In
her 10 years as a reporter, Tina Dirmann has covered some of the nation's biggest
news stories, interviewing notorious criminals and profiling A-list celebrities.
She is a graduate of UCLA and worked for The San Bernardino County Sun
and Riverside County's The Press Enterprise before joining the staff
of The Los Angeles Times. At The Times, she covered crime,
courts, county politics and worked as a general assignment reporter on the state
desk. Before leaving The Times, Dirmann earned a spot among a small
team of reporters named as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of
the 2000 Alaska Airline crash, which killed 88 people. In recent years, Dirmann
switched gears from crime news to entertainment reporting, working as a staff
reporter for Us Weekly before becoming Deputy Bureau Chief for Star
Magazine. She has also served as a frequent on-air spokesperson for both
magazines, appearing on shows such as MSNBC, Extra, Good
Day LA, CNN, A Current Affair, Inside Edition, Fox
News, and a variety of E! network programming. In October 2005, she released
her first book for St. Martins Press, Such Good Boys, which chronicled
the beheading of a California woman at the hands of her sons. The book is currently
being sold in bookstores nationwide. Ms. Dirmann's second true
crime novel, Vanished at Sea, also for St. Martins Press, was released January '08. Presently, Ms. Dirmann is a special correspondent for E!, a television commentator and a freelance writer for outlets including USA Today and 944 Magazine. She is also working on her third book.
Former co-host for E! Entertainment's Hollywood talk show Planet
Gossip
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