Ed Henry Biography
Ed Henry is the chief news anchor and executive editor at Newsmax Media as well as the host of ‘The Briefing’. He is a former Fox News Channel White House Chief correspondent as well as a former president of White House Correspondents Association. He was fired from Fox News on July 1, 2020, due to sexual misconduct allegations.
He was accused by former associate producer for Fox Business Network, Jennifer Eckhart of raping her in a midtown Manhattan hotel room in 2017. He however refuted the claims and said the sexting and sexual encounter was consensual. In March 2025, the judge dismissed a revenge porn claim against Henry but denied his motion to toss claims of gender-motivated violence, assault, battery, sex trafficking and harassment. A trial is scheduled to start May 12.
Ed Henry Age and Height
Ed was born on July 20, 1971 in Queens, New York, U.S. He is the son of Edward Michael Henry Jr., a dairy-manager and a bookkeeper mother whose name is not public. He stands at a height of 5 feet 9 inches tall.
Ed Henry Education
Henry attended St. John the Baptist Diocesan High School. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English from Siena College in Loudonville, New York.
Ed Henry Donated part of his Liver to his sister
Ed has a sister known as Colleen Lazzarano Henry who suffers from a degenerative liver. In July 2019 Ed donated 30 percent of his liver to Colleen, in a transplant operation. The liver is the only organ that can regenerate and hence his liver was expected to get back to 100 percent in 6 to 8 weeks.
Henry was Married to NPR’s Managing Editor Shirley Hung
Ed married his ex-wife Shirley Hung in 2010 but the couple got divorced in 2024. They got married in Las Vegas while they both worked at CNN, at the time Ed was a CNN senior White House correspondent while Shirley was a senior producer.
Shirley is NPR’s managing editor for content talent strategy and development where she focuses on staff development, editorial training, and talent recruitment. She previously served as NPR’s Chief Washington Editor and Executive Producer of the NPR Politics Podcast. Prior to joining NPR, she worked at CNN for almost a decade in different positions including managing the Washington-based unit covering Homeland Security, the Justice Department, intelligence and terrorism in the aftermath of 9/11. She also supervised all aspects of CNN Washington’s newsgathering on the weekends as a coverage manager as well as a supervising producer for national security unit.
Ed Henry Kids
Henry and his ex wife Shirley have two children together, Mila Henry and Patrick Henry.
Henry had an Affair with a Las Vegas hostess while still married
In 2016, a Las Vegas hostess Natalia Lima exposed that she had a 10-month affair with Ed. Natalia in an exclusive interview with InTouch Weekly revealed that she met Ed in 2010 via social media and they turned their friendship into a sexual relationship in the spring of 2015.
Following the revelation of the affair, Ed was put off work for almost four months. Prior to being put off work, he was covering Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign but after his return he focused on general assignment reporting.
Ed is Dating Alana Stewart, Rod Stewart’s ex-wife
Ed is dating Alana Stewart, an actress and former model as well as a New York Times best-selling author. She is also President/CEO of the Farrah Fawcett Foundation. Ed and Alana began dating in 2024 after Ed finalized his divorce. The two have been friends for years and in 2024 they ran into each other at Palm Beach where Ed residents and he asked her out to dinner.
Alana has been married and divorced twice. Her first marriage was to actor George Hamilton from 1972 to 1975. They have a son known as Ashley Hamilton. In 1979, she married singer Rod Stewart but got divorced in 1984. She kept his surname and share a daughter Kimberly and a son Sean Stewart.
Ed Henry Career
Ed began his career in journalism investigative reporter, working with columnist Jack Anderson for five years. He then joined Roll Call, a leading Capitol Hill newspaper, where he worked for eight years as a senior editor and columnist. While there, he scored an exclusive in January 1998 interviewing then-President Bill Clinton on the same day that the Monica Lewinsky story broke. He also wrote the widely read “Heard on the Hill” column for seven years.
In April 2004, he joined CNN as the moderator of CNN’s Inside Politics. In 2006 he started covering White House. In December 2008, he became CNN’s senior White House correspondent before leaving the position in June 2011 to join FOX News Channel as the Chief White House Correspondent. He held several positions including host of Fox and Friends Weekend, chief national correspondent as well as co-host of ‘ America’s Newsroom’. He was fired on July 2020 following sexual misconduct allegation.
