Mike Taibbi (born c. 1949) is an American television journalist best known for his work at NBC News. He retired in 2014, having covered, among other events, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Mike Taibbi has an estimated net worth of $800-$1 Million. Taibbi was born Loren Ames Denny to a Filipino-Hawaiian mother, Camila Salinas, in Hawaii, in about 1949. At the age of seven or eight, he was adopted by Salvatore and Gaetana Taibbi (whose surname is of Sicilian and Lebanese origin).
Thereafter, he took the name Mike Taibbi and was raised in Malverne, New York, a Long Island suburb of New York City. After high school, Taibbi attended Rutgers University. He graduated in 1971 with degrees in journalism and sociology. Taibbi attended the University of Chicago Law School.
Early in his career, Taibbi worked in local television news in Boston and New York City. Subsequently, he worked at both ABC News and CBS News before joining NBC News, in 1997, to work on Dateline NBC.