Barbara Walters, Emmy award-winning journalist and celebrity interviewer passes away aged 93. Walters conducted interviews with the most prominent figures across politics and entertainment, from Katherine Hepburn to Monica Lewinsky to Jimmy Carter and Anwar Sadat, according to Variety, a US-based news outlet. She was the highest-paid television journalist at one time, earning as much as $12 million per year at ABC, where she worked from 1976 until her retirement from ABC News and from her popular show "The View" in May 2014. She put in 12 years at NBC`s "Today" show prior to that, and is widely known across the globe.


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“Barbara was a true legend, a pioneer not just for women in journalism but for journalism itself. She was a one-of-a-kind reporter who landed many of the most important interviews of our time, from heads of state to the biggest celebrities and sports icons. I had the pleasure of calling Barbara a colleague for more than three decades, but more importantly, I was able to call her a dear friend. She will be missed by all of us at The Walt Disney Company, and we send our deepest condolences to her daughter, Jacqueline,” Bob Iger, the CEO of The Walt Disney Company said in a statement, reports ABC news. 


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All about Barbara Walters, the award-winning journalist and celebrity interviewer:


Barbara Jill Walters was born in Boston on September 25, 1929. Her father, Lou Walters, was a nightclub owner. She attended Miami Beach High School and New York`s Fieldston School and Birch Wathen School. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a B.A. in English, as per Variety reports. Walters was married three times, first to Bob Katz in 1955, to Lee Gubers, with whom she adopted a daughter, Jacqueline; and to TV producer Merv Adelson, whom she divorced for the second time in 1992. 


Walters was an 'iconic' journalist and has received multiple Daytime Emmy nominations for best talk show host for her work on `The View,` winning in 2003 and 2009. She has also received  multiple Primetime Emmy nominations for her specials, winning in 1983. She also won a Daytime Emmy in 1975 for `Today` and shared a News and Documentary Emmy for her work at ABC on coverage of the turn of the millennium, Variety reported.


(With inputs from ANI)