After his firing from Fox, he joined Real America’s Voice as a correspondent and co-host of ‘America Sunsrise’. He was taken off air in 2023 and was later hired by Newsmax TV as a Chief News Anchor & Executive Editor Newsmax 2.
Ed Henry Fox News
Henry joined Fox News in 2011 and became the chief White House correspondent. He was however sidelined in 2016 from covering Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign after tabloids disclosed his extramarital relationship with a Las Vegas hostess. He was demoted to chief national correspondent and was later added as a co-anchor on Fox and Friends Weekend.
His last role at the network was as a co-host of ‘America’s Newsroom’, along with Sandra Smith. He was fired in July 1, 2020 following allegation of sexual misconduct by former associate producer for Fox Business Network, Jennifer Eckhart.
Ed Henry Sexual Harassment and Rape Allegation
Two women filed a civil lawsuit accusing Ed of rape and claiming several of the network’s biggest stars participated in a culture of sexual harassment and misconduct.
Jennifer Eckhart, a former Fox News associate producer, and Cathy Areu, a former on-air analyst, filed a 39-page complaint in federal court in Manhattan. The suit alleges that Henry sexually harassed Eckhart on several occasions and raped her in a midtown Manhattan hotel room in 2017.
In the suit, Jennifer alleged that Ed claimed he would help advance her career in exchange of sex. Eckhart’s complaint alleges that Henry “preyed upon, manipulated and groomed her,” coercing her into sexual intercourse. Among the most serious of the allegations, Eckhart says that in 2015 Henry forced her to perform oral sex on him at the Fox News building in New York. She also alleges that in 2017 he handcuffed her as part of “violent, painful rape” in a Manhattan hotel room.
Henry claims the sexual encounter were consensual. In March 2025, a federal judge dismissed a revenge porn claim against Henry but denied his motion to toss claims of gender-motivated violence, assault, battery, sex trafficking and harassment. A trial is scheduled to start May 12.
Ed Sexual Allegation at RAV
After his exit from Fox News, he joined Real America’s Voice, an internet and satellite TV network as a correspondent and “political insider” pundit. He also co-hosted ‘America Sunsrise’ alongside Karyn Turk.
While at RAV an internal complaint was lodged against him in December 2022 by a young female staffer who alleged he sent her sexually explicit messages and made inappropriate comments. In the complaint, she shared screenshots of a series of sexually explicit text messages Henry allegedly sent her.
The complaint also claimed that Henry and his co-host Karyn fostered a hostile work environment at RAV’s West Palm Beach offices in the summer and fall of that year. Henry allegedly sent a text message joking that the producer should have a female host on the network grab his testicles.
“He had started this ‘deez nutz’ running joke on air, at first I thought he was just trying to be funny, but he went way too far. He followed up the text with another comment in the studio, he said something about how ‘would I suck on deez dick.’”
A spokesperson for Henry disputed the staffer’s account, saying in a statement to Mediaite, “‘Deez nuts’ was a running joke by many employees at Real Americas Voice.”
She also alleged that Henry spent a lot of time talking about strio clubs and at the beginning og her career at RAV, Henry brought one of her co-workers to a strip club in Florida. He “also texted and talked a lot about strippers in the office and in texts with many of us who are young producers,” she wrote.
Henry’s lawyer however claimed the allegations were false and threatened to take legal action against anyone ‘spreading lies against Mr. Henry.’
Ed Henry Salary and Net worth
Ed earns an annual base salary of around $2 million and has an estimated net worth of $6 million.
Ed Henry Awards
In 2005 he was awarded Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress from the National Press Foundation for his coverage of breaking news for CNN’s America Votes 2004, as well as an exclusive March 2005 interview with Jeb Bush about the Florida governor’s inability to intercede for Terri Schiavo.
In 2008, White House Correspondents Association awarded him the Merriman Smith Award (in the broadcast category) for his reporting on the Bush administration’s contradicting assertions that top Iran officials were behind the authorization to send improvised explosive devices to Iraq.(2008)