Guwahati: Emmy award-winning journalist and celebrity interviewer, Barbara Walters breathed her last at the age of 93.
Walters reportedly spoke with the most well-known people in politics and entertainment, including Jimmy Carter, Anwar Sadat, and Monica Lewinsky, according to the US news source Variety.
She was once the highest-paid television journalist, making up to $12 million annually at ABC, where she worked from 1976 until May 2014, when she retired from both her hit show “The View” and ABC News. Prior to that, she worked for NBC’s “Today” show for 12 years.
For her work on “The View,” Walters got numerous Daytime Emmy nominations for best talk show host, winning in 2003 and 2009, as well as numerous Primetime Emmy nods for her specials, winning in 1983. She also earned a News and Documentary Emmy for her work at ABC in covering the turn of the millennium, according to Variety. She also won a Daytime Emmy in 1975 for “Today.”
On September 25, 1929, Barbara Jill Walters was born in Boston. Lou Walters, her father, owned nightclubs. She attended the Fieldston School and Birch Wathen Schools in New York as well as Miami Beach High School. According to Variety, she earned a B.A. in English from Sarah Lawrence College.
Walters was married three times: first to TV producer Merv Adelson, whom she divorced for the second time in 1992; second to Lee Gubers, with whom she adopted a daughter named Jacqueline; and third to Bob Katz, whom she wed in 1955.