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The scourned husband of former CNN anchor Paula Zahn says there's no way he could have mismanaged her millions because she was spending the money as fast as she made it. Less than two weeks after being sued by Zahn for making "dubious investments" with more than $25 million, her jilted hubby, Richard Cohen, fired back by branding his estranged wife a wastrel who wants to air their dirty laundry in public. "The $20 million cost of her Connecticut mansion alone (without even including the extravagant nature of Ms. Zahn's annual expenditures) consumed more than her entire income over their...

August 28, 2007 -- Paula Zahn's teed-off hubby didn't know that steamy sex trysts between his wife and an old pal were par for the course for years. Maybe he should have. [snip] "Richard feels betrayed," one pal said - and he only found out the truth from a tell-all manuscript Zahn wrote that documents her relationship with ContiGroup CEO Fribourg. "It's a lurid and shocking handwritten account of their relationship," said the friend, who asked not to be identified.[snip] Zahn, 51, and Cohen haven't yet filed divorce papers, and Cohen's friends said he thought they were trying to work...

Newswoman Paula Zahn has a tough question for her estranged husband: What did you do with all my money?[snip]... [snip]...."Despite Ms. Zahn's repeated requests for full financial disclosure, Ms. Zahn simply does not and, as yet, cannot know the basic contours of her overall financial condition," her lawyer Stanley Arkin wrote in court papers. The couple met in the early 1980s, when Zahn was working at a local TV station in Boston. By the time they married in 1987, Zahn had put Cohen in charge of every cent she ever saved or earned, according to the lawsuit. The arrangement was...

NEW YORK (AP) - Paula Zahn is leaving CNN, turning her prime-time slot over to Campbell Brown. Zahn's final program will be Aug. 2. Others will fill in until November, when Brown - newly hired from NBC News- will start, CNN said Tuesday. Zahn has been at the network for nearly six years since jumping from Fox News Channel - her first day on the job Sept. 11, 2001. She said she expects to stay in television after taking some time off. "For the first time in 30 years, I'm going to take a break here," said Zahn, 51. Although...

Paula Zahn has resigned from CNN. Zahn hosted CNN's 8pm ET program, Paula Zahn Now. The departure comes just one day after Campbell Brown signed on with CNN. TVNewser joined a conference call around this time yesterday, in which CNN/U.S. president Jon Klein introduced Brown as his network's newest on-air hire. Klein promised an announcement about Brown's primetime program would be made "over the next several days." Zahn joined CNN in 2001. Her first day on the air was September 11, co-anchoring coverage of the 9/11 attacks with another new hire at the time, Aaron Brown. Later that fall, Zahn...

The search for missing pregnant Ohio woman Jessie Davis and the ongoing investigation into her murder has been all the rage recently on the twenty-four hour news networks, only surpassed by a few "choice" stories such as the coverage of the imprisonment of Paris Hilton. Not surprisingly, one network, CNN, used the murder of this young woman to forward a left-wing agenda. Two guests on Monday's "Paula Zahn Now" program warned that a "big risk factor" or a "big red flag" in cases of domestic violence and/or homicide against pregnant woman are "men who are gun owners."Host Paula Zahn had...

Paula Zahn's 8:00 p.m. show on CNN is being canceled. Its ratings had been falling precipitously for months. According to several reports, CNN plans to replace Zahn with NBC's Campbell Brown, whose contract with the network expires next month. But Daily Variety quoted one insider as noting that Brown resembles Zahn in that they are "network-style anchors" who will be up against tough competition from "brash, opinionated hosts" on rival cable news networks. "Why replace Paula with another Paula?" the Variety source asked.

In going on Paula Zahn's CNN show this evening, was Al Sharpton's goal to quell the controversy surrounding his comments about Mormonism, or to inflame it? If the former, he failed miserably. If the latter, he succeeded admirably.Let's recall Sharpton's original statement, that in going on the Zahn show he presumably was seeking to explicate. Debating Christopher Hitchens recently, Sharpton said: "And as for the one Mormon running for office, those that really believe in God will defeat him anyway. So don't worry about that. That's a temporary, that's a temporary situation." Discussing those comments on "Paula Zahn Now" this...

He used to be a family friend who joined them on ski trips. But now business mogul Paul Fribourg is the other man in the Paula Zahn-Richard Cohen breakup - and something for the warring spouses to argue about. "[Cohen] and Paula disagree over how long her thing with Paul has been going on," a friend of the couple said. As the marriage of the CNN anchorwoman and the wealthy developer publicly implodes, Fribourg is said to be on vacation with his Moroccan-born wife, Josabeth, with whom he has four kids and an upper East Side brownstone. Fribourg, 53, is...

The scorned husband of CNN anchorwoman Paula Zahn is furious that she ditched him for another business titan, a friend of the couple told the Daily News yesterday. The newscaster, who married megabucks developer Richard Cohen in 1987, recently cheated on him with Paul Fribourg, the married chairman of one of the largest privately held companies in the U.S., the friend said. "Richard is livid over her affair," the friend said. "He's so angry that he can't help telling friends about it. "Hell hath no fury like a man scorned."[snip]..... .......[snip]He was widely vilified several years ago when the Fifth...

