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Arianna Huffington (née Stasinopoúlou; born , July 15, 1950) is a Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and occasional actress. She is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of ''The Huffington Post''. She was a popular conservative commentator in the mid-1990s, after which, in the 1990s, she became a liberal. She is the former spouse of former Republican congressman Michael Huffington. In 2003, she ran as an independent candidate for Governor in the California recall election. In 2009, Huffington was named as number 12 in ''Forbes's' first-ever list of the Most Influential Women In Media. She has also moved up to number 42 in ''The Guardian''s Top 100 in Media List. As of 2014, she is listed as the 52nd most powerful woman in the world by ''Forbes''. In 2011, AOL acquired ''The Huffington Post'' for US$315 million and made Huffington President and Editress-in-Chief of The Huffington Post Media Group, which included ''The Huffington Post'' and then-existing AOL properties such as AOL Music, Engadget, Patch Media, and StyleList. ==Early life== Huffington was born Ariadnē-Anna Stasinopoúlou () in Athens, Greece, the daughter of Konstantinos (a journalist and management consultant) and Elli (née Georgiadi) Stasinopoulou, and is the sister of Agapi (an author, speaker and performer). She moved to the United Kingdom at the age of 16, and studied economics at Girton College, Cambridge, where she was the first foreign, and third female〔Talbot, Margaret(April 13, 1998) (Politics of Fame." ) ''New Yorker.'' page 40-47.〕 President of the Cambridge Union.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=April 4, 2011 )〕 In 1971, she appeared in an edition of ''Face the Music'' along with Bernard Levin. A relationship developed, of which she wrote, after his death: "He wasn't just the big love of my life, he was a mentor as a writer and a role model as a thinker."〔Stassinopoulos-Huffington, Arianna. ("The Odd Couple", ) ''The Sunday Times'', August 15, 2004, accessed June 24, 2011〕 Huffington began writing books in the 1970s, with editorial help from Levin. The two traveled to music festivals around the world for the BBC. They spent summers touring three-star restaurants in France. At the age of 30, she remained deeply in love with him but longed to have children; Levin never wanted to marry or have children. Huffington concluded that she must break away, and moved to New York in 1980.〔 In 1979, she joined Bob Langley as the co-host of BBC1's late night talk and entertainment show ''Saturday Night At The Mill'', appearing in 12 editions before being dropped from the programme.〔http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0344715/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arianna Huffington」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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