Randall Sullivan attended Sunset High School in Portland, Oregon. Sullivan was interested in football during his time at high school.
He then studied at the University of Oregon and completed his bachelor’s degree in English (with honours) in 1974.
Later on, in 1976 Sullivan accepted a two year writing fellowship and joined Columbia University. He took courses at the Columbia School of Journalism, and left with a Master’s degree a few years later.
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Sullivan on the set of City of Lies in 2017.
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Sullivan on the set of City of Lies in 2017.
Randall Sullivan attended Sunset High School in Portland, Oregon. Sullivan was interested in football during his time at high school.
He then studied at the University of Oregon and completed his bachelor’s degree in English (with honours) in 1974.
Later on, in 1976 Sullivan accepted a two year writing fellowship and joined Columbia University. He took courses at the Columbia School of Journalism, and left with a Master’s degree a few years later.
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Randall Sullivan was born on December 1, 1951, in Los Angeles, California, United States, a son of Howard W. Sullivan, a longshoreman, and Elaine V. (White) Sullivan, a secretary. He grew up in North Bend, Oregon and, when he was a teenager, his family moved to Portland, Oregon.
Randall Sullivan attended Sunset High School in Portland, Oregon. Sullivan was interested in football during his time at high school.
He then studied at the University of Oregon and completed his bachelor’s degree in English (with honours) in 1974. Later on, in 1976 Sullivan accepted a two year writing fellowship and joined Columbia University. He took courses at the Columbia School of Journalism, and left with a Master’s degree a few years later.
Randall Sullivan took his first journalist position in 1978 at the New York Daily News for about ten months and moved to Los Angeles to pursue his further career at the Herald Examiner as a columnist from 1979 to 1983 and at Rolling Stone as a contributing editor between 1983 and 1991.
Sullivan started his professional career as a writer since 1991. He wrote for numerous widely recognized publications, which include The Guardian, Esquire, The Washington Post, Wired and Rolling Stone.
Furthermore, Sullivan wrote an article for Esquire giving a brief introduction of corruption and criminal activities of the Billionaire Boys Club. Sullivan came into the limelight of the Los Angeles town after the article was published. He was paid $250,000 to write a book, which is based on the article. This was the highest payment ever paid to a first-time author.
In 1996, Sullivan published "The Price of Experience: Money, Image, Power, and Murder". He researched and wrote the books where he spent ten years.
Sullivan also published "Labyrinth: A Detective Investigates the Murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G.", "The Implication of Death Row Record’s Suge Knight" and 'The Origins of the Los Angeles Police Scandal". Besides, these he has published several other books entitled The Miracle Detective, Untouchable and Labyrinth.
In addition, he was co-writer on the made-for-TV movie "A Friend to Die For" (based on Sullivan's article "Death of a Cheerleader"). As a producer, he co-produced the documentary Reckless Indifference, and he was an executive producer on the Oprah Winfrey Network mini-series "Miracle Detectives".
Sullivan is also an actor on the History Channel reality-TV show "The Curse of Oak Island", where he plays himself. He is currently executive producing the upcoming film "City of Lies" starring Johnny Depp and Forest Whitaker.
Sullivan currently lives in Portland, Oregon.
Randall Sullivan is best known as journalist, author, screenwriter, on camera television personality and film producer. Among his notable works are "The Price of Experience", "Labyrinth" and "The Miracle Detective", all were nominated for Pulitzer Prize.
He received the Los Angeles Press Club Award for best feature in 1979 and the Hearst Writing Award for best feature in 1980. Besides, Sullivan won the second prize of R. F. Kennedy Journalism Awards in 1980.
For most of his life Sullivan identified as an atheist, but in 1995 he underwent a spiritual conversion to Catholicism while he was in Medjugorje reporting on the Bosnian War. This experience was influential to his research, writing, and co-hosting of the Oprah Winfrey Network show "Miracle Detectives".
Sullivan's political views are described as "Independent".
Randall Sullivan has been a member of Writers Guild of America (West) and Phi Beta Kappa.
Randall Sullivan married Karen Kuhlman in 1971, but they divorced in 1981. He then married Tara Fields in 1985, but the couple divorced in 1988. Sullivan married his third spouse Joy Candace Welp on September 13, 1995. Later he again divorced.
According to some sources, Sullivan is married to fashion model turned social activist Delores Sullivan (formerly Delores Teller) whom he met while writing a profile of her for Rolling Stone magazine.
