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Michael Wolff (born August 27, 1953) is an American journalist, as well as a columnist and contributor to USA Today, The Hollywood Reporter, and the UK edition of GQ.
- He’s been working in the media since the ’70s. The 64-year-old grew up in New Jersey, the son of an advertising executive father and a newspaper reporter mother.
- He’s no stranger to charges of stretching the truth. Wolff has contended with claims against his stories’ accuracy for years. The now-defunct media review publication Brill’s Content said 13 different subjects in his of his 1998 book “Burn Rate” disputed Wolff’s account of them and accused him of inventing or changing quotes: “And none of those quoted recalls Wolff taking notes or recording the discussions, some of which took place three years ago.”
- He resists traditional labels. Wolff has resisted the traditional journalist label as well as that of a media critic. A New Republic profile of Wolff said he’s uninterested in the working press and makes himself the center of the story by fixating on moguls and power players in media, tech or politics.
- He’s been a vocal critic of the media. Wolff has taken aim at everyone from Rupert Murdoch to Politico in his time as a media columnist, but he’s most recently fed into the narrative that the media “is obsessed with Trump,” and vice versa.
Oct 6, 2023 · 8 min. Michael Wolff is at it again. The best-selling author has cranked out another book — “ The Fall: The End of Fox News and the Murdoch Dynasty ” — and with it, another round of...
Sep 12, 2021 · Why Our Monsters Talk to Michael Wolff In his new book, the author of “Fire and Fury” continues his specialty: teasing out stories from men in power. Writer at work: Michael Wolff does not...
- Trump called supporters ‘the great unwashed’ In mid-December 2020, “a little more than three weeks before rioters and revelers stormed the Capitol”, a group of “several thousand Trump fans and fanatics gathered in Washington, D.C”, an extract of the book published by New York magazine says.
- Democrats’, ‘Big Tech’ and ‘the media’ rigged the election. During his interview with Wolff at Mar-a-Lago, Trump again espoused the view – without providing any evidence – that the election that saw him lose the White House to Joe Biden was rigged.
- He was warned against marching on the Capitol. According to the New York magazine extract, Trump had a tense stand-off with his chief of staff Mark Meadows after telling the crowd that would go on to storm the Capitol: “We’re going to walk down [to the Capitol to protest] – and I’ll be there with you.”
- Being president meant dealing with ‘absolute scum and treachery’ Asked by Wolff if he held any “regrets” about his time as president, Trump told the journalist “I gave up this life”, apparently referring to his life at Mar-a-Lago, “for a life dealing with fine people but also absolute scum and treachery and fake witch-hunts”.
Sep 25, 2023 · Wolff offers his typically no-holds-barred look at the powerful personalities at the top of the network. Review by Justin Peters. September 25, 2023 at 6:38 p.m. EDT. “The Fall” details the...
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Sep 19, 2023 · Fire and Fury, the 2018 book by American journalist Michael Wolff, was always destined to become a New York Times number one bestseller, revealing one hair-raising anecdote after another from...
