Aphrodite Jones

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Aphrodite Jones (born November 27, 1958 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American crime reporter , bestselling author , TV producer and host of the TV series True Crime with Aphrodite Jones . Before that, she presented the TV series The Justica Hunters and worked as a crime reporter for the Fox News Channel for its news programs The O'Reilly Factor and Geraldo At Large since 2004 with the major lawsuits against Scott Petersen , Michael Jackson andDennis Rader .

Life

childhood

Aphrodite Jones was born in Chicago , Illinois in 1958 to Captain Ashton Blair Jones Jr. and Maria Kalloumenous. Her father served in the US Army as a tactical officer during World War II and the Korean War, and later was director of the Navy Material Laboratory in Brooklyn , New York City , where he met and married Maria Kalloumenous. The marriage had two children, Aphrodite and Janet. Her father received the title of Rear Admiral when he retired.

Education and career

After graduating from the University of California, Los Angeles , Aphrodite Jones worked as a celebrity beat reporter for the United Features Syndicate. In 1992, Jones was teaching English at the University of Cumberlands in Williamsburg, Kentucky when she published her first book, The FBI Killer, with the shocking, true story of Susan Smith's violent slaughter by her FBI lover Mark Putnam , the first active FBI agent to convicted of murder. Based on this book, the film Betrayed for Love with Patricia Arquette and Steven Weber was made for television in 1994 . Jones' second book, Cruel Sacrifice , chronicles the murder of teenage boy Shanda Sharer by four other teenagers. Because of the publication, Jones lost her job at the University of Cumberlands, which is a conservative Baptist institution. But Cruel Sacrifice stayed on The New York Times Best Seller list for three months in 1994 .

In 1996 Jones published her book All She Wanted , based on the last weeks of life of Brandon Teen, who had been raped and murdered three years earlier . It was originally intended to provide source material for the Oscar- winning film Boys Don't Cry, starring Hilary Swank , but the film was extensively rewritten, prompting Jones to bring a lawsuit against film publisher Fox Searchlight Pictures .

During the 1990s, Aphrodite Jones was a frequent guest on US talk shows as a crime expert.

Jones is the host and producer of the TV series True Crime with Aphrodite Jones , which has been running on Investigation Discovery since 2010 . In 2010 she also married a man who wishes to remain anonymous in public.

Services

One exception was Aphrodite Jones, bestselling author and crime reporter, who followed the entire trial of Michael Jackson in the courtroom. She initially pulled together with the other reporters and intended to pillory Michael Jackson. Global media propaganda had become so independent that it simply assumed that her fellow journalists were right. After the acquittal, however, she began to deal seriously with the person Michael Jackson and conducted in-depth research, with the result that she completely changed her opinion about him. She realized that not even a handful of the 2,200 rapporteurs had accurately reproduced the facts during the process (less than 0.2%). The vast majority of reporters didn't even know the facts, because they weren't actually present in the courtroom and just pounced on what the court reporters were saying. After the acquittal, no one had apologized to Michael Jackson for portraying him as a "child molester" or a "pedophile". Aphrodite Jones was one of the very few people who, after the trial, felt the need to make amends for the journalistic mistakes they had made. The acquittal and the reasons for the verdict made her pensive, and she began her own research, which opened her eyes more and more. So she decided to write a book about the Michael Jackson trial and correct everything based on the facts. At her request, Judge Melville gave her permission to see all of the trial documents and evidence. What emerged from it was the insightful book Michael Jackson - Conspiracy , with which she emphasized in the title that the entire Arvizo affair was a conspiracy .

Works

  • 1992: The FBI Killer about Susan Smith's violent slaughter by her FBI lover Mark Putnam
  • 1994: Cruel Sacrifice about the murder of Shanda Sharer
  • 1996: All She Wanted the last weeks of life of Brandon Teena, who had been raped and murdered three years earlier .
  • 1998: Della's Web about the convicted murderess Della Sutorius
  • 1999: The Embrace: A True Vampire Story about the convicted murderer Rod Ferrell
  • 2003: Red Zone: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of the San Francisco Dog Mauling, about the dog attack that killed Diane Whipple
  • 2004: A Perfect Husband
  • 2007: Michael Jackson Conspiracy on the Michael Jackson Child Abuse Trial

literature

  • Sophia Pade, Armin Risi: MAKE THAT CHANGE. Michael Jackson: Message and Fate of a Spiritual Revolutionary. Govinda Verlag Schweiz, 2017, pp. 337–338

Web links

Commons : Aphrodite Jones  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Duerstein, Matthew C .: The Devil and Aphrodite Jones . LA Weekly. Last accessed: May 17, 2018
  2. ^ Accidental Author . tribune-digital-sunsentinel. Last accessed: May 17, 2018.
  3. ↑ True-crime Author To Tell How It's Done . tribune-digital-sunsentinel. Last accessed: May 17, 2018
  4. ^ Harrison, Eric: A Filmmaker Fictionalizes to Get at Difficult Truths . Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Last accessed: May 17, 2018.
  5. ↑ Quoted from Sophia Pade, Armin Risi: MAKE THAT CHANGE. Michael Jackson: Message and Fate of a Spiritual Revolutionary, pp. 337/338
personal data
SURNAME Jones, Aphrodite
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American crime reporter and bestselling author
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois