New York Times bestselling author Jerry Oppenheimer is considered the premier chronicler of the rich, famous and infamous. He has been writing headline-making biographies of American icons for more than a quarter-century.

His most recent work is the Times bestseller, CRAZY RICH: Power, Scandal and Tragedy Inside the Johnson & Johnson Dynasty which Publishers Weekly calls, “…An impressive example of journalistic synthesis.” In a starred review Kirkus calls Oppenheimer “A prolific biographer,” and his book a “faced-paced chronicle…suggesting that the spoiled rich are their own worst enemies.”

A profile of Oppenheimer in Tina Brown’s popular Daily Beast/Newsweek website proclaimed: “Jerry Oppenheimer is a super-sleuth…ferreting out the peccadilloes and foibles of the famous, the infamous, the powerful and the supremely well-to-do…He is a raconteur extraordinaire…”  Another called his “obsessive mapping of celebrity genealogy almost forensic.”

Oppenheimer can authoritatively speak on a wide variety of topics based on his many books: Politics because of such biographies as State of a Union: Inside the Complex Marriage of Bill and Hillary Clinton, and The Other Mrs. Kennedy: An American Drama of Power, Privilege and Politics. He’s considered an expert on corporate figures, having written such bestsellers as Just Desserts: Martha Stewart; Front Row: Anna Wintour; House of Hilton: From Conrad to Paris; Toy Monster: The Big, Bad World of Mattel, and Madoff with the Money. And he’s often interviewed because of his Hollywood and celebrity expertise, having written revelatory books about such icons as Jerry Seinfeld, Barbara Walters, and Rock Hudson.

Oppenheimer’s books – he’s now researching his twelfth, the first-ever about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — have been published internationally, and he is often quoted in such publications as Vanity Fair, New York, Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times and the list goes on. He’s appeared and has been interviewed about his books on all of the major TV news and magazine programs in the U.S. and abroad for one reason and one reason only: because his exhaustive and scrupulously researched biographies are breathtakingly revelatory, placing his subjects under a journalistic microscope.

Because of his reputation, Jerry Oppenheimer has been the subject of profiles, focusing on how he conducts his research and reporting, and how he always gets the goods. Part of his reputation is based on getting key sources to speak candidly about the book’s subject, and for the record.  Oppenheimer is a rare breed – an unrelenting  “investigative biographer” who uses all of his journalistic skills in researching and writing his books.

Before writing his first biography in the late Eighties, he spent almost a quarter-century as a national investigative reporter in Washington, probing such issues as organized crime influence in Congress; Watergate; and political corruption cases involving such figures as Vice President Spiro Agnew, and Maryland Gov. Marvin Mandel. He has worked in broadcasting as the executive producer of TV news at the ABC station in the Nation’s Capital, and as a writer and producer of documentaries.