[69] They were married a year later, on April 12, 1986,[70] and have two daughters, Isabella and Christina. [citation needed] The two traveled to music festivals around the world for the BBC. "[18], Huffington, of Greek background, opposed the NATO intervention in Serbia during the Yugoslav Wars[27] and in 2000, she instigated the "Shadow Conventions",[clarification needed] which appeared at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia and the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles at Patriotic Hall. On Monday, Christina also posted about her exciting news by sharing the same picture on her own Instagram account. [20], In 1971, Huffington appeared in an edition of Face the Music along with Bernard Levin. The 70-year-old entrepreneur was born in Athens, Greece. Christina, 24, is the daughter of Huffington Post founder Arianna and … In 1994, he narrowly lost the race for the U.S. Senate seat in California to incumbent Dianne Feinstein. DAUGHTER : Isabella Diana Huffington Father: Michael Huffington. If my daughters, and women of all ages, are to take their rightful place in society, they must become fearless. [22], From March to April 1980, Huffington joined Bob Langley as the co-host of BBC1's late-night talk and entertainment show Saturday Night at the Mill, appearing in just 5 editions before being dropped from the program. Both Sides Now was hosted by former Air America Radio president and HuffPost blogger Mark J. She teamed up with liberal comedian Al Franken as the conservative half of "Strange Bedfellows"[25] during Comedy Central's coverage of the 1996 U.S. presidential election. The two would proceed to have a high-profile clash during the election's debate, during which both candidates were rebuked for making personal attacks. Arianna Huffington appeared with her daughter Christina on the Today show Wednesday as the 24-year-old opened up about getting sober after her seven-year "un-glamorous" addiction to cocaine. She's been named one of the most powerful women in … ', Love: The Huffington Post CEO and founder Arianna Huffington revealed her daughter Christina, 29, was engaged to her longtime boyfriend, Paul Needham, Happy news: Huffington posted the news on her Instagram Monday and included several shots of her daughter with her new fiance, Supportive mom: In the sweet post, Huffington called her eldest daughter her 'first treasure', as she praised Paul for being 'the most wonderful man'. She admitted the divorce between her media mogul mother and her former congressman father, Michael Huffington, at the age of eight years old disrupted her world — leaving both her and her younger sister, Isabella, devastated. Arianna Huffington has been confounding expectations ever since she arrived in London from Greece as a 16-year-old with her mother and sister, saw a … 12 in Forbes first-ever list of the Most Influential Women In Media. Her first foray onto the internet was a website called Resignation.com, which called for the resignation of President Bill Clinton and was a rallying place for conservatives opposing Clinton. Oney, Steve (October 2004) "The Many Faces of Arianna. All loved up! Polls showed that only about 2 percent of California voters planned to vote for her at the time of her withdrawal. [61], Huffington was accused of plagiarism for copying material for her book Maria Callas (1981); the claims were settled out of court in 1981, with Callas' biographer Gerald Fitzgerald being paid "in the low five figures". Michael Huffington. "[18] In an April 1998 profile in The New Yorker, Margaret Talbot wrote, "Most recently, she has cast herself as a kind of Republican Spice Girl – an endearingly ditzy right wing gal-about-town who is a guilty pleasure for people who know better."