# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/j-randy-taraborrelli
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:19:16.980Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/j-randy-taraborrelli"
name: "J. Randy Taraborrelli"
slug: "j-randy-taraborrelli"
description: "John Randall Anthony Taraborrelli is an American journalist and celebrity biographer. Prior to his book-writing career, he was a magazine journalist and editor-in-chief of Soul magazine, the black entertainment title. Taraborrelli is known for biographies of contemporary entertainers and political figures such as Frank Sinatra, Diana Ross, Marilyn Monroe, Michael Jackson, Madonna, the Kennedy family, the Hilton family, and Beyoncé. He also regularly appears on television as an entertainment news reporter on programs such as Entertainment Tonight, Good Morning America, Today and CBS This Morning. Taraborrelli lives in California."
tagline: "American journalist and biographer"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/xbyoS6GdqWEi5bpfaqIre4M31HJ.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1956-02-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.718542230977592
  historical:           10.45260666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0850156"
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    title: "J. Randy Taraborrelli"
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    title: "Тараборелли, Джон Рэндалл Энтони"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump