Diane Dimond Biography
Diane is an investigative journalist, blogger, writer, and TV pundit. She hails from the United States of America. She is famous for breaking the news of Michael Jackson’s child harassment claims and airing the subsequent criminal trial. Court TV, Hard Copy, Entertainment Tonight, Plus, NBC and Investigation Discovery all employed her as a correspondent.
Diane Dimond Age
She was born on 15th November 1952 in Burbank, California, US. Dimond is 69 years old as of 2021. She celebrates her birthday on 15, November every year.
Diane Dimond Education
She went to Mark Twain Elementary School and Jefferson Middle School as well as Highland High School.
Diane Dimond Height
Diane has a height of 5 feet 7 inches (1.70 m) tall.
Diane Dimond Family
Dimond was born and grew up in Burbank, California, she is the only child of Ruby and Allen Hughes. The family relocated to Albuquerque, New Mexico where her parents owned, managed and operated the Hughes Meat Co.
Diane Dimond Husband
Her first marriage was to Chuck Dimond, a news anchor with a daughter, Jenna. They later separated in the year 1974. Dimond married a TV journalist, an anchor for CBS Radio News, and a voice-over Michael Schoen in the month of January 1991.
Diane Dimond Career
She started her profession as a reporter at KOB Radio, where she aired legal and policy matters. She was gifted the Silver Gavel Award by the American Bar Association in the year 1976 for her job on the Albuquerque Sheriff’s Office’s misuse of money. Come 1976, she moved to Washington, D.C., where she served as an anchor for NPR’s All Things Considered. From the year 1980 until 1986, Dimond served at RKO Radio Networks as a legislative and government reporter. Dimond got her first on-air TV job in 1986 at New York City’s flagship CBS station, WCBS-TV.
For the past four years, she has been appointed for several high-profile scandals, among them a New Jersey chromium poisoning investigation and a Long Island child harassment case. Dimond started serving as an investigative journalist for the TV news show Hard Copy in the year 1990. During her seven-year tenure, she aired a number of the world’s most infamous court cases. To add to the OJ Simpson case, Heidi Fleiss, Hollywood Madame; Pamela Smart, who was alleged of persuading her high school student/lover to sniff life out of her husband; Kenneth Bianchi, Green Beret Killer, Hillside Strangler, Jeffrey McDonald, James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassin and Richard Allen Davis, Polly Klass’s assassin were interviewed.
Come 1998, Dimond got to NBC News, where she co-hosted UpFront Tonight, a weekly CNBC broadcast with Geraldo Rivera, and aired some of the most high-profile stories of the day, among the stories was former President Bill Clinton’s trial. She continued to air the 2000 general election and afterwards served as a daytime correspondent for MSNBC. Dimond started her freelance profession after quitting MSNBC in the summer of 2001, serving as an anchor for Court television then, following the September 11th 2001, terrorist attacks, as an anchor for FOX News’ War on Terror coverage. Dimond has been on a series of other shows and networks, including CNN, as a guest on-air reporter.
Diane Dimond Salary
Dimond receives a yearly salary ranging from $40,000 – $ 110,500.
Diane Dimond Net Worth
Dimond has a net worth ranging from $1 Million – $5 Million that she has garnered through her journalism profession.
Diane Dimond NBC
In the year 1998, Dimond got to NBC News, where she co-hosted UpFront Tonight, a weekly CNBC broadcast with Geraldo Rivera, and aired some of the most high-profile stories of the day, among them the former President Bill Clinton’s trial. She went further to air the 2000 general election and afterwards served as a daytime correspondent for MSNBC.
Diane Dimond Books
Diane Dimond: Volume I
- Be Careful Who You Love: Inside the Michael Jackson Case
- Thinking Outside the Crime and Justice Box