Jeanine Pirro; Fox News, Husband, Children, Net Worth, Age, 2019

Publish date: 2024-06-15

Jeanine Pirro’s, age 68 anticipated show, Justice With Judge Jeanine did not air on the Fox News in 16th March 2019. It was just a week after the presenter made Islamophobic comments about a Muslim congresswoman on her show.

Jeanine Pirro is an American television host who was most recently a regular face on Fox News show, Justice with Judge Jeanine. She is a former judge in Westchester County, New York and the first female District Attorney of Westchester County.

Fox News Pulls The Show, Trump Defends Her

On the March 10 episode of Justice With Judge Jeanine, she questioned whether Ilhan Omar, the U.S. Representative for Minnesota’s 5th congressional district, was loyal to the United States as she wears a hijab.

Fox News pulled off the show replacing it with a recast of a Scandalous episode in its time slot. Well, American President Donald Trump is not happy with the decision.

Trump made his tweet supporting Jeanine and also its host Tucker Carlson, who is under pressure over offensive comments made on talk radio beginning in the mid-2000s. Fox News is yet to comment any further on the incident. She described Trump as “almost superhuman” in November 2019 and in late 2019, she believed that the Americans could say Merry Christmas again because of her country’s President.

Jeanine Pirro’s Bio; Parents, Education, Height

Jeanine Ferris Pirro was born on 2nd June 1951 in Elmira, New York, to Lebanese parents Nasser Ferris and Esther Ferris. Her father, Nasser was a mobile-home salesman, and her mother, Esther was a department-store model.

With the height of 5 feet 4 inches (1.63 m), Jeanine attended Notre Dame High School and interned in the Chemung County District Attorney’s office during that time. She later got graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University at Buffalo. She pursued her J.D. degree at Albany Law School of Union University at the age of 24 in 1975.

Her Career, Net Worth

Jeanine served as an assistant district attorney for Westchester County, New York joining in 1975. She was the first female to prosecute murder cases there. Later, in 1990, she became the first woman to serve as a Westchester County Court judge.

Jeanine Pirro association with the Fox News for more than a decade. (Picture: YouTube)

In 2008, she joined the CW Television Network and started her new show named Judge Jeanine Pirro. After joining the Fox News in 2006, she took the responsibility as a legal analyst, providing legal insight across the network’s programming. She started hosting Justice with Judge Jeanine on the network since 2011.

She got the fortune to be the board of directors of the cannabis company HeavenlyRx, which manufactures CBD products in July 2019. Jeanine’s career spans more than three decades, from which she has garnered the net worth of $12 Million.

Divorced With Husband, Children

Jeanine was married to Albert Pirro in 1975, after meeting him while in law school. The couple shares two children, a son named Alexander Pirro and a daughter named Christi Pirro.

Jeanine Pirro with her son Alexander Pirro oh her book party in 2018. (Picture: Jeanine’s Twitter)

Unfortunately, in 2000, her husband Albert was sentenced to 29 months in a minimum-security federal prison. He was accused of four counts of tax evasion, and 28 counts of filing a false tax return for hiding over $1 million in personal income as business expenses from 1988 to 1997. Jeanine and Albert were separated in 2007 and their divorce was finalized in 2013.

Some Interesting Facts About Jeanine Pirro

Jeanine officiated at the wedding of TV host Juliet Huddy and Doug Barrett in January 2009
She won the Daytime Emmy Award for her CW show, Judge Jeanine Pirro in 2011.
She is also an author of books such as To Punish and Protect: A DA’s Fight Against a System That Coddles Criminals, Clever Fox: A Dani Fox Novel and Liars, Leakers, and Liberals: The Case Against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy.