Christiane Amanpour Net Worth

Christiane Amanpour is a British-Iranian journalist and television host who has an estimated net worth of $18 million according to Celebrity Net Worth.

Christiane Amanpour Salary

Christiane Amanpour receives a respectable wage. Her annual salary at CNN is estimated to be $5 million.

Christiane Amanpour Bio

Christiane Maria Heideh Amanpour is a British-Iranian journalist and television host. Amanpour is the Chief International Anchor for CNN and host of CNN International’s nightly interview program Amanpour. She is also the host of Amanpour & Company on PBS.

Christiane Amanpour Age

Christiane was born in 12 January 1958 the West London suburb of Ealing,UK. As of 2023 she is 65 years old.

Christiane Amanpour Family

Mohammad Taghi and Patricia Anne Amanpour’ are Christiane parents. Her father was from Tehran and was Iranian. Amanpour was brought up in Tehran until he was 11 years old. Her mother was a Roman Catholic and her father was a Shi’ite Muslim.

Christiane Amanpour Education| Early Life

When she was 11 years old, her parents sent her to a boarding school in England after she finished the more important portion of her primary school education in Iran. She attended the all-girls Holy Cross Convent in Chalfont Saint Peter, Buckinghamshire, before transferring to the Roman Catholic New Hall School in Chelmsford, Essex, when she was 16 years old. Shortly after the Islamic Revolution started, Christiane and her family left for England.

She emphasized that despite the Iran-Iraq War, they were choosing to return to England rather than being forced to leave the country. The family ultimately decided to stay in England because it was difficult for them to go back to Iran.
Amanpour relocated to the United States after leaving New Hall to pursue a career in journalism at the University of Rhode Island. She spent her time there working for WBRU-FM in Providence, Rhode Island, in the news division. She was an electronic graphics designer for the Providence NBC affiliate WJAR. Amanpour earned a BA in journalism from the university in 1983 and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and the summa cum laude honor society.

Christiane Amanpour Spouse

James Rubin, a former US Assistant Secretary of State under the Clinton administration and Christiane Amanpour married from 1998 to 2018. In 2000, they welcomed a son, Darius John Rubin. In 2013, the family resided in New York City before moving permanently to London.
The couple made their divorce announcement in July 2018.

General Nader Jahanbani, who oversaw the Imperial Iranian Air Force for 20 years before being killed by Islamic revolutionaries in 1979, is related to Amanpour by marriage.

Christiane Amanpour Career

She was given a significant assignment to cover the Iran-Iraq War before being sent to Eastern Europe to cover the fall of European communism. She was given the responsibility of working in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1989, where she covered the revolutions that were happening in Eastern Europe at the time. Amanpour kept moving up the ladder and in 1990 was hired as a correspondent by CNN’s New York bureau. She received widespread attention for her coverage of the Persian Gulf War, which is credited with elevating CNN’s news coverage to a new level. During the Gulf and Bosnian wars, Amanpour developed a reputation for being fearless, earning her Then, she provided updates from the Bosnian War and other significant conflict areas.

She covered the Persian Gulf War, the Bosnian War, and numerous other international conflicts for “60 Minutes” from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s.

Amanpour served as CNN’s chief international correspondent from 1992 to 2010, in addition to hosting her own daily CNN interview program, “Amanpour,” from 2009 to 2010. She covered significant crises from the United States during Hurricane Katrina as well as other conflict hotspots around the world, such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Rwanda, and many others. Additionally, she has landed interviews with significant world leaders. After the 9/11 attacks, Amanpour was the first international reporter to speak with Tony Blair, the British prime minister.

Amanpour filed five in-depth international reports as a special contributor for “60 Minutes” creator Don Hewitt between 1996 and 2005; this work earned her a Peabody Award in 1998. Her contract was terminated because Jeff Fager, Hewitt’s replacement, did not appreciate her reporting.