISBN
9781416959342 .
Ebner, Mark;
Breitbart, Andrew (2005).
Hollywood, Interrupted: Insanity Chic in Babylon – The Case Against Celebrity . John Wiley & Sons Inc.
ISBN
0471706248 .
Knowles, Harry ; Cullum, Paul; Ebner, Mark;
Tarantino, Quentin (2002). Ain't It Cool?: Hollywood's Redheaded Stepchild Speaks Out . Warner.
ISBN
0446525979 .
See also
References
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a
b
"Birth reference for Mark Charles Ebner" . FamilySearch.org . Retrieved May 31, 2017 .
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"Best Sellers, March 21, 2004" . The New York Times . March 21, 2004. Archived from
the original on August 22, 2017. Retrieved August 8, 2016 .
^ Ebner, Mark (January 1996).
"Do You Want to Buy a Bridge" .
Spy Magazine : 36–40. Retrieved August 7, 2016 .
"Do You Want To Buy A Bridge?" .
Hollywood, Interrupted . September 2017.
^ Ebner, Mark (December 30, 2015).
"I Warned You About Bill Cosby in 2007" .
The Daily Beast . Archived from
the original on June 5, 2017. Retrieved August 7, 2016 .
^ FishbowlNY (November 5, 2007).
"FBLA 20 Questions: Mark Ebner" .
Adweek . Archived from
the original on August 20, 2016. Retrieved August 7, 2016 .
^ Gallagher, Paul (December 17, 2012).
"Mark Ebner's 'The Rat': An incredible true tale of a Drug Kingpin who turned Informant" .
Dangerousminds.net . Retrieved August 7, 2016 . Ebner, Mark (September 25, 2017).
"The Rat" .
^ Ebner, Mark (October 9, 2008).
"Death of a Net Head" .
Gawker . Archived from
the original on April 8, 2010. Retrieved August 8, 2016 .
^ Morrison, Keith (September 23, 2006).
"How Paris Hilton Helped Solve a Crime" .
NBCNews.com . Retrieved August 7, 2016 .
^
"The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Mark Ebner" .
Comedy Central . March 2, 2004. Retrieved August 7, 2016 .
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