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Is Carol Radziwill a lesbian?

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Zoe Patterson

Updated on February 23, 2026

Carole Ann Radziwiłł is an American journalist, author, and television personality. Throughout nearly two decades working as a journalist and producer for ABC News, her reporting earned her three Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, and a GLAAD Media Award.

Is Carol Radziwill a lesbian?

Carole Ann DiFalco was born on August 20, 1963, and grew up in a working-class family in Suffern, New York. Carol never come out as lesbian, she and her fellow ABC News producer, Prince Anthony Radziwiłł, married in East Hampton, New York. Her husband died of cancer on August 10, 1999.

Radziwill briefly dated Russ Irwin of Aerosmith. Irwin appears on Bravo’s “Real Housewives of New York City”, Season 5. Radziwill began her news career at ABC in New York, in 1985, as an intern in postproduction for 20/20, a news magazine show.

She was later assigned to Close Up as a production secretary. Radziwill eventually worked for Peter Jennings’ documentary unit, producing shows on abortion and gun control, and covering foreign policy stories in Cambodia, Haiti, and India.