JUST three weeks after Page Six ran a blind item about their crumbling marriage, Paula Zahn and her husband, real-estate magnate Richard Cohen, have filed for divorce. The blind item asked, "Which TV news anchorwoman is about to get separated from her husband? He suspects she's been having an affair . . . " An insider confirmed that not only does Zahn have a boyfriend, he's also married with children. Radaronline claims the man is ContiGroup CEO Paul Fribourg, who did not return our calls. "It's going to get very messy," our spy said.

A hawk-hugging protester has been busted for terrifying the two young sons of CNN anchor Paula Zahn and stalking the celebrity mom and her hubby, authorities said yesterday. "Bring back the nest! Bring back the birds!" Lincoln Karim, 43, first shouted at Zahn's 7-year-old son, Austin, who was walking the family dog with his nanny near their Fifth Avenue co-op around 4:25 p.m. last Thursday, law-enforcement sources said. The stunned boy immediately ran cowering back into the building's doorway, they said. A ranting Karim then accosted Zahn's 11-year-old boy, Jared, and her hubby, Richard Cohen, outside the building at 927...

Paula Zahn Gripe Leads to Arrest December 14, 2004 10:54 PM EST NEW YORK - An advocate for two red-tailed hawks evicted last week from their nest at a luxury Manhattan apartment building was arrested Tuesday and charged with harassing CNN anchor Paula Zahn, who lives in the building, and her family, law enforcement sources said. Lincoln Karim, 43, was arrested by plainclothes detectives as he prepared to lead a demonstration outside Zahn's Fifth Avenue building across from Central Park. Karim, a video engineer for Associated Press Television News who was on vacation Tuesday, was charged with multiple counts of...

NEW YORK - Incensed New York bird lovers intensified their protests on Saturday outside the ritzy Upper East Side apartment building that removed the nest of famed red-tailed hawk, Pale Male, even as meetings were set to discuss bringing back the hawk's home. Holdings signs saying "Protect Family Values, Bring Back the Nest" and "Honk for the Hawks," the crowd chanted "Bring back the nest!" and elicited raucous honks from buses, taxis and cars. It was the fourth day of protests outside the building, which on Tuesday abruptly took down the hawk's nest and metal spikes that supported it. John...

Supporters of the city's most famous homeless couple have published the names and phone numbers of their privacy-loving former landlords — and demanded that CNN report on the bird brouhaha, which features its anchor Paula Zahn. Hundreds of hawk-huggers from around the country, outraged that the board of Zahn's co-op evicted Pale Male and his paramour, Lola, from their nest on the exclusive Fifth Avenue building, declared guerrilla war. They posted the co-op owners' numbers on the Internet and sent hundreds of angry e-mails to Mayor Bloomberg and Upper East Side elected officials. The Internet posting could be have the...

Your article would post as follows: Here's my submitted question. Doubt it will get aired: Why call the program 'The Undecided Vote?' It appears PZ has is in for the Republican representative. Why don't you do your job and field the questions from the audience not field your own attacks against the administration Can you say LIBERAL BIAS? 1000-1 says PZ's vote is not undecided. Kerry all the way! The most trusted name in News? You've got to be delusional. Shameful performance. Here's the link! Submit your question

'Hanoi Jane' Fonda is teaming up with a leading anti-Bush 527 group in a bid to register millions of women voters to cast their ballots for her old anti-war protest partner, John Kerry. Fonda, who called President Bush a "radical ideologue" during a campaign stop in New York City last week, was asked about her latest move during a recent interview with CNN's Paula Zahn, and explained why she's come out of political retirement to back Kerry: ZAHN: Let's talk a little bit about this partnership you have with MoveOn.org, an organization that has spent tens of millions of dollars...

DUers say this is running 81% in favor of Kerry. Question is "Who has a better plan for Iraq? Bush or Kerry.

... With me now to take a closer look at Muslim reaction to Beslan, Fouad Ajami, director of Middle East studies at Johns Hopkins University. ... ZAHN: Let me pose that question. ... ZAHN: Is there something fundamentally wrong with Muslim society that continues to spawn these terrorists? AJAMI: Well, I think this is a question that's haunting ordinary Muslims. ... Ben Wedeman has done a good job giving you a sense of the responses in the Muslim world. And there was this editorial in one of the leading papers in the Arab world, "Al Asharq Al-Awsat," where a very...

Impeachment process to blame for 9-11? Interviewing impeachment manager Bob Barr, CNN's Paula Zahn on Monday night advanced the notion that "analysts...are suggesting that this impeachment was a great distraction to the country and might have slowed down any kind of progress that was being made on the hunt for Osama bin Laden." In contrast, Newsweek's Howard Fineman, appearing on Imus in the Morning, held Bill Clinton culpable for doing a "big nothing" in response to a series of terrorist attacks on his watch. Fineman pointed out how Clinton said he was worried about how "it would look like he...