Deborah Copaken

Deborah Copaken (born March 11, 1966) is an American author and photojournalist. The New York Times described her in 2000 as "a media powerbabe." 2Personal life She was born Deborah Elizabeth Copaken in Boston, Massachusetts, the daughter of Marjorie Ann (née Schwartz) and Richard Daniel Copaken. Her father was a White House Fellow and lawyer. She has three siblings: Jennifer, Laura and Julie. She grew up in Maryland, first in Adelphi, and then from 1970 in Potomac.Copaken attended Harvard University. During her senior year and for a while afterward, as she wrote in The New York Times, she "fell victim to a number of random assaults and muggings. A few were quite scary: a couple with guns, another with a knockout blow to the head, others with unwanted tongues shoved deep in the back of my throat." Copaken has also recounted that five attempts were made to rape her during her time at Harvard, and that she was raped on the night before her graduation. In Slate.com, she wrote, "I was attacked multiple times in my early twenties."As an adult, Copaken has lived in Paris and Moscow before moving to New York City in 1992. She and former spouse Paul Kogan have three children: son Jacob Kogan (born 1995), daughter Sasha Kogan (born 1997), and son Leo Kogan (born 2006). Jacob is an acto