Phoebe Eaton

Phoebe Eaton is a multi-award-winning American investigative journalist, playwright, and screenwriter. For The New York Times Magazine, New York (magazine), and The Hollywood Reporter, she has covered business, crime, politics, and style. Feminist icon Gloria Steinem has publicly deemed her 'a talented writer.' She is an organized-crime expert and the author of In the Thrall of the Mountain King: The Secret History of El Chapo, the World's Most Notorious Narco. She has won several awards including the Newswomen’s Club of New York Front Page Award (2020) and Mexico's National Journalism Award (2021) for exclusively locating and interviewing the family of Sinaloa cartel boss El Chapo during the drug lord's New York City trial. Her 2019 book on the subject, In the Thrall of the Mountain King:The Secret History of El Chapo, the World's Most Notorious Narco, was excerpted by the New York Post. Eaton has also published articles in Air Mail (magazine), The Daily Beast, Vanity Fair (magazine), and Harper's Bazaar. She has appeared on Dateline NBC, Fox’s Good Day New York, Entertainment Tonight, Fox Nation, and Court TV/TruTV. Quotes Mr. Weiner grabbed for a pair of spectacles that looked a little like [his mentor] Chuck Schumer’s. These were his driving glasses—even when he wasn’t driving. His press secretary seemed nervous about what Mr. Weiner might say in the car: Mr. Weiner is the Dale Earnhardt of back-seat drivers…“My problem is, I generally know how to get there,” Mr. Weiner explained. “It’s part of the ethos of living in New York—figuring out how to do things in a better way.” Mr. Weiner likes to describe the Mayor as a weak sister, rolling over for the Republicans when he’s not kissing up with donations. Whenever he sees the Mayor, Mr. Weiner said, it’s all reasonably cordial. After all, nothing’s personal in politics. “I think he likes me,” Mr. Weiner ventured. (The Mayor does not, say his aides.) 2005-03-07 Anthony Weiner, in Mayoral Run, Models on Koch The New York Observer https://observer.com/2005/03/anthony-weiner-in-mayoral-run-models-on-koch/ When it comes to siblings, Hollywood has a quirky history of power brothers, from such behind-the-desk deal-makers as the Warners, the Cohns, and the Selznicks to forces behind the camera: the Coens, the Safdies, the Sylberts, and the Russos. And then there’s Harvey and Bob Weinstein. Prison’s been hard on Harvey [Weinstein] …He’s now living as his assistants once did, in the clutches of a perverse and petty system, overseen by guards who demand utter obeisance, deference, and subjection. Imagine one of the world’s foremost consumers of the luxury-hotel suite and capacious bathroom trying to survive an infirmary dormitory with no-seat toilets. In court, his people had to shut off his iPhone for him; he’d never quite mastered the mechanics. But now there’s no phone—save the one he’s allowed to access for only an hour a day as, maintaining his innocence, he orchestrates his appeal from a room he can use only when no one’s there. 2020-06-13 The Making of a Predator: Part I Air Mail https://airmail.news/issues/2020-6-13/the-making-of-a-predator Last year, Donald [Trump] (married to ex-model Melania Knauss and father of a baby boy named Barron) announced on The View that if he weren't Ivanka's father, maybe he'd be dating her. "I think it's the human condition to be frequently embarrassed by your parents," Ivanka says, generally speaking. Lately, friends imagine they hear Donald [Trump]'s intonations in Ivanka's surprisingly sexy voice, a voice that sounds like she gargles with Cristal. The inane locutions of her generation — those "like"s and "you know"s — have been almost banished from conversation in favor of the more lawyerly "if you will" and other such Donald-like tropes….Ivanka could tell you about the Putzmeister pump throwing concrete a thousand vertical feet atop what stands to be the tallest residential building in the world, a site she's currently supervising in Chicago and one of 33 construction sites all over the globe. Instead, she is in the living room of her Park Avenue pad, pointing out the subtle architecture of some earrings. 2007-09-24 Ivanka Trump: The New Queen of Diamonds Harper’s Bazaar https://web.archive.org/web/20211002003056/https://www.harpersbazaar.com/celebrity/red-carpet-dresses/a207/ivanka-trump-diamonds-1007/ The hair, an elegant patisserie swirl of butter cream, is as remarkable as the gingerbread slab riding the head of Ivana Trump's equally celebrated ex-husband. Never look a day over 28, Donald Trump famously admonished his then-wife. She recalls this, adding ruefully, "It's going to cost me a fortune.” And though she has a bad back from the competitive skiing that proved her lift ticket out of Communist Czechoslovakia, Ivana [Trump] is on her way to Aspen for the holidays—and St. Moritz after that. "I can ski backwards on one ski. And foldblinded!" she exults. "But I don't go through moguls very often." This could be an apt metaphor for her love life: She recently announced that after four months of marriage, she'd filed for separation from her fourth husband, Rossano Rubicondi, an actor-slash-model-slash-arm-charm 23 years her junior. "I wear black all the time," Ivana notes. 