Rick Leventhal Profile
Rick Leventhal is an American anchor and reporter, who was a senior correspondent for Fox News Channel from June 1997 to June 2021. Additionally, before joining Fox, he spent 10 years in Local news, reporting and anchoring.
Rick Leventhal Age
Leventhal is 63 years old as of 2023. He was born on 24th January 1960 in Christian County, Kentucky, United States of America. Additionally, he celebrates his birthday on the 24th of January every year.
Rick Leventhal Height
He stands at an average height. However, information about his weight will be updated when available.
Rick Leventhal Family
Leventhal is the younger son of Dr. Allan Leventhal, a retired psychologist in Silver Spring, Maryland, and Carol Leventhal, the retired director of Greenbelt Cares in Greenbelt, Maryland. He is the second of three siblings. He has an older brother, Scott Leventhal (born 1958), and a sister, Leigh (born 1963). Moreover, he completed his high school education at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring in 1978.
Rick Leventhal Wife
Leventhal was married to Penny Daniels, who was an on-air reporter for WSVN-TV in Miami and WFLD-TV in Chicago. The duo later divorced. The duo is blessed with two daughters. Leventhal later eloped with Beth Shak; they tied the knot on 9th June 2016 in Las Vegas.
Rick Leventhal Career
Leventhal has traveled to conflict areas almost 20 times, including five times to Iraq, four times to Afghanistan, eight times to Israel (including numerous excursions to the West Bank and Gaza), tours of Albania and Macedonia during the Kosovo War, and two trips to Libya in 2011. Leventhal spent nine weeks in Kuwait and Iraq in 2003 while serving with the 3rd L.A.R. of the US Marine Corps. He advanced across the border and joined the Sinners and Saints of the 2nd Battalion, 23rd Marines. Before the buildings collapsed, he arrived at the World Trade Center as one of the first reporters after the September 11 attacks. Later that year, with the start of the War on Terror, he went to Bahrain and Afghanistan, embedding with Marines at Camp Rhino and Kandahar Airport.
More recently, he offered live coverage of the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the killing of Osama bin Laden, and flooding in Louisiana. Over his 24 years of reporting, he spent a substantial amount of time covering the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill and has been sent to other natural disasters, including Katrina, Rita, Andrew, and Hugo. He traveled to Haiti for the disastrous 2010 earthquake and to Vatican City to cover Pope John Paul II’s passing, funeral, and appointment of his successor while being present in person. For The Miracle on the Hudson and later, Captain “Sully” Sullenberger’s return to flight. He also recently took a ride in an F-15 with the Massachusetts Air National Guard
Rick Leventhal Salary
He has an estimated annual salary of $30,000 to $80,000 from his career.
Rick Leventhal Net Worth
Leventhal has an estimated annual Net worth of $ 1 million to $5 million earned from his career as an Anchor and reporter.
Rick Leventhal Social Media Platforms
Leventhal is very active on his Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook pages. He has 57.5k followers on Twitter, 69.3k followers on Instagram, and 11k followers on Facebook.