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Rona barret biography
Rona Barrett
American gossip and philanthropist
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| Born | Rona Burstein (1936-10-08) October 8, 1936 (age 88) New York, New York, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1957–1991 |
| Spouse(s) | Bill Trowbridge (m. 1973; div. 1982) |
Rona Barrett (born Rona Burstein, October 8, 1936) is an American gossip columnist and businesswoman. She runs the Rona Barrett Foundation, a non-profit organization in Santa Ynez, California, dedicated to the aid and support of senior citizens in need.
Early life and career
Barrett was born on October 8, 1936, into a Jewish family in New York City.[2][3] As a teenager, she overcame a degenerative hip condition that made walking extremely difficult, and organized fan clubs for popular singers she admired, such as Eddie Fisher and Steve Lawrence.[4] She became a gossip columnist for the Bell-McClure Syndicate in 1957, and soon went to wo