Victoria Penelope Jane Ward was born on 3 July 1969. She is the daughter of Simon Charles Vivian Ward and Myrtle Jillian Eileen East. She married Matthew William Monteith Doull on 15 July 1995. From 15 July 1995, her married name became Doull. http://www.thepeerage.com/p40211.htm#i402104
Biography
Vicky Ward (Victoria Penelope Jane Ward) is a British-born author, investigative journalist, columnist and television commentator. Ward is a magazine editor-at-large and former newspaper editor. She has been living in New York City since 1997 and is a U.S. citizen. Ward was born on 3 July 1969 in Chelmsford, England. She is 49 years old as of 2018.
After moving to the U.S., Ward became a columnist and feature writer for Britain’s The Independent newspaper. In New York City, she did News and featured as an Editor of the New York Post (1999-2001) and Tina Brown’s executive editor at Talk (2000-2001). She was also a contributing editor to Vanity Fair (2001-2012) as well as a columnist for the London Evening Standard (2007-2011). Her articles on Vanity Fair covered a wide array of subject matter: politics, finance, art, and culture and society. Among other things, she wrote about Hewlett Packard, Morgan Stanley, Bruce Wasserstein, a failed coup in Africa, Kate Middleton, Valerie Plame, counter-terrorist czar Dick Clarke, Brooke Astor, Veronica Hearst, the Guggenheim, the Getty, Phillips de Pury Luxembourg, St Barths, Vivendi, Jeffrey Epstein, Washington interns, the Fairfield Greenwich hedge fund and Bernie Madoff. Ward was appointed Editor at large for HuffPost and Huffington Post Highline in July 2017, their long-form magazine. Latest HuffPost exclusives have included interviews with Blackwater’s Erik Prince, Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen, and Anthony Scaramucci on the White House and why he was fired. For the Huffington Post Highline, She recently wrote about Vice President Mike Pence’s Chief of Staff, Nick Ayers and Robert and Rebekah Mercer’s influence in the 2016 election. Charlie Rose later interviewed Ward on this piece.
Ward is also an Editor at large at Town & Country magazine, where she writes about culture. Her article pieces have included an article on the late, seminal Russian art collector Sergei Shchukin, Frank Gehry’s first-ever sailboat design, a $2 billion fraud in the modern art world and the Knoedler art trial. Ward has contributed to, among others, the Financial Times, The New York Times, The London Times and Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, the UK Spectator Magazine, British Vogue, US Harpers Bazaar and Porter. Ward has also had on-air contracts with CNBC and Bloomberg TV. Ward appears regularly on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. In her last role, Ward wrote investigative long-form articles for Esquire including a piece in October 2016 on Jared Kushner. In December 2016 ward profiled the Russian-born cyber-terrorism expert Dmitri Alperovitch.
Ward is the author of two best-selling books, the New York Times bestseller, The Devil’s Casino: Friendship, Betrayal and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers (Wiley, 2010) and The Liar’s Ball: The Extraordinary Saga of How one Building Broke the World’s Toughest Tycoons (Wiley, 2014). The Liar’s Ball is being developed as a possible feature film by J.C. Chandor and A24 Productions. Her latest book is Kushner, Inc.: Greed. Ambition. Corruption. The Extraordinary Story of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump (St. Martin’s Press, 2019).
