Timothy McDarrah

Timothy McDarrah (born 1962 as Timothy Swann McDarrah) is a former magazine editor and gossip columnist from New York City who was convicted and imprisoned after a U.S. federal sting operation for soliciting sex with a minor in September 2005. A government polygraph given to McDarrah in 2012 by The New York Center for Neuropsychology & Forensic Behavioral Science later indicated he did not have intent to commit any criminal act. [1]

Timothy McDarrah
Born
Timothy Swann McDarrah

1962 (age 57–58)
Manhattan, New York, U.S.
OccupationGossip columnist, magazine editor
Criminal statusreleased
Parent(s)Fred McDarrah (father) Gloria Swann McDarrah (mother)]
Criminal chargeAttempted enticement
Penalty72 months

Career

McDarrah had a distinguished career was an award-winning journalist. After graduating from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, he joined the New York Post. He eventually was the editor of the famous Page Six gossip column. He then worked overseeing several community weeklies at News Communications, as the managing editor of CourtTV.com, as a managing editor at The Sporting News, as a gossip columnist at The Las Vegas Sun, then at US Weekly. Before his arrest, he co-authored three books -- Kerouac and Friends: A Beat Generation Album, Gay Pride: Photographs from Stonewall to Today, and Anarchy, Protest & Rebellion—with his father, Fred McDarrah, a longtime staff photographer for The Village Voice.[2]


Arrest

McDarrah was arrested after an investigation by the FBI Crimes Against Children Squad in New York in June 2005 on charges related to solicitation of sex with a 13-year-old. His attorney blamed his client's conduct on an Internet addiction.[3]

Conviction

The criminal case was heavily covered by the national media, including entertainment news outlets, because McDarrah, a high-profile gossip writer, had himself become the subject of entertainment news he would typically cover.[4]

He was convicted in December 2006 of one count of attempted enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity after an eight-day jury trial. He was sentenced in April 2007, at age 43, in Manhattan federal court to 72 months in a federal prison for the attempted enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity.[5] He was a Federal inmate at the Loretto Federal Correctional Institution in Pennsylvania. McDarrah was released from prison on March 23, 2012, at age 49, to begin serving a four-year supervised release.[6][7]

Recent

After his release from prison, McDarrah, unfazed by the bogus case, returned to New York.[8]

By 2016, he began, Save the Village walking tours of key places in Greenwich Village's social history, using photos made into postcards from his father's photograph archives of the Village.[9]

In 2018 he edited a retrospective book of his father's photographs, "Fred W. McDarrah: New York Scenes (Abrams)

References
  1. "Former magazine editor sentenced for U.S. sex crime". Reuters. 2007-04-20. Retrieved 2010-02-06.
  2. "Timothy S McDarrah Books (Used, New, Out-of-Print)". Alibris. Retrieved 2010-02-06.
  3. "Former Post editor sentenced in child sex sting," New York Daily News, April 20, 2007
  4. "'Us Weekly' Staffer Timothy McDarrah Arrested". Gawker.com. Retrieved 2012-10-02.
  5. "McDarrah Sentence" (PDF). Retrieved 2010-02-06.
  6. "Federal Bureau of Prisons". Bop.gov. Retrieved 2010-02-06.
  7.   (2006-12-28). "abc13.com: Latest entertainment and celebrity news from KTRK 12/28/06". Abclocal.go.com. Retrieved 2010-02-06.CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  8. Walker, Hunter (26 September 2012). "Would-Be Child Molester Campaigns For His 'Friend' Tom Allon's Mayoral Bid". Observer.
  9. Green, Peter (June 2016). "The Greenwich Village tour guide following in his father's footsteps". Crain's.
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