Mark Ebner

{{Short description|American investigative journalist}}

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| birth_name = Mark Charles Ebner{{cite web|url=https://familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&query=%2Bgivenname%3AMark~%20%2Bsurname%3AEbner~%20%2Bbirth_year%3A1959-1959~|title=Birth reference for Mark Charles Ebner|work=FamilySearch.org|access-date=May 31, 2017 |url-access=registration}}

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1959|9|5}}

| birth_place = Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.

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| occupation = Investigative journalist

| years_active = 1982-present

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Mark Charles Ebner (born September 6, 1959) is an American journalist and a New York Times bestselling author{{cite news|title=Best Sellers, March 21, 2004| work=The New York Times | date=March 21, 2004 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/21/books/best-sellers-march-21-2004.html?_r=2|accessdate=8 August 2016 |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170822181331/http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/21/books/best-sellers-march-21-2004.html?_r=2 |archive-date=August 22, 2017}} who has covered celebrity and crime culture for Spy, Rolling Stone, Maxim, Details, Los Angeles Magazine, Premiere, Salon, Spin, Radar, The Daily Beast, Gawker, BoingBoing, and New Times. Ebner has covered the Church of Scientology, Bill Cosby's rape accusations, pit bull fighting, the Ku Klux Klan, celebrity stalkers, drug kingpins, missing porn star Viper, sports groupies, college suicides, and hepatitis C in Hollywood.{{cite journal|last1=Ebner|first1=Mark|title=Do You Want to Buy a Bridge|journal=Spy Magazine|date=January 1996|pages=36–40|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qlmbk8N-gdMC&q=spy+magazine+scientology&pg=PA38|accessdate=7 August 2016}} {{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodinterrupted.com/single-post/2017/09/01/exposing-scientology |title=Do You Want To Buy A Bridge? |website=Hollywood, Interrupted|date=September 2017 }}{{cite web|last1=Ebner|first1=Mark|title=I Warned You About Bill Cosby in 2007|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/i-warned-you-about-bill-cosby-in-2007 |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170605032541/https://www.thedailybeast.com/i-warned-you-about-bill-cosby-in-2007 |archive-date=June 5, 2017 |website=The Daily Beast|accessdate=7 August 2016 |date=December 30, 2015}}{{cite web|author=FishbowlNY|title=FBLA 20 Questions: Mark Ebner|url=http://www.adweek.com/fishbowlny/fbla-20-questionsmark-ebner/114570|website=Adweek|accessdate=7 August 2016 |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160820035029/http://www.adweek.com/fishbowlny/fbla-20-questionsmark-ebner/114570 |archive-date=August 20, 2016 |date=November 5, 2007}}{{cite web|title=Mark Ebner's 'The Rat': An incredible true tale of a Drug Kingpin who turned Informant |date=December 17, 2012 |first=Paul |last=Gallagher |url=http://dangerousminds.net/comments/mark_ebners_the_rat_an_incredible_true_tale_of_a_drug_kingpin|website=Dangerousminds.net|accessdate=7 August 2016}} {{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodinterrupted.com/single-post/2017/09/25/the-rat |title=The Rat |first=Mark |last=Ebner|date=September 25, 2017 }}{{cite web|last1=Ebner |first1=Mark |title=Death of a Net Head |date=October 9, 2008 |url=http://gawker.com/5061091/death-of-a-nethead |website=Gawker |accessdate=8 August 2016 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100408080831/http://gawker.com/5061091/death-of-a-nethead |archivedate=8 April 2010 }}

He has produced for, and/or appeared as a commentator on news stations NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, FOX, A&E, Comedy Central, Reelz, Showtime, History Channel, Channel 4 (UK), National Public Radio, Court TV, and TruTV, and the entertainment shows The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Today Show, The Early Show, Out Front with Erin Burnett, Anderson Cooper 360°, Fox & Friends, Inside Edition, Hard Copy, Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn, Crime Watch Daily, and Media Mayhem. Ebner consulted for Comedy Central on "Trapped in the Closet", an episode of South Park, and for NBC/Dateline on "The Paris Hilton Tapes".{{cite web|last1=Morrison|first1=Keith |date=September 23, 2006 |title=How Paris Hilton Helped Solve a Crime|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/14928838/ns/dateline_nbc-crime_reports/t/how-paris-hilton-helped-solve-crime/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130215045247/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/14928838/ns/dateline_nbc-crime_reports/t/how-paris-hilton-helped-solve-crime|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 15, 2013|website=NBCNews.com|accessdate=7 August 2016}} He hosted "Rich and Reckless" for TruTV.{{cite web|title=The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Mark Ebner|url=http://www.cc.com/video-clips/o6rbc7/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-mark-ebner|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160822132726/http://www.cc.com/video-clips/o6rbc7/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-mark-ebner|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 22, 2016|website=Comedy Central|accessdate=7 August 2016 |date=March 2, 2004}} His books include Hollywood, Interrupted, Poison Candy, Being Uncle Charlie, We Have Your Husband, Six Degrees of Paris Hilton, and Off the Deep End.