What Is Ann Coulter's Net Worth?
Ann Coulter is a renowned American conservative commentator, writer, syndicated columnist, and lawyer with a net worth of $10 million. Known for her controversial views, Coulter enjoys provoking strong reactions from the liberal community.
Early Life
Ann Hart Coulter was born on December 8, 1961, in New York City. Her father, John Vincent Coulter, was an FBI agent from Albany, New York, and her mother, Nell Husbands Coulter (née Martin), hailed from Paducah, Kentucky. Ann grew up in New Canaan, Connecticut, alongside her two brothers, James and John.
After graduating in 1980 from New Canaan High School, Coulter attended Cornell University. She was an active member of the Delta Gamma sorority and co-founded "The Cornell Review," a prominent conservative college publication. In 1984, she graduated with a B.A. in History and earned her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Michigan Law School in 1988, where she served as an editor for the Michigan Law Review and trained at the National Journalism Center.
Early Career
Post-law school, Coulter clerked for Judge Pasco Bowman II at the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in Missouri. She briefly practiced private law in New York City before joining the United States Senate Judiciary Committee in 1994, handling crime and immigration issues for Senator Spencer Abraham. She later worked as a litigator for the Center of Individual Rights.
Media Success
In the late 1990s, Coulter began a syndicated column for Universal Press Syndicate, featured on several conservative platforms, including her own website. She was a columnist for "George" magazine in 1999 and wrote weekly for "Human Events" from 1998 to 2003. Coulter made her television debut as a legal correspondent for MSNBC in 1996, later appearing on CNN and Fox News, solidifying her status as a sharp-tongued conservative commentator, speaker, and author.
In 2004, Coulter appeared in three documentaries, including "Feeding the Beast," "FahrenHYPE 9/11," a rebuttal to Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11," and "Is It True What They Say About Ann?" which featured her interviews and speeches.
Books
Coulter has authored several best-sellers that reflect her passionate and controversial perspectives. Notable works include "High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton" (1998), "Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right" (2002), "Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism" (2003), and compilations like "How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter" (2004). Other titles include "Godless: The Church of Liberalism" (2006), "If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans" (2007), "Guilty: Liberal 'Victims' and Their Assault on America" (2009), "Demonic: How the Liberal Mob is Endangering America" (2011), "Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama" (2012), "Never Trust a Liberal Over 3 – Especially a Republican" (2013), and "Adios, America: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country Into a Third World Hellhole" (2015).
Controversial Comments
Coulter stands by her frequent controversial remarks, often made on her friend Bill Maher's show "Real Time with Bill Maher." Some of her most notorious comments include derogatory remarks about John Edwards and Barack Obama and advocating for women to lose their voting rights. Ann spends significant time touring the country as a speaker, earning substantial income from her engagements—estimated at $500,000 in 2010 alone.
Political Views
A staunch Republican and Presbyterian, Coulter is vocally anti-abortion, supportive of Confederate flag displays, opposed to hate crime laws and amnesty for undocumented immigrants, against same-sex marriage, supportive of the War on Drugs, and promotes the white genocide conspiracy theory. Initially endorsing Donald Trump in 2016, she has since distanced herself from him, calling herself a "former Trumper" due to policy disagreements.
Personal Life
Despite multiple engagements, Coulter remains unmarried with no children. She has been romantically linked to publisher Bob Guccione Jr., writer Dinesh D'Souza, and politician Andrew Stein. Coulter owns properties in Palm Beach, Florida, Manhattan, New York City, and Los Angeles, California.