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Jessica Pressler
Jessica Pressler
	Pressler in 2017
Born	1977 or 1978 (age 46–47); Marblehead, Massachusetts, U.S.
Education	Temple University
Occupation(s)	Journalist, magazine writer
Spouses	; Benjamin Wallace (m. 2008; div. 2022) ; Josh Uhl (m. 2022)
Website	jessicapressler.com

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Jessica Pressler (born 1977/78) is an American journalist and contributing editor at New York. Her 2015 article "The Hustlers at Scores" was nominated for a National Magazine Award and was later made into a feature film called Hustlers in 2019.^[2] She also wrote a story about Anna Sorokin that was later developed into the mini-series Inventing Anna released by Netflix in 2022.

Early life

Her mother, Judith Pressler, was a guidance counselor at Swampscott High School and her father, Michael Pressler, was a professor of English and the director of the interdisciplinary arts program at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania.^[1]

Career

Pressler became the co-editor of New York magazine's Daily Intel blog in 2007^[3] after working as a staff writer at Philadelphia magazine and as a freelancer for celebrity magazines.^[4] At New York, she has written extensively on "the culture of wealth and money,"^[5] interviewing Wall Street CEOs such as Goldman Sachs's Lloyd Blankfein and AIG's Bob Benmosche about their firms' involvement in the 2007–2008 financial crisis. Pressler has profiled New York personalities Lynn Tilton and Anthony Scaramucci.^[6]^[7] Her feature articles about the feud between J. Christopher Burch and Tory Burch and the culture of Silicon Valley startups have appeared in The Best Business Writing.^[8]

In 2014, Pressler wrote a story about a Stuyvesant High School senior who had allegedly made $72 million trading stocks,^[9] which was later revealed to be not true.^[10]^[11] Bloomberg News rescinded a job offer made to her for their investigative unit after the student confessed he had "made the whole thing up."^[12]^[13]

On December 28, 2015, Pressler published an article for New York called "The Hustlers at Scores",^[14] a story about strippers who manipulated money out of their clients. She was nominated for a National Magazine Award in 2016.^[15] A team of producers that included Will Ferrell "snapped up" the film rights in February 2016.^[16] The story was adapted into a film by Gloria Sanchez Productions^[17]^[18] titled Hustlers; it was released in 2019^[2] and stars Keke Palmer, Constance Wu and Jennifer Lopez, with Julia Stiles portraying "Elizabeth", a fictionalized version of Pressler.^[19]

In 2018, she wrote a story about New York City high society grifter Anna Sorokin,^[20]^[4] which was developed into the mini-series Inventing Anna by Netflix and Shonda Rhimes.^[21]^[22]^[23]^[24] Pressler's book, Bad Influence: Money, Lies, Power, and the World that Created Anna Delvey, was scheduled for publication in 2022, but as of 2024 has yet to have a release date.^[25]

Pressler has also written for GQ, Elle, Esquire and Smithsonian.^[4] She was a regular Gossip Girl episode recap writer online for Vulture, and later made a cameo appearance as a New York editor in one of its episodes.^[26]^[27]

Personal life

In 2008, she married Benjamin Wallace, a freelance magazine writer and author.^[1] They later divorced, and she is now married to Josh Uhl.^[28]

Select articles

"What Does It Take for a Female Tycoon to Get Noticed Around Here" (April 8, 2011) for New York
"His. Hers." (February 12, 2012) for New York
"AIG CEO Bob Benmosche Resigns, for Real This Time" (June 10, 2014) for Intelligencer
"Because a Stuyvesant Senior Made Millions Picking Stocks. His Hedge Fund Opens As Soon As He Turns 18." (December 14, 2014) for New York
"The Hustlers at Scores" (December 28, 2015) for New York
"Long on Trump" (January 23, 2017) for New York
"Gossip Girl Forever" (September 22, 2017) for Vulture
"Maybe She Had So Much Money She Just Lost Track of It" (May 28, 2018) for New York

