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Introduction
Candace Bushnell is an American author, journalist, and television producer. She wrote a column for The New York Observer (1994–96) that was adapted into the bestselling Sex and the City anthology. The book was the basis for the HBO hit series Sex and the City (1998–2004) and two subsequent movies.
Bushnell followed this with the internationally bestselling novels 4 Blondes (2001), Trading Up (2003), Lipstick Jungle (2005), One-Fifth Avenue (2008), The Carrie Diaries (2010), and Summer and the City (2011). Two of her novels have been adapted for television: Lipstick Jungle (2008–09) on NBC and The Carrie Diaries (2013-2014) on The CW. One-Fifth Avenue has been optioned by the Mark Gordon Company and ABC for another television show.
Early life
| Name | Candace Bushnell |
| Net Worth | $45 million |
| Occupation | Author, Journalist, Television producer |
| Height | 1.78m |
| Age | 63 years |
| Ex-husband | Charles Askegard |
Candace Bushnell was born on December 1, 1958 (age 63 years) in Glastonbury, Connecticut. She is the daughter of Calvin L. Bushnell and Camille Salonia. Her father was one of the inventors of the air-cooled hydrogen fuel cell that was used in the Apollo space missions in the 1960s. Her Bushnell ancestors in the United States can be traced back to Francis Bushnell, one of the signatories of the Guilford Covenant, who emigrated from Thatcham, Berkshire, England in 1639. Her mother was of Italian descent.
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Candace was accompanied to her senior prom by Mike O’Meara, now a nationally syndicated radio host, who also dated Candace’s sister, “Lolly” while attending high school in Glastonbury. She attended Rice University and New York University. She moved to New York in the late 1970s and often frequented Studio 54. In 1995, she met publishing executive Ron Galotti, who became the inspiration for Sex and The City’s Mr. Big.
Career
Candace Bushnell moved to New York City at the age of 19 and sold a children’s story (which was never published) to Simon & Schuster. She continued writing and worked as a freelance journalist for various publications, struggling to make ends meet for many years. Bushnell began writing for The New York Observer in 1993. She created a humorous column for the paper (1994–96) called “Sex and the City”. The column was based on her own personal dating experiences and those of her friends.
Bushnell’s columns were published in an anthology in 1997, also called Sex and the City, and soon after became the basis for the popular HBO television series sharing the same name. The series aired from 1998 through 2004, and starred Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw, a socially active New York City sex and lifestyles columnist, a character whom Bushnell has stated was her alter ego.
The series is now in syndication and was made into two film adaptations, released in 2008 and 2010. A third film was announced in December 2016 but was ultimately canceled and replaced by the sequel miniseries, And Just Like That…, on HBO Max. Bushnell went on to publish several international and New York Times bestselling novels, including Four Blondes, Trading Up, Lipstick Jungle, and One-Fifth Avenue.
Candace Bushnell served as one of three judges for the reality television show Wickedly Perfect on CBS in 2005. Bushnell began hosting a live weekly talk show on Sirius Satellite Radio in 2007. The show, called “Sex, Success, and Sensibility,” was canceled in late 2008 after the merger of Sirius and XM Satellite Radio, when Bushnell was asked to continue the show with a 50% pay cut and refused.
Bushnell is the winner of the 2006 Matrix Award for books and a recipient of the Albert Einstein Spirit of Achievement Award. In 2009 she wrote a web series, The Broadroom, a comedic series about women over 40 dealing with workplace issues, starring Jennie Garth which was created in partnership with the magazine publisher Meredith Corporation’s Meredith 360 division.
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Her 2005 novel, Lipstick Jungle, was adapted for television and aired on NBC in 2008. The series Lipstick Jungle starred Brooke Shields in the leading role and ran for 20 episodes. In 2009, she wrote articles for Meredith’s More magazine.
She was contracted by HarperCollins in 2008 to write a series of two books for young adults, about the high school years of Sex and the City character Carrie Bradshaw. The first of these, The Carrie Diaries, was published in April 2010. The other, Summer and the City (Carrie Diaries Series #2), was published in April 2011. The Carrie Diaries was a number one New York Times Bestseller.
Husband
Candace Bushnell is currently single. She is not dating anyone. However, from 2002 to 2012, Bushnell was married to Charles Askegard, a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet who was ten years her junior, and whom she had met eight weeks before. They decided to divorce in 2011. She found the experience disorienting, telling The Guardian, “When I got divorced, I couldn’t get a mortgage; I didn’t fit into a computer model. All of a sudden, I was invited to no more couple of things. Being single is hard and there’s something a bit heroic about it.”
Candace Bushnell net worth
How much is Candace Bushnell worth? Candace Bushnell’s net worth is estimated at around $45 million. Her main source of income is from her career as an author, journalist, and television producer. Bushnell’s successful career has earned her some luxurious lifestyles and some fancy cars trips. She is one of the richest and most influential media personalities in the United States. However, Bushnell owned a co-op in Greenwich Village until 2015. From 2005 to 2016 she owned a historic Victorian farmhouse in Roxbury, CT. In 2016, she bought a co-op on East 74th Street in Manhattan.