2009-02-08 Ivana Trump’s Make-Under Harper’s Bazaar https://www.harpersbazaar.com/beauty/a64539395/most-iconic-beauty-looks-of-all-time/ In the Thrall of the Mountain King (2019) In the Thrall of the Mountain King: The Secret History of El Chapo, the World’s Most Notorious Narco. Amazon e-book, 2019 9798218874278 Less jowly now thanks to crappy jailhouse cooking—his country-boy haircut and jaunty hunting cap retired for a CEO’s side part—Chapo looked surprisingly guapo in a business suit. (And at 5’ 6”, not nearly as diminutive as his nickname Chapo—“Shorty”—would imply.) U.S. Marshals would knot his necktie just before he entered the room because mirrors can be smashed and weaponized. A former secretary observed in court he’d never seen Chapo in a suit. Early in the trial, Chapo would absently tug at his collar. Months in, he’d grown accustomed to the yoke. At trial, it became clear that in the macho, mustache-man world of drug-trafficking, Chapo had as much use for women, seducing them with saccharine forevers, then putting them to work in his stable—as buyers, as Blackberry-tapping go-betweens to preserve his anonymity on deals—involving their family members because there’s no glue stronger than blood. Does Chapo speak in tongues? “I think he has,” [Chapo’s sister] Bernarda told me. By all accounts, he has spent many hours in this church. There’s been some signature Pentecostal healing-hand work, too. “Many brothers who are pastors have laid hands on him and prayed for him, and with a contrite heart, that’s when he cries.” People in La Tuna miss Chapo, the town’s greatest, wiliest patrón. The young women debate whether he’s finally lost his looks, having only late-period pale-and-doughy mug shots to go by. (Avoiding stepping outside where one might be seen and subsisting on takeout tacos takes a toll on the body.) “I asked Chapo why he had to kill people,” recalled one former lieutenant on the [witness] stand. “And he said, “either your mom’s going to cry or their mom’s going to cry." Quotes About Eaton The Hollywood Reporter had published an article about [witness for the prosecution] Kaja Sokola with the headline "Anonymous No More: Inside the Complicated Life of Harvey Weinstein’s Key Accuser." Mr. Weinstein’s publicist, Juda Engelmayer, spotted the writer, Phoebe Eaton, in the courtroom and approached to provide Mr. Weinstein’s take on it: "He said it was fantastic." "I’m not out to please him," she said. "OK, I’ll just ignore you in the courtroom," Mr. Engelmayer said, before heading out to the hallway and toward the elevator. Jacob Bernstein,“The Perks of Being Harvey Weinstein’s Publicist”, The New York Times (3 June, 2025) Phoebe Eaton's New York Magazine look at the blue-collar vs. the blue blood Senate GOP primary in New York provides some excellent insight into John Spencer and KT McFarland and indicates the Clinton campaign may need to rent extra office space simply for the oppo research. However, it is a letter that McFarland wrote to her parents years ago that has garnered the most attention: "Shortly after she discovered [her brother] Mike had AIDS, she wrote her parents lengthy, angry, almost Gothic letters in which she outed her brother, blamed her father for his troubles as well as those of her and her other siblings, and cut off contact with her parents. 'Have you ever wondered why I have never had anything to do with Mike and have never let my daughters see him although we live only fifteen minutes away from each other?' she wrote. 'He has been a lifelong homosexual, most of his relationships brief, fleeting one-night stands.' The father's behavior had surfaced for McFarland as recovered memory. She said a shrink put her up to writing the letter; reached for comment, her mother, Edith Troia -- KT has since made up with her parents -- denied the account. 'Wouldn't that make a great book?' she said. 'Please be kind. You could be casting dark shadows on this whole race.'" Unanswered: where did Eaton get the letters [and] will [K.T. McFarland’s political consultant] Ed Rollins keep talking to the press (or, at least, to Eaton)…? Mark Halperin, “The Note: Stars of all Stripes 2006:Senate:”, The Note (ABC News) (26 June, 2006) External links Q136815208 IMDb Twitter https://phoebeeaton.com/ Profile in Adweek Profile in Town & Country (magazine) Category:Non-fiction authors from the United States Category:Journalists from New York City Category:Investigative journalists Category:Essayists from the United States Category:Women authors from the United States Category:Women journalists from the United States Category:Feminists from the United States Category:Living people Category:University of Chicago alumni __INDEX__