Mark Ebner

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.

^ a b "Birth reference for Mark Charles Ebner". FamilySearch.org. Retrieved May 31, 2017.
^ "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. Archived from the original on August 22, 2016. Retrieved August 7, 2016.