Rebekah Brooks, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Rebekah Brooks

English journalist

Date of Birth: 27-May-1968

Place of Birth: Warrington, England, United Kingdom

Profession: journalist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Rebekah Mary Brooks (née Wade; born 27 May 1968) is a British journalist and former newspaper editor.
She was chief executive officer of News International from 2009 to 2011, having previously served as the youngest editor of a British national newspaper at News of the World, from 2000 to 2003, and the first female editor of The Sun, from 2003 to 2009.
Brooks married actor Ross Kemp in 2002.
They divorced in 2009 and she married former racehorse trainer and author Charlie Brooks. Brooks was a prominent figure in the News International phone hacking scandal, having been the editor of the News of the World from 2000 to 2003 when one of the stories which involved illegal phone hacking was carried out by the newspaper.
Following a criminal trial in 2014 she was cleared of all charges by a jury at the Old Bailey, which accepted her defence: that in the circumstances she had no knowledge of the illegal acts carried out by staff at the newspaper.In September 2015, Brooks was confirmed as CEO of News UK, the renamed News International, re-establishing the working relationship with News Corp founder and chairman Rupert Murdoch.