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Elizabeth Vargas

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Date of Birth: 1962 , September-6
Birth Nation: United States
Name Elizabeth Vargas
Birth Name Elizabeth Anne Vargas
Nationality American
Birth Place/City Paterson, New Jersey
Ethnicity White
Profession Journalist
Net Worth 3 million dollar
Eye Color Green
Hair Color Blonde
Weight in KG 58 KG
Married Yes
Married to Marc Cohn (m. 2002)
Divorce Not Yet
Education University of Missouri
Awards ALMA Award for Outstanding Host in a National Information Program
TV Show 20/20 Since 1978

Quick Timeline of Elizabeth Vargas

1962 Born in Paterson, New Jersey
1983 Worked at NBC affiliate KOMU-TV
1993 Joined NBC News
2003 Joined WNT Sunday
2006 Announced her resignation from WNT
2006 Became the primary host of ABC News specials
2002 Married to Marc Cohn
2003 First child, Zachary Raphael Cohn
2006 Second child, Samuel Wyatt Cohn
1999 Won Emmy Award

Detail Timeline of Elizabeth Vargas

September 6 , 1962

Born in Paterson, New Jersey

Sweet and lovely lady, Elizabeth Vargas was born as Elizabeth Anne Vargas in the early 1960s in Paterson, New Jersey, United States of America to Rafael Vargas and Anne Vargas. She is of Porto Rican, Irish and American descent.

1983

Worked at NBC affiliate KOMU-TV

While she was in Missouri, she joined NBC affiliate KOMU-TV as its reporter and an anchor. That was the beginning of her broadcasting career. Later on she joined Chicago’s WBBM and she worked there for about four years.

1993

Joined NBC News

In 1993, she became associated with NBC News as a correspondent for Dateline NBC. She also worked there as a sub anchor for Today. Three years later, she began working at Good Morning America as its newsreader.

2003

Joined WNT Sunday

In 1997, she was named the primetime magazine show correspondent by ABC. She also worked as an anchor and presenter of WNT Saturday. At the end of 2003, she joined WNT Sunday as its anchor. 

May 23 , 2006

Announced her resignation from WNT

Elizabeth Vargas is a TV journalist, anchor and show host from United States. She joined WNT at the end of 1990s and she worked there as an anchor and presenter for several years. On 23rd of May 2006, she announced her resignation from WNT. 

2006

Became the primary host of ABC News specials

She is famous for being an anchor of ABC's television newsmagazine 20/20 and ABC News specials.  She took this job after she quit WNT in early 2006. She joined ABC News specials at the end of 2006 and she is still holding this job. 

July 20 , 2002

Married to Marc Cohn

After years of romantic love affairs with a singer and songwriter Marc Cohn, Elizabeth finally tied her married knot with him on 20th of July 2002. March is famous for his single Walking in Memphis. Together they have already welcomed two children.

January 31 , 2003

First child, Zachary Raphael Cohn

She became mother for the first time in her life in the early 2003. She and love of her life Marc Cohn welcomed their first child together on 31st of January and that time it was a son and they named him Zachary Raphael Cohn. 

August 16 , 2006

Second child, Samuel Wyatt Cohn

She became mother for the second time in her life in 2006. She and love of her life Marc Cohn welcomed their second child together on 16th of August and that time it was also a son and they named him Samuel Wyatt Cohn. 

1999

Won Emmy Award

 Emmy Award is one of the prestigious awards in the broadcasting world. She has also once been honored with this award once and that was in 1999 for Outstanding Instant Coverage of a News Story. 

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After years of romantic love affairs with a singer and songwriter Marc Cohn, Elizabeth finally tied her married knot with him on the 20th of July 2002. March is famous for his single "Walking in Memphis." Together they have already welcomed two children. There are no rumors about their divorce.

When Elizabeth was in her teen, she was raised in Germany and Belgium. With the completion of her high school graduation, she joined the University of Missouri in Columbia, where she majored in journalism and received a bachelor's degree.

While she was in Missouri, she joined NBC affiliate KOMU-TV as its reporter and an anchor. That was the beginning of her broadcasting career. Later on, she joined Chicago’s WBBM and she worked there for about four years.

In 1993, she associated with NBC News as a correspondent for Dateline NBC. She also worked there as a sub-anchor for Today. Three years later, she began working at Good Morning America as its newsreader.

Since 2006, she has been working as the co-anchor of 20/20 and primary host of ABC News specials. As an ABC News' News anchor she must have received an annual salary of around $150,000 as a salary of a news reporter at ABC News ranges from $99,247-$195,903.

Her estimated total annual income is around $0.9 million and she has a personal investment of about $2.1 million; as well as, drives two luxury cars, worth around $0.3 million and her present net worth is approximately $3.6 million.