



Today, I weigh everything on a moral compass. There’s a lot of nuance that goes into a biography that is bigger than whether or not something is true. There has to be and eye toward understanding interpretation. I’ve been through enough in my lifetime to realize there has to be more of a standard in biography than just the truth. When I was a kid, my standard was very simple: If it was true, I put it in my book. I think as you get older as a writer, your standards change.

In a 2015 interview with Gawker, Taraborrelli described his evolution as a writer: He also regularly appears on television as an entertainment news reporter on programs such as Entertainment Tonight, Good Morning America, Today and CBS This Morning. Taraborrelli is known for biographies of contemporary entertainers and political figures such as Frank Sinatra, Diana Ross, Marilyn Monroe, Michael Jackson, Madonna, the Kennedy family, the Hilton family, and Beyoncé. Prior to his book-writing career, he was a magazine journalist and editor-in-chief of Soul magazine, the black entertainment title. John Randall Anthony Taraborrelli is an American journalist and celebrity biographer. 'The Kennedy Heirs, 'Jackie, Janet & Lee'
