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Not to be confused with Vicki Ward or Victoria Ward.

Vicky Ward
Ward in 2010
Born
Victoria Penelope Jane Ward

(1969-07-03) 3 July 1969 (age 56)
Chelmsford, England
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materTrinity Hall, Cambridge
Occupation(s)Investigative journalist
author
columnist
editor
commentator
EmployerCNN
Spouse
Matthew Doull
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(m. 1995; div. 2010)​
Children2

Victoria Penelope Jane Ward (born 3 July 1969) is a British-born American author, investigative journalist, editor, and television commentator. She was a Senior Reporter at CNN and a former magazine and newspaper editor who has featured in The New York Times Best Seller list.

Early life and education

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Ward was born Victoria Penelope Jane Ward on 3 July 1969,[1] the daughter of Simon Charles Ward,[2] and Jillian Ward (née East).[3] Ward attended Benenden School and later earned a BA and MA in English literature from Trinity Hall, Cambridge.[4]

Journalism career

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After graduation, Ward became a columnist and feature writer for The Independent. In 1997, Ward moved to New York City, where she became the news features editor of the New York Post and as Tina Brown's executive editor at Talk.[citation needed]

Ward later worked as a contributing editor to Vanity Fair as well as a columnist for the London Evening Standard. In 2010, she published her first book, The Devil's Casino, on the downfall of Lehman Brothers.[5]

As a journalist, Ward has contributed to a number of publications including the Financial Times, The New York Times, Esquire, the London Times, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, the UK Spectator magazine, British Vogue, US Harper's Bazaar and Porter.[citation needed]

In July 2017, Ward became editor-at-large for HuffPost and Huffington Post Highline,[6] where she wrote features on individuals including Erik Prince, Michael Cohen, Anthony Scaramucci, among others.[7][8]

In 2019, Ward said her 2003 profile of Jeffrey Epstein in Vanity Fair had included on-the-record accounts of Annie and Maria Farmer (who filed the earliest known criminal complaints about Epstein), but that they were later stricken from Ward's article after Epstein pressured the magazine's editor Graydon Carter.[9][10] While researching Epstein, Ward was pregnant with twins and reported that she felt compelled to hire security protection for their neonatal intensive care unit after Epstein had threatened their wellbeing.[11][12][13] That year, Ward published Kushner, Inc., about Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump.[14]

In July 2019, Ward was named Senior Reporter at CNN.[15] Ward later became editor-at-large at Town & Country magazine.[citation needed] In June 2020, Ward joined the Council on Foreign Relations.[16] In September 2023, Ward was named a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford. [17]

In 2025, Ward and James Patterson published "The Idaho Four: An American Tragedy".[18] The pair were later were announced as collaborators on an upcoming book about Luigi Malone.[19]

Personal life

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Ward married Matthew Doull in 1995.[20] Ward and Doull later divorced. Ward became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2017.[4]

In 2011, a portrait of Ward, taken by photographer Jason Bell, was exhibited in the British National Portrait Gallery as part of Bell's series "An Englishman in New York".[21]

Bibliography

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  • 2010 The Devil's Casino: Friendship, Betrayal and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers, Wiley, ISBN 978-0470540862
  • 2014 The Liar's Ball: The Extraordinary Saga of How one Building Broke the World's Toughest Tycoons, Wiley, ISBN 978-1118295311
  • 2019 Kushner, Inc.: Greed. Ambition. Corruption. The Extraordinary Story of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, St. Martin's Press, New York, ISBN 978-1250185952
  • 2025 "The Idaho Four: An American Tragedy", co-authored with James Patterson, Little, Brown and Company[18]

References

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  1. ^ "Vicky Ward - National Portrait Gallery". npg.org.uk. Archived from the original on 21 June 2020. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
  2. ^ Hampson, Sarah (19 April 2010). "Vicky Ward: Wall Street tattler". The Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on 11 November 2020. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
  3. ^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage: 107th Edition volume 1, page 1360
  4. ^ a b "Vicky Ward - Senior Reporter". CNN Profiles. Archived from the original on 19 February 2020. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
  5. ^ "Legends of the Fall (Published 2010)". 25 June 2010. Retrieved 15 August 2025.
  6. ^ Ward, Vicky (31 August 2017). "Blackwater's Erik Prince On How He Got Into The White House". HuffPost. Archived from the original on 15 February 2020. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
  7. ^ Ward, Vicky (15 March 2018). "Mike Pence's Man In The Swamp". Highline. HuffPost. Archived from the original on 5 April 2019. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
  8. ^ "Vicky Ward", Charlie Rose, 17 March 2017, archived from the original on 24 March 2019, retrieved 7 January 2019
  9. ^ Tracy, Marc (9 July 2019). "Ex-Vanity Fair Writer Says Editor Stopped Her From Exposing Epstein in '03". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 13 February 2020. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
  10. ^ Folkenflik, David (22 August 2019). "Why 'Vanity Fair' Story Left Out Abuse Allegations Against Epstein". NPR. Archived from the original on 30 November 2019. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
  11. ^ Pilkington, Ed (13 July 2019). "Jeffrey Epstein: how US media – with one star exception – whitewashed the story". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 19 June 2024. Retrieved 17 February 2020.
  12. ^ "Jeffrey Epstein, a Billionaire Friend of Presidents Trump & Clinton, Arrested for Sex Trafficking". Democracy Now!. Archived from the original on 19 June 2024. Retrieved 17 February 2020.
  13. ^ Ward, Vicky (7 January 2015). "I Tried to Warn You About Sleazy Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein in 2003". The Daily Beast. Archived from the original on 19 June 2024. Retrieved 17 February 2020.
  14. ^ Green, Lloyd (24 March 2019). "Kushner, Inc review: Jared, Ivanka Trump and the rise of the American kakistocracy". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 15 August 2025.
  15. ^ Katz, A. J. (29 July 2019). "HuffPost Editor-at-Large Vicky Ward Is Joining CNN as Senior Reporter". TVNewser. Adweek. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
  16. ^ "Council on Foreign Relations". Council on Foreign Relations. Archived from the original on 19 April 2017. Retrieved 18 March 2021.
  17. ^ "Visiting Fellows | Saïd Business School". www.sbs.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 3 September 2023. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
  18. ^ a b "Video James Patterson and Vicky Ward discuss new book". ABC News. Retrieved 15 August 2025.
  19. ^ Creamer, Ella (7 August 2025). "James Patterson to write book about Luigi Mangione". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 15 August 2025.
  20. ^ "Vicky Ward and Matthew Doull's wedding". Tatler. 1 October 1995. Archived from the original on 22 June 2020. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
  21. ^ "An Englishman in New York". The Guardian. 14 August 2010. Archived from the original on 24 March 2019. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
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