Anne Sinclair

Anne Sinclair born AnneÉlise Schwartz 15 July 1948 is a FrenchAmerican television and radio interviewer She hosted one of the most popular political shows for more than thirteen years on TF1 the largest European private TV channel She is heiress to much of the fortune of her maternal grandfather art dealer Paul Rosenberg She covered the 2008 US presidential campaign for the French Sunday newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche and the French TV channel Canal She married French politician Dominique StraussKahn in 1991 and divorced him in 2013 in the aftermath of the New York v StraussKahn case She was portrayed in the 2014 feature film Welcome to New York AnneElise Schwartz was born 15 July 1948 in New York City to JosephRobert Schwartz changed to Sinclair in 1949 and Micheline Nanette Rosenberg Via her mother she is the maternal granddaughter of Paul Rosenberg one of Frances and later New Yorks biggest art dealers Both of her parents were Frenchborn Jews who had married prewar and who with Paul Rosenberg and his wife had fled from the Nazi persecution of Jews after the 1940 Nazi invasion of France A few years after her birth the family returned to France She attended the Cours Hattemer a private school She majored in politics at Sciences Po and in law at the University of Paris Sinclairs first radio hosting job was at Europe 1 one of the leading nationwide radio networks Between 1984 and 1997 she hosted 77 a weekly Sunday evening news and political show on TF1 that had one of the largest audiences in France She became one of the countrys best known journalists and conducted more than five hundred interviews over the course of the shows thirteenyear run Every Sunday at 7 pm Sinclair hosted a onehour interview with a leading French or international personality She interviewed French presidents François Mitterrand and Nicolas Sarkozy as well as US president Bill Clinton Mikhail Gorbachev Shimon Peres Felipe González German chancellors Helmut Kohl and Gerhard Schröder King Hassan II of Morocco Hillary Clinton the UN Secretary General in New York during the first gulf war and Prince Charles Although primarily focused on politics her show also included celebrities Madonna Sharon Stone Paul McCartney Woody Allen and George Soros She conducted interviews with French cultural figures such as Johnny Hallyday Alain Delon Yves Montand Simone Signoret BernardHenri Lévy and Elie Wiesel Sinclair won three Sept dOrs the French equivalent of the Emmy Awards In 1997 she chose to leave the show to avoid conflict of interest when her husband Dominique StraussKahn became French finance minister She then created an Internet subsidiary company for her former employer TF1 and ran it for four years before returning to journalism In 2003 she launched a cultural radio programme called Libre Cours Free Rein on France Inter the French equivalent of NPR She also wrote bestsellers on politics Deux ou trois choses que je sais deux Grasset 1997 and Caméra Subjective Grasset 2003 Source Article Anne Sinclair from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30