Phil Bronstein

Bronstein has married four times and his married life has been followed closely by the tabloid media.

On February 14, 1998, he married famous American actress producer, and former fashion model, Sharon Stone. In 2000, the couple adopted a baby boy called Roan Joseph Bronstein. In 2003, the couple separated as Bronstein cited irreconcilable differences as the reason for filing divorce. The divorce was finalized on January 29, 2004, and although initially Bronstein and Stone shared joint custody of Roan, full custody of the latter was given to Bronstein by a judge in 2008.

He suffered an attack by a Komodo dragon at the Los Angeles Zoo in 2001 while on a private tour. Bitten by the dragon on his bare foot, Bronstein had to go through surgery to reattach several tendons in his foot.

Phil Bronstein was born on October 4, 1950, in Atlanta, Georgia, in the US. Not much information is available on his family background or parents.

During his childhood, Bronstein relocated quite often along with his family. He spent his youth mostly in Montreal, Canada, and later settled in California. He enrolled at the University of California, Davis, but did not complete his graduation. He first got the taste of journalism at the University of California. He wrote film reviews for the school paper. .

His first professional job was for the ‘KQED-TV’ in San Francisco, where he joined as a reporter.

In 1980, he was inducted as beat reporter in the daily newspaper, ‘The San Francisco Examiner,’ flagship of the Hearst Corporation chain. For the next eight years, he visited conflict areas across the globe, including the Philippines, El Salvador, Peru, and the Middle East, and reported as a foreign correspondent.

He reported the overthrow of Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos, who ruled the Philippines from 1965 to 1986 as President. This reporting earned him a place as one of the finalists of the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in 1986. He also garnered awards from Media Alliance, World Affairs Council, the Overseas Press Club and the Associated Press for his work in the Philippines.

He was elevated to the position of executive editor by the ‘The San Francisco Examiner’ in 1991. He served the post for almost a decade till 2000.

The brave heart Bronstein once geared himself up in a scuba gear in 1996 to help in capturing an alligator that escaped into a city lake. The police, however, restricted him from getting into such a dangerous operation.