Michael Wolff (journalist)

Michael Wolff (born August 27, 1953) is an American journalist and media consultant, as well as a columnist and contributor to USA Today and The Hollywood Reporter. He has received two National Magazine Awards, a Mirror Award, and has authored seven books, including Burn Rate (1998) about his own dot-com company, and The Man Who Owns the News (2008), a biography of Rupert Murdoch. He co-founded the news aggregation website Newser and is a former editor of Adweek.

On January 5, 2018, Wolff's book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House was published, containing undetermined descriptions of behavior by U.S. President Donald Trump, chaotic interactions among the White House senior staff, and derogatory comments about the Trump family by former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon. The book quickly became a New York Times number-one bestseller and was the first of four books about Trump in power, the others being Siege (2019), Landslide (2021) and All or Nothing (2025).

Wolff stated on his podcast that he recorded an estimated 100 hours of interviews with Jeffrey Epstein over several years, specifically regarding Epstein's relationship with and assessment of Donald Trump.