# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/steven-joel-sotloff
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:12:55.179Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/steven-joel-sotloff"
name: "Steven Joel Sotloff"
slug: "steven-joel-sotloff"
description: "Steven Joel Sotloff was an American-Israeli journalist. In August 2013, he was kidnapped in Aleppo, Syria, and held captive by militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). On September 2, 2014, ISIS released a beheading video, showing one of its members beheading Sotloff. Following Sotloff's beheading, U.S. President Barack Obama stated that the United States would take action to \"degrade and destroy\" ISIS. President Obama also signed an Executive Order dated June 24, 2015, in the presence of the Sotloff family and other hostage families, overhauling how the U.S. handles American hostages held abroad by groups such as ISIS."
tagline: "American journalist"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f5/Steven_Sotloff_portrait.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
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  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1983-05-11"
deathDate: "2014-09-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump