Rona Barrett (born Rona Burstein; October 8, 1936) is a retired American TV News Correspondent, Interviewer,gossip columnist and businesswoman. She runs the Rona Barrett Foundation, a non-profit organization in Santa Ynez, California, dedicated to the aid and support of senior citizens in need.
Early life and career
Barrett was born on October 8, 1936, into a Jewish family in New York City.[1][2] As a teenager, she overcame a degenerative hip condition that made walking extremely difficult, and organized fan clubs for popular singers she admired, such as Eddie Fisher and Steve Lawrence.[3] She became a gossip columnist for the Bell-McClure Syndicate in 1957, and soon went to work for Bob Marcucci, the manager for teen idols Frankie Avalon and Fabian.
In 1966, she began broadcasting Hollywood gossip on the