Arianna Huffington, Larry Beinhart and Paul Krassner on Political Satire (2/4) (1998)

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Huffington was born Arianna Stassinopoulou (Αριάννα Στασινόπουλου) in Athens, Greece, the daughter of Konstantinos (a journalist and management consultant) and Elli (née Georgiadi) Stassinopoulou, and is the sister of Agapi (an author, speaker and performer). She moved to England at the age of 16 and attended Girton College at Cambridge University where in 1971, she was President of the Cambridge Union Society, the third woman to hold the position, and graduated with a BA (later to become an MA in accordance with Cambridge's practice) in economics in 1972.

After graduation, she moved to London and lived with the journalist and broadcaster Bernard Levin, whom she had met while the two were panelists on the TV show Face the Music. In 1980, she left Levin and moved to the United States, after he refused to marry her. After Levin's death in 2004, she called him "the big love of my life, [...] a mentor as a writer, and a role model as a thinker." During these years and around the time of her involvement with John-Roger's religious group, she was involved with Democratic politician and then-governor (currently Attorney General) of California, Jerry Brown.

She met oil millionaire Michael Huffington, a family friend of the Bushes, at a 1985 party hosted by Anne Geddes in San Francisco. The couple were married in 1986 at a wedding paid for by Geddes, who had declared that she needed to find Arianna a husband. They moved to Washington, D.C., when he was appointed to serve as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Negotiations Policy. They later established residency in Santa Barbara, California, in order for him to run in 1992 as a Republican for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, which he won by a significant margin. He was a political conservative on most issues. Arianna campaigned for her husband, courting religious conservatives, arguing for smaller government and a reduction in welfare. In 1994, he narrowly lost the race for the U.S. Senate seat from California to incumbent Dianne Feinstein.

The couple divorced in 1997, and in 1998 Michael Huffington revealed that he was bisexual. The financial terms of their divorce agreement remain undisclosed.

In the late 1980s, Huffington wrote several articles for National Review. In 1981, she wrote a biography of Maria Callas, Maria Callas — The Woman Behind the Legend, and in 1989, a biography of Pablo Picasso, Picasso: Creator and Destroyer.

Huffington rose to national prominence during her husband's unsuccessful Senate bid in 1994. She became known as a reliable supporter of conservative causes such as Newt Gingrich's "Republican Revolution" and Bob Dole's 1996 candidacy for president. She teamed up with liberal comedian Al Franken as the conservative half of "Strange Bedfellows" during Comedy Central's coverage of the 1996 U.S. presidential election. For her work, she and the writing team of Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher were nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Variety or Music Program. She has also made a few forays into acting with roles on shows such as Roseanne, The L Word, Help Me Help You, and the film EdTV.

Huffington's politics began to shift back toward the left in the late 1990s. During the Yugoslav Wars, Huffington opposed United States intervention in the crisis. In 2000, she instigated the 'Shadow Conventions', which appeared at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia and the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles.

Huffington heads The Detroit Project, a public interest group lobbying automakers to start producing cars running on alternative fuels. The project's 2003 TV ads, which equated driving sport utility vehicles to funding terrorism, proved to be particularly controversial, with some stations refusing to run them.

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[babyshambler]

A soft on! Ha.

[Rsett10]

And then she became a liberal so she could get rich with her media ventures! She's a fake!

[mecagoenboba]

She's awesome in The Cleveland Show. She plays the woman bear, whose name is also Arianna. Now, every time I see her, I can't help myself but to imagine her as the bear!

[colinjohnstevenson]

@ninjatoothpaste nothing besides arianna's hair :p and hitchens's... :(

[ninjatoothpaste]

Nothing has changed politically since 1998 by the looks of things, someone correct me if I'm wrong :(

[gamerunknown]

Poor Abbie Hoffman :(