Interviews

Michael Lewis: "They Should Have Broken Up the Banks" (Dec 1, 2015) in Vulture

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Jessica Pressler, Benjamin Wallace". The New York Times. April 27, 2008. Archived from the original on March 12, 2022. Retrieved May 12, 2022.
^ ^a ^b Erbland, Kate (September 16, 2019). "'Hustlers': 5 Lessons Hollywood Can Learn from the Surprise Hit". Indiewire.
^ Pressler, Jessica (October 28, 2011). "Jessica Pressler on New York, "millennium girls" and the love story that wasn't". Nieman Storyboard (Interview). Interviewed by Andrea Pitzer. Nieman Foundation for Journalism.
^ ^a ^b ^c Pressler, Jessica (June 24, 2018). "Full transcript: Jessica Pressler talks 'lady grifters' + Ken Auletta on the 'frenemies' of the ad business on Recode Media". Recode (Interview). Interviewed by Peter Kafka. Vox.
^ Pompeo, Joe (December 8, 2014). "Jessica Pressler leaves New York for Bloomberg News". Politico.
^ Carney, John (April 11, 2011). "Lynn Tilton: The Wildest Woman in American Business". CNBC. (excerpt of article) That's from Jessica Pressler's extraordinary article in New York Magazine. Go read the whole thing.
^ Kilgore, Ed (July 21, 2017). "Instead of a Reassuring Senior Communications Director, Trump Chose the Mooch". Intelligencer. We don't know their specific grounds for opposing the appointment, but one factor could be the Mooch's manifest lack of gravitas, as evidenced by this revealing glimpse of Scaramucci's view of Washington provided in January by Jessica Pressler: (excerpt of article)
^
Pressler's contributions to Best Business Writing editions: "Jessica Pressler (New York) delves into the personal and professional rivalry between Tory and Christopher Burch, former spouses now competing to dominate the fashion world."
- The Best Business Writing 2012. Columbia University Press. June 2012. ISBN 9780231504331.
- "The Best Business Writing 2013". Columbia University Press.
^ Pressler, Jessica (December 14, 2014). "12. Because a Stuyvesant Senior Made Millions Picking Stocks. His Hedge Fund Opens As Soon As He Turns 18". NYMag.com. Retrieved April 3, 2022.
^ Pompeo, Joe (December 19, 2014). "Jessica Pressler staying at New York". Politico.
^ Eugenios, Jillian (December 19, 2014). "Reporter behind story of $72 million teen trader stays at NY Mag". CNN.
^ Kurson, Ken (December 15, 2014). "EXCLUSIVE: New York Mag's Boy Genius Investor Made It All Up". The New York Observer.
^ Calderone, Michael (December 20, 2014). "Bloomberg Rescinded Offer To Writer Jessica Pressler After New York Magazine Hoax". HuffPost. New York City.
^ Pressler, Jessica (December 28, 2015). "The Hustlers at Scores: The Ex-Strippers Who Stole From (Mostly) Rich Men and Gave to, Well, Themselves". The Cut. Archived from the original on December 21, 2018. Retrieved September 22, 2019.
^ Arana, Gabriel (January 14, 2016). "New York Mag Leads Pack With 9 National Magazine Award Nominations". HuffPost.
^ Ramos, Dino-Ray (February 16, 2016). "Adam McKay And Will Ferrell Snap Up Rights To 'The Hustlers at Scores'". The Tracking Board. Retrieved September 18, 2019. The Big Short writer-director Adam McKay is preparing to take on the underbelly of financial intrigue from a slightly different angle. Sources confirm that McKay and partner Will Ferrell have picked up the film rights to Jessica Pressler's New York Magazine article, THE HUSTLERS AT SCORES, McKay, Ferrell, and Jessica Elbaum will produce under their Gloria Sanchez Productions.
^ McNary, Dave (May 10, 2016). "Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, Megan Ellison & Annapurna Team on Hustlers at Scores". Variety.
^ Ford, Rebecca (February 29, 2016). "Stripper Robin Hood Story 'The Hustlers at Scores' in the Works at Gloria Sanchez". The Hollywood Reporter. The female-focused TV and film company Gloria Sanchez Productions has acquired the rights and is developing an adaptation of the magazine feature by Jessica Pressler.
^ Zemler, Emily (July 17, 2019). "See Jennifer Lopez, Cardi B Scam Bankers in Trailer for 'Hustlers'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved July 21, 2019.
^ Pressler, Jessica (May 28, 2018). "Maybe She Had So Much Money She Just Lost Track of It". New York – via The Cut.
^ Tolentino, Jia (June 5, 2018). "The Fiends and Folk Heroes of Grifter Season". The New Yorker.
^ Birnbaum, Debra; Otterson, Joe (June 8, 2018). "Shonda Rhimes Sets Anna Delvey Series as First Netflix Project". Variety.
^ Sandberg, Bryn Elise (June 8, 2018). "Shonda Rhimes Sets Anna Delvey Series as First Netflix Project". The Hollywood Reporter.
^ Cusumano, Katherine (June 9, 2018). "Shonda Rhimes Is Making a Netflix Series About Fashion's Favorite New Scammer". W.
^ Pressler, Jessica (August 2, 2022), Google Books Bad Influence, Simon and Schuster, ISBN 9781982151539
^ Fox, Jesse David (October 16, 2012). "Watch Our Gossip Girl Recapper's GG Cameo". Vulture. Retrieved August 28, 2018.
^ Prudom, Laura (December 18, 2012). "'Gossip Girl' And The Rise of the Recap". HuffPost.
^ Hurtado, Alexandra (March 5, 2022). "Who Is the Real-Life Journalist from Inventing Anna?". Parade. Retrieved July 25, 2022.

External links

[The_New_York_Times-1] "Jessica Pressler, Benjamin Wallace". The New York Times. April 27, 2008. Archived from the original on March 12, 2022. Retrieved May 12, 2022.

[indiewire_2019-2] Erbland, Kate (September 16, 2019). "'Hustlers': 5 Lessons Hollywood Can Learn from the Surprise Hit". Indiewire.

[3] Pressler, Jessica (October 28, 2011). "Jessica Pressler on New York, "millennium girls" and the love story that wasn't". Nieman Storyboard (Interview). Interviewed by Andrea Pitzer. Nieman Foundation for Journalism.

[vox-4] Pressler, Jessica (June 24, 2018). "Full transcript: Jessica Pressler talks 'lady grifters' + Ken Auletta on the 'frenemies' of the ad business on Recode Media". Recode (Interview). Interviewed by Peter Kafka. Vox.

[5] Pompeo, Joe (December 8, 2014). "Jessica Pressler leaves New York for Bloomberg News". Politico.

[6] Carney, John (April 11, 2011). "Lynn Tilton: The Wildest