Socialite Author Amy Griffin Denies Threatening New York Times Reporter's Child

Billionaire author denies claims she threatened journalist's children

Griffin, who wrote The Tell, denied trying to meddle in the college admissions process for the son of a journalist who reported damaging claims about her.

Socialite author Amy Griffin denies threatening New York Times reporter's child

Author Amy Griffin allegedly threatened New York Times reporter Katherine Rosman's son and tried to block her children from college after the scribe suggested Griffin had cribbed a story of sexual abuse and passed it off as her own in a memoir.

Exclusive: Times journalist’s children allegedly became billionaire memoirist’s focus

Days after a New York Times investigation raised questions about Amy Griffin’s memoir The Tell, reporter Katherine Rosman received a worrying call.

Sources: after an NYT report questioned abuse recollections in Amy Griffin's memoir, the billionaire said she would target reporter Katherine Rosman's son (Ben Smith/Semafor)

Ben Smith / Semafor: Sources: after an NYT report questioned abuse recollections in Amy Griffin's memoir, the billionaire said she would target reporter Katherine Rosman's son  —  The Scoop  —  The New York Times article appeared on September 24, 2025, under the headline .  —  The 4,980-word investigation …

Times journalist’s children allegedly became billionaire memoirist’s focus

The Scoop The New York Times article appeared on September 24, 2025, under the headline The Billionaire, the Psychedelics and the Best-Selling Memoir. The 4,980-word investigation by Katherine Rosman and Elisabeth Egan captured a wave of discomfort that had rippled from New York’s publishing world…