Sally Lowenthal (born February 25, 1935), better known as Sally Jessy
Raphaël, is an American former tabloid talk show host known for her
program Sally (originally titled The Sally Jessy Raphaël
Show).Lowenthal was born in 1935 in Easton, Pennsylvania and graduated
from Easton Area High School. She also spent time in San Juan, Puerto
Rico, where her father, Jesse Lowenthal, was in the rum exporting
business and her mother, Zelda Lowenthal (aka Dede Lowry), ran an art
gallery. Sally has a younger brother, Steven Lowenthal.She spent some
of her teenage years in Scarsdale, New York, where one of her first
media jobs was at the local AM radio station, WFAS. The station had a
program by and for junior high school students and Raphaël read the
news. She attended Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, and the University of Puerto Rico in San Juan. Raphaël
studied acting under the tutelage of Sanford Meisner at New York
City’s Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre.Following her
graduation from Columbia University, she became a news correspondent,
covering Central America for the Associated Press and United Press
International, thanks in large part to her ability to speak both
English and Spanish fluently. She also got considerable experience in
the media in Puerto Rico, where she worked in both radio and
televisionâ€"one of her jobs was doing a TV cooking show. It was while
working in radio that she met the man who became her second husband,
Karl Soderlund, who was the general manager of a radio station that
hired her. After he was fired, the two left Puerto Rico to work in
Miami, Florida. It was while Raphaël was on the air as a radio
announcer in Miami that she met and became friends with talk show host
Larry King.
Raphaël, is an American former tabloid talk show host known for her
program Sally (originally titled The Sally Jessy Raphaël
Show).Lowenthal was born in 1935 in Easton, Pennsylvania and graduated
from Easton Area High School. She also spent time in San Juan, Puerto
Rico, where her father, Jesse Lowenthal, was in the rum exporting
business and her mother, Zelda Lowenthal (aka Dede Lowry), ran an art
gallery. Sally has a younger brother, Steven Lowenthal.She spent some
of her teenage years in Scarsdale, New York, where one of her first
media jobs was at the local AM radio station, WFAS. The station had a
program by and for junior high school students and Raphaël read the
news. She attended Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, and the University of Puerto Rico in San Juan. Raphaël
studied acting under the tutelage of Sanford Meisner at New York
City’s Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre.Following her
graduation from Columbia University, she became a news correspondent,
covering Central America for the Associated Press and United Press
International, thanks in large part to her ability to speak both
English and Spanish fluently. She also got considerable experience in
the media in Puerto Rico, where she worked in both radio and
televisionâ€"one of her jobs was doing a TV cooking show. It was while
working in radio that she met the man who became her second husband,
Karl Soderlund, who was the general manager of a radio station that
hired her. After he was fired, the two left Puerto Rico to work in
Miami, Florida. It was while Raphaël was on the air as a radio
announcer in Miami that she met and became friends with talk show host
Larry King.
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