Timothy McDarrah

Timothy McDarrah (born 1962 as Timothy Swann McDarrah) is a former magazine editor and gossip columnist from New York City who was convicted and imprisoned after a U.S. federal sting operation for soliciting sex with a minor in September 2005.[2]

Timothy McDarrah
Born
Timothy Swann McDarrah

1962 (age 58–59)
Manhattan, New York, U.S.
OccupationGossip columnist, magazine editor
Criminal statusreleased
Parent(s)Fred McDarrah (father) Gloria Swann McDarrah (mother)
Criminal chargeAttempted child enticement[1]
Penalty72 months

Career

McDarrah had a distinguished career was an award-winning journalist. After graduating from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, he joined the New York Post as a columnist, and then editor of "Page Six" gossip column. He then oversaw community weeklies at News Communications and contributed to CourtTV.com, was managing editor at Sporting News, worked as a gossip columnist at the Las Vegas Sun, then at US Weekly. Before his arrest, he co-authored three books with his father, Fred McDarrah, a longtime staff photographer for The Village Voice. The books are Kerouac and Friends: A Beat Generation Album, Gay Pride: Photographs from Stonewall to Today, and Anarchy, Protest & Rebellion.[3]

Arrest

McDarrah was arrested after an investigation by the FBI Crimes Against Children Squad in New York in June 2005 on charges related to solicitation of sex with a 13-year-old. His attorney blamed his client's conduct on an internet addiction.[1]

Conviction

The criminal case was heavily covered by the national media, including entertainment news outlets, because McDarrah, a gossip writer.[4]

He was convicted in December 2006 of one count of attempted enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity after an eight-day jury trial. He was sentenced in April 2007, at age 43, in Manhattan federal court to 72 months in a federal prison for the attempted enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity.[5] He was a Federal inmate at the Loretto Federal Correctional Institution in Pennsylvania. McDarrah was released from prison on March 23, 2012, at age 49, to begin serving a four-year supervised release.[6][7]

Recent

After his release from prison, McDarrah returned to New York.[8]

By 2016, he began Save the Village walking tours of key places in Greenwich Village's social history, using photos made into postcards from his father's photograph archives of the Village.[9]

He edited a retrospective book of his father's photographs titled Fred W. McDarrah: New York Scenes, released by Abrams Books in 2019.[10]

References
  1. "Former Post editor sentenced in child sex sting". New York Daily News. April 20, 2007. Retrieved October 24, 2020.
  2. "Former magazine editor sentenced for U.S. sex crime". Reuters. 2007-04-20. Retrieved 2010-02-06.
  3. "Timothy S McDarrah Books (Used, New, Out-of-Print)". Alibris. Retrieved 2010-02-06.
  4. "'Us Weekly' Staffer Timothy McDarrah Arrested". Gawker.com. Retrieved 2012-10-02.
  5. "McDarrah Sentence" (PDF). Retrieved 2010-02-06.
  6. "Federal Bureau of Prisons". Bop.gov. Retrieved 2010-02-06.
  7. "Latest entertainment and celebrity news from KTRK". KTRK-13 Houston. 2006-12-28. Retrieved 2010-02-06.
  8. Walker, Hunter (26 September 2012). "Would-Be Child Molester Campaigns For His 'Friend' Tom Allon's Mayoral Bid". Observer.
  9. Green, Peter (June 2016). "The Greenwich Village tour guide following in his father's footsteps". Crain's.
  10. "Fred W. McDarrah: New York Scenes". Abrams. September 25, 2018 – via Google Books.
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