Allison Weiner is an Emmy Award–winning producer and former entertainment industry litigator whose journalism career has spanned top newsrooms and high-profile crime coverage. A graduate of Columbia University and the University of Southern California Law, she began as a writer for Los Angeles Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Vanity Fair, and Buzz, securing exclusives with figures such as James Gandolfini and Paul Reubens and covering major trials including those of Winona Ryder, Robert Blake, and Michael Jackson.

Weiner went on to write for The New York Times, profiling legendary Hollywood attorney Bert Fields and breaking key stories on the federal investigation into private investigator Anthony Pellicano and the influence of powerful Los Angeles figures. Her refusal to reveal sources even prompted an FBI inquiry.

She later contributed to The Huffington Post, Deadline Hollywood, The Daily Beast, and The Los Angeles Times, and spent six years producing for ABC’s 20/20, earning an Emmy for Diane Sawyer’s “Escape from a House of Horrors.” She now serves as a senior investigative producer at News Nation.