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The scourned husband of former CNN anchor Paula Zahn says there's no way he could have mismanaged her millions because she was spending the money as fast as she made it. Less than two weeks after being sued by Zahn for making "dubious investments" with more than $25 million, her jilted hubby, Richard Cohen, fired back by branding his estranged wife a wastrel who wants to air their dirty laundry in public. "The $20 million cost of her Connecticut mansion alone (without even including the extravagant nature of Ms. Zahn's annual expenditures) consumed more than her entire income over their...

August 28, 2007 -- Paula Zahn's teed-off hubby didn't know that steamy sex trysts between his wife and an old pal were par for the course for years. Maybe he should have. [snip] "Richard feels betrayed," one pal said - and he only found out the truth from a tell-all manuscript Zahn wrote that documents her relationship with ContiGroup CEO Fribourg. "It's a lurid and shocking handwritten account of their relationship," said the friend, who asked not to be identified.[snip] Zahn, 51, and Cohen haven't yet filed divorce papers, and Cohen's friends said he thought they were trying to work...

Newswoman Paula Zahn has a tough question for her estranged husband: What did you do with all my money?[snip]... [snip]...."Despite Ms. Zahn's repeated requests for full financial disclosure, Ms. Zahn simply does not and, as yet, cannot know the basic contours of her overall financial condition," her lawyer Stanley Arkin wrote in court papers. The couple met in the early 1980s, when Zahn was working at a local TV station in Boston. By the time they married in 1987, Zahn had put Cohen in charge of every cent she ever saved or earned, according to the lawsuit. The arrangement was...

August 25, 2007 -- CNN anchorwoman Paula Zahn sued estranged husband Richard Cohen in Manhattan yesterday, saying he mismanaged some $25 million of her income and maybe swiped some. Cohen, a real-estate developer and financial manager, has invested much of Zahn's savings during the two-decade marriage in "highly illiquid, limited-liability companies," the suit states. It adds that Zahn is having a hard time finding all of her money in a "complex, opaque and indecipherable web of special-purpose entities." Plus, "some of her earnings [have] been diverted to Mr. Cohen's individual account . . . inconsistent with their financial-management arrangement." The...

NEW YORK (AP) - Paula Zahn is leaving CNN, turning her prime-time slot over to Campbell Brown. Zahn's final program will be Aug. 2. Others will fill in until November, when Brown - newly hired from NBC News- will start, CNN said Tuesday. Zahn has been at the network for nearly six years since jumping from Fox News Channel - her first day on the job Sept. 11, 2001. She said she expects to stay in television after taking some time off. "For the first time in 30 years, I'm going to take a break here," said Zahn, 51. Although...

Paula Zahn has resigned from CNN. Zahn hosted CNN's 8pm ET program, Paula Zahn Now. The departure comes just one day after Campbell Brown signed on with CNN. TVNewser joined a conference call around this time yesterday, in which CNN/U.S. president Jon Klein introduced Brown as his network's newest on-air hire. Klein promised an announcement about Brown's primetime program would be made "over the next several days." Zahn joined CNN in 2001. Her first day on the air was September 11, co-anchoring coverage of the 9/11 attacks with another new hire at the time, Aaron Brown. Later that fall, Zahn...

The search for missing pregnant Ohio woman Jessie Davis and the ongoing investigation into her murder has been all the rage recently on the twenty-four hour news networks, only surpassed by a few "choice" stories such as the coverage of the imprisonment of Paris Hilton. Not surprisingly, one network, CNN, used the murder of this young woman to forward a left-wing agenda. Two guests on Monday's "Paula Zahn Now" program warned that a "big risk factor" or a "big red flag" in cases of domestic violence and/or homicide against pregnant woman are "men who are gun owners."Host Paula Zahn had...

Paula Zahn apparently hasn't hit rock bottom yet. She's been slipping below the 400,000 viewer mark over and over again this month, starting with 372,000 viewers on May 1. She averaged just 385,000 total viewers last week -- including a new low for the month on Friday: 328,000. The story is arguably sadder in the 25-54 demo, where Zahn delivered just 88,000 demo viewers at 8pm Friday. She was doing swell last month, averaging 260,000 in the demo. But last week, she delivered just 129,000 in the demo...

April 13, 2007 -- HAPPY Friday the 13th. The black cats no dinner table seems able to stay away from this week are Paula Zahn and Don Imus. I mean, forget Bush and Iraq. And it's Hillary who? The Paula conversation is, how could she let things go this far? Kiss off a marriage of 20 years with three kids to go for somebody else who's a husband and father and stepfather. Lots of children are involved. Money's no issue because even if the new guy has a few bucks more, all the principals have it. It's like beautiful brainy...

Posted by Matthew Balan on April 12, 2007 - 13:21. That didn't take long at all. A few days after Don Imus' racially-charged remarks about the Rutgers women's basketball team, CNN set its sights on Rush Limbaugh and other conservative talk radio hosts. On Tuesday's "Paula Zahn Now," host Paula Zahn teased an upcoming segment by noting, "If you think some of the things Don Imus says are insulting, you haven't heard anything yet." She then played Rush Limbaugh's criticism of embryonic stem cell advocate Michael J. Fox from last fall. Later, in the segment itself, Zahn juxtaposed Don Imus's...

He used to be a family friend who joined them on ski trips. But now business mogul Paul Fribourg is the other man in the Paula Zahn-Richard Cohen breakup - and something for the warring spouses to argue about. "[Cohen] and Paula disagree over how long her thing with Paul has been going on," a friend of the couple said. As the marriage of the CNN anchorwoman and the wealthy developer publicly implodes, Fribourg is said to be on vacation with his Moroccan-born wife, Josabeth, with whom he has four kids and an upper East Side brownstone. Fribourg, 53, is...

The scorned husband of CNN anchorwoman Paula Zahn is furious that she ditched him for another business titan, a friend of the couple told the Daily News yesterday. The newscaster, who married megabucks developer Richard Cohen in 1987, recently cheated on him with Paul Fribourg, the married chairman of one of the largest privately held companies in the U.S., the friend said. "Richard is livid over her affair," the friend said. "He's so angry that he can't help telling friends about it. "Hell hath no fury like a man scorned."[snip]..... .......[snip]He was widely vilified several years ago when the Fifth...

JUST three weeks after Page Six ran a blind item about their crumbling marriage, Paula Zahn and her husband, real-estate magnate Richard Cohen, have filed for divorce. The blind item asked, "Which TV news anchorwoman is about to get separated from her husband? He suspects she's been having an affair . . . " An insider confirmed that not only does Zahn have a boyfriend, he's also married with children. Radaronline claims the man is ContiGroup CEO Paul Fribourg, who did not return our calls. "It's going to get very messy," our spy said.

Take a look at this chart of Keith Olbermann and Paula Zahn's demo performance from March 2006 to March 2007. After a few tough summer months, Countdown took the lead in October, and hasn't looked back since. But both shows have trended down in the past several months. Zahn averaged 164,000 demo viewers in March, down from a high of 231,000 in November. And Olbermann averaged 200,000 demo viewers in March, down from 253,000 just two months ago in January...

Paula Zahn devoted two of her hour-long CNN shows this week to the topic “Skin Deep: Racism in America.” The question I walked away with was: “What was the point?” The shows told us little that most of us don’t already know - strong racist sentiments exist in the country - and really never asked the deeper and more important questions about what this means and why we should care. According to Zahn, the production was provoked by Michael Richards’ now-famous rant at a comedy club. Given the incident, CNN thought it was worth examining, “How much racism is there...

This evening on CNN's "The Situation Room," anchor Paula Zahn hosted a brief discussion on the Iraq War with writers Andrew Sullivan and Christopher Hitchens. She began with: "Let's bring in a pair of conservatives with distinctly different points of view, Andrew Sullivan and Christopher Hitchens." But Mr. Hitchens wasn't going to let that introduction pass: ZAHN: Good to see both of you. So Christopher, at a time... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, "VANITY FAIR": I'm not a conservative. ZAHN: Our pleasure. At a time when the time American population.... HITCHENS: No, no, wait. You didn't get it. I'm not a conservative. ZAHN:...

"The inked fingers was disgusting," Air America radio talk show host Janeane Garofalo declared on MSNBC in denouncing Republican lawmakers who, before and after the State of the Union, showed off an inked finger meant to demonstrate solidarity with Iraqi voters who dipped a finger in ink when they voted. To mock the display, Garofalo soon held up her hand in a Nazi salute as she predicted: "The inked fingers and the position of them, which is gonna be a Daily Show photo already, of them signaling in this manner [Nazi salute], as if they have solidarity with the Iraqis...

ZAHN: So is it a sin for a Catholic voter to vote for John Kerry, who is pro-choice? CHAPUT: I don't think I can answer that question. What I would say, it's a sin for Catholics to violate their conscience in their voting, and I think it's important for Catholics to form their conscience according to what their church believes. So I think someone who votes for abortion candidates could be sinning, but I don't think I can answer the question the way you put it. SNIP CHAPUT: What the document from Cardinal Ratzinger actually said was, a person could,...

PAULA ZAHN: You got a lot of attention last week for on "The Factor" calling Bill Clinton an honest man. You said you know that you consider sort of astonishing anybody--oh, someone--I--Mr. O'Reilly said that he found it astonishing you would think that Mr. Clinton was an honest man. And you said you thought at his core, he's an honest person. "I know that you have a different view, and I know that you consider it sort of astonishing anybody would say so, but I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things." Well,...

For all of you complaining that the major media were all ignoring the documentary made by North about the businessmen that Saddam had their hands amputated. Paula Zahn did that story last night following the appearance of some of the businessmen with President Bush yesterday. She showed part of the documentary and had as guests both North and one of the businessmen with his new prostethic hand. The segment ran at least ten minutes and maybe fifteen. With all the complaints about the media ignoring the documentary, I was surprised to see it discussed on CNN and surprised to find...