Elizabeth Vargas: Birth, Education, Family, Marriage
A native of Paterson, New Jersey, United States, Elizabeth Vargas came into this world on the 6th of September in 1962. Her full name is Elizabeth Anne Vargas and was born to her parents Rafael Vargas and Anne Vargas. Her father is a Puerto Rican whereas her mother is an Irish- American.
During her youth, she spent her time moving from places to places in Belgium as well as Germany. She went to get her education from the University of Missouri in Columbia and graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism.
Vargas is a married woman. She is married to her long-term boyfriend Marc Cohn, a singer-songwriter. Before getting married to each other, they were in a relationship for three years. After that, the couple tied the knot on the 20th of July in 2002. Vagas is also a mother of two children, both sons. She gave birth to their first son, Zachary Raphael Cohn on the 31st of January in 2003 and to their second son on the 16th August in 2006 and named him Samuel Wyatt Cohn.
In addition to that, Vargas is also the stepmother to two children from Marc’s previous marriage. Unfortunately, their marriage didn’t last as it was reported in the August of 2014 by the Entertainment Tonight that they were getting divorced after 12 years of marriage.
Elizabeth Vargas: Professional Life, Career
Elizabeth Vargas made her debut in broadcast as the reporter and anchor for the NBC affiliate KOMU-TV. She has worked at WBBM-TV, a CBS affiliate in Chicago, Illinois and worked there for four years and later, she moved to NBC News in 1993 to work as a correspondent for the Dateline NBC as well as a sub anchor for the Today show.
She then joined the show Good Morning America in the June of 1996 as a newsreader. Vargas also became an anchor of the WNT Sunday in November of 2003 but she did not last for a long time. In the year the followed, she was named co-anchor of the 20/20 in May.
In addition to that, she was the first woman who anchored a network evening newscast in the U.S. since Connie Chung, and the first national evening news anchor with a Puerto Rican and Irish- American heritage.
Elizabeth Vargas: Net worth
Vargas has distinguished herself as one of the best television broadcasters of her generation. She has dedicated all her time towards following her passion and has overcome many obstacles that came her way.
As a result of this, her bank balance kept on increasing and currently she’s a millionaire. Reportedly, Vargas has got the estimated net worth of $3 million.
Although her exact salary figure isn't known to media, it is sure that she brings handsome salary home.
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Elizabeth Vargas: Social Media, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter
Vargas is one of the most popular celebrities on the internet and has a wide reach across some of the most popular social networking sites with a huge fan base in each of them.
She is available on Twitter at @EVargasABC and has 334 thousand followers currently. She had joined the site back in the March of 2011 and has tweeted around 6 thousand times since then. Vargas is also available on Instagram at @evargasabc and has 4.7 thousand followers on the site.
Similarly, her Facebook page has accumulated 36 thousand likes and followers.
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