Education
Ebner graduated from Bard College in 1982, where he edited the Bard Times.
Ebner graduated from Bard College in 1982, where he edited the Bard Times.
He has covered celebrity culture for Spy, Rolling Stone, Details, and Salon.com. He has been featured as a guest or contributor on Video Hits One, The Daily Show, South Park, CourtTV, and Fox News. In 2002 he co-authored Ain"t lieutenant Cool?: Hollywood"s Redheaded Stepchild Speaks Out with Harry Knowles.
With Andrew Breitbart, he wrote the New York Times and Los Angeles Times 2005 best-seller Hollywood, Interrupted.
In early 2006, Ebner joined Tucker Max"s Rudius Media as a blogger and celebrity journalist. In mid-2007, Ebner broke the news that actor and activist Sean Penn was frequenting a Hawaiian resort in the center of a controversial debate between natives and visitors over an ancestral burial ground.
Ebner also broke an investigative story in 2007 implicating Bill Cosby on allegations of sexual assaults and rapes, a story that People Magazine originally planned to publish, but buried. According to Ebner and a supposedly sourced document, their intent was to investigate the psychiatric history of killer Seung-Hui Cho.
This story was later picked up by Boing Boing and made the front page of Digg.com.
As of Summer 2008, Ebner was hosting Rich and Reckless, an original true crime series produced by and broadcast on TruTV.
