Mark Ebner (born Mark Charles Ebner; September 6, 1959) is an American journalist and a New York Times bestselling author who has covered all aspects of celebrity and crime culture for Spy, Rolling Stone, Maxim, Details, Los Angeles Magazine, Premiere, Salon, Spin, Radar, The Daily Beast, Gawker, BoingBoing, and New Times. Among the many and varied topics Ebner has covered are: Scientology, Bill Cosby's rape accusations, pit bull fighting, the Ku Klux Klan, celebrity stalkers, drug kingpins, missing porn stars, sports groupies, college suicides, and Hepatitis C in Hollywood.He has produced for, and/or appeared as a commentator on, the news stations NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, FOX, A&E, Comedy Central, REELZ, Showtime, History Channel, Channel 4 (UK), National Public Radio, Court TV, and TruTV, and the entertainment shows The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Today Show, The Early Show, Out Front with Erin Burnett, Anderson Cooper 360°, Fox & Friends, Inside Edition, Hard Copy, Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn, Crime Watch Daily, and “Media Mayhem." Ebner also consulted for Comedy Central on "Trapped in the Closet", an episode of South Park, and for NBC/Dateline on “The Paris Hilton Tapes”. He hosted “Rich and Reckless” for TruTV, was a featured guest on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart." His books include the NY Times bestseller Hollywood, Interrupted, Poison Candy, Being Uncle Charlie, We Have Your Husband, and the Hollywood true-crime saga, Six Degrees of Paris Hilton.