American Heiress (Toobin)

Author Bio
• Birth—May 21, 1960
• Where—New York City, New York, USA
• Education—B.A., J.D., Harvard University
• Awards—Emmy Award; J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize
• Currently—lives in New York City, New York


Jeffrey Ross Toobin is an American lawyer, author, and senior legal analyst for CNN and a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine. He was born in New York City, the son of former ABC News and CBS News correspondent Marlene Sanders, and news broadcasting producer Jerome Toobin. His mother's family was of a relatively secular Jewish background.

Education
In 1982, Toobin graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with a BA in classics. In 1986, he graduated from Harvard Law School, again magna cum laude, with a JD. He also served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review. While a law student, Toobin began freelancing for The New Republic.

Legal work
 After law school, Tobin went on to clerk to a federal judge. Later during the Iran-Contra affair and Oliver North's criminal trial, Toobin worked as an associate counsel to Independent Counsel Lawrence Edward Walsh who was appointed to investigate and try the case.

Toobin wrote a book about his work with Walsh on the Oliver North case. According to journalist Michael Isikoff, he was caught "having absconded with large loads of classified and grand-jury related documents" from Walsh's office. Toobin, however, disputed the assertion of impropriety and went to court to affirm his right to publish. Judge John Keenan of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York wrote vindicated the rights of Toobin and his publisher to release his book, which they did in 1991. An appeal for the case was dismissed.

Having objected to Toobin's decision take the documents, Walsh later wrote that he "could understand a young lawyer wanting to keep copies of his own work, but not copying material from the general files or the personal files of others."

After leaving the Independent Counsel, Toobin went to work for the U.S. Attorney’s office in Brooklyn. Three years later he left the DA's office, deciding to abandon the practice of law altogether.

Media
In 1993 Toobin joined The New Yorker as a staff writer, a position he occupies still. In 1994, he broke the story in the magazine that the O. J. Simpson legal team planned to play "the race card" by accusing Mark Fuhrman of planting evidence.

Also in 1994, Toobin became a television legal analyst for ABC. He joined CNN in 2002 as a senior legal analyst—one year later securing the first interview with Martha Stewart about the insider trading charges brought against her. He remains with CNN today.

Toobin has provided broadcast legal analysis on many high-profile cases, including Michael Jackson's 2005 child molestation trial, the O.J. Simpson civil case, and the Starr investigation of President Clinton. He received a 2000 Emmy Award for his coverage of the Elian Gonzalez custody saga.

Books
1991 - Opening arguments: A Young Lawyer's First Case, United States v. Oliver North
1997 - The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson*
1999 - A vast conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal that Nearly Brought Down a President
2001 - Too close to Call: The Thirty-six-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election
2007 - The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court (J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize)
2012 - The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court
2016 - American heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst

Personal life
In 1986, Toobin married Amy Bennett McIntosh. The couple met in college while they worked at the Harvard Crimson. She is a 1980 Harvard graduate, holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, and has held executive positions at Verizon and Zagat Survey. They have two children.

Toobin had a long-term extramarital affair with Casey Greenfield, daughter of American television journalist and author Jeff Greenfield. Toobin was eventually confirmed as the father of Casey's child (b. March 2009). Greenfield has sole custody. (Adapted from Wikipedia. Retrieved 9/27/2016.)

* The Run of His Life became the basis for the FX miniseries, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story (2016), starring Cuba Gooding Jr.