Contents
- 1 George Stephanopoulos Age
- 2 George Stephanopoulos Salary
- 3 George Stephanopoulos Net Worth
- 4 George Stephanopoulos Journalist
- 5 George Stephanopoulos Real estate
- 6 George Stephanopoulos Height and Weight
- 7 George Stephanopoulos Education
- 8 George Stephanopoulos Family
- 9 George Stephanopoulos Wife
- 10 George Stephanopoulos Politics
George Stephanopoulos an American television host, political commentator, and former Democratic advisor, he currently serves as a co-anchor on Good Morning America with Robin Roberts and Michael Strahan and host of This Week, ABC’s Sunday morning current events news program. As of 2014 to 2020, he servedas the ABC News’ “Chief Anchor,” but he was demoted to mornings only back in 2021 as David Muir took on new responsibilities covering breaking news in the evenings and prime time.
George Stephanopoulos Age
Stephanopoulos was born George Robert Stephanopoulos on 10 February 1961 in Fall River, Massachusetts, United States.
George Stephanopoulos Salary
Stephanopoulos earns an estimated annual salary range of of $1 Million-15 million.
George Stephanopoulos Net Worth
Stephanopoulos has an estimated net worth of $40 Million.
George Stephanopoulos Journalist
George began working as host of ABC’s This Week in September 2002, succeeding David Brinkley. Back in April 2008, he co-moderated the Democratic Party presidential debate between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, that earned record ratings. On the the 2008 presidential campaign, he launched the ABC News website blog George’s Bottom Line.
Back in 2009, ABC News President David Westin offered him the position of Diane Sawyer on Good Morning America to George Stephanopoulos. With the relationship with Emanuel, Media Research Center President L. Brent Bozell III questioned Stephanopoulos’ ability to be objective in his coverage of the Obama administration. Back on January 10, 2010, her announced that this would have his final broadcast as the permanent host of This Week. He as well agreed to a $105 million contract extension with ABC until 2021.
George Stephanopoulos Real estate
George got to sign an $835,000 commercial real estate deal with a below-market loan rate from a bank owned by Hugh McColl, whom President Clinton referred to as “America’s most enlightened banker.” According to a NationsBank commercial loan officer, this loan “did not fit our product matrix,” because banks typically offer such loans only to customers with deep pockets and on a short-term adjustable-rate basis. According to one NationsBank source, the issuance of a residential loan on mixed-use properties is so uncommon that it was not even addressed in the bank’s “Credit Policy Manual.”
George Stephanopoulos Height and Weight
George stands tall at a height of feet – 5 feet 6 inches (1.65 m) and has an average body weight.
George Stephanopoulos Education
Stephanopoulos relocated to Cleveland’s eastern suburbs, where he enrolled and later graduated from Orange High School in Pepper Pike back in 1978. He as well graduated from Columbia University in New York with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science, summa cum laude, in 1982. While in his junior year at Columbia, he got elected to Phi Beta Kappa and received a Harry S. Truman Scholarship. He also worked as a sports broadcaster for the university’s radio station, 89.9 WKCR-FM.
He later took a job in Washington, D.C., as an aide to Democratic Congressman Ed Feighan of Ohio, promising his father that he would eventually attend law school. He got appointed as Feighan’s chief of staff. As a Rhodes Scholar, and as well attended Balliol College at the University of Oxford in England, where he earned a Master of Arts in Theology in 1984.
George Stephanopoulos Family
George was born to Nickolitsa “Nikki” Gloria (née Chafos) and Robert George Stephanopoulo both of Greek ancestry. His father is a Greek Orthodox priest and the emeritus dean of New York City’s Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity. His father is a retired priest from the Sts. Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. For many years, his mother was the director of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America National News Service. George took a job in Washington, D.C., as an aide to Democratic Congressman Ed Feighan of Ohio, promising his father that he would eventually attend law school. He was appointed as Feighan’s chief of staff.
George Stephanopoulos Wife
Stephanopoulos is married to Ali Wentworth, an actress, comedian, and writer. The duo got narried in 2001 at New York’s Upper East Side’s Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity. The duo is blessed with two daughters, born in 2002 and 2005, respectively.
George Stephanopoulos Politics
Stephanopoulos served on Michael Dukakis’ 1988 presidential campaign in the United States. He shared that one of the things that drew him to this campaign was the fact that Dukakis was a Greek-American liberal from Massachusetts. He then served as an executive floor assistant to Dick Gephardt, the Majority Leader of the United States House of Representatives, a position he served to the time he joined the Clinton campaign.
On Clinton administration, he served as a senior advisor for policy and strategy, focusing on crime legislation, affirmative action, and health care. Back in 1994, after Paula Jones accused Bill Clinton of sexual harassment, he along with James Carville attempted to debunk her claims. They suggested that Jones was only looking for money for her story, and they were successful in keeping her press conference off the air. Gennifer Flowers sued him for defamation in 1999. In the book, he accused her of doctoring a taped conversation with Clinton in order to make her story appear more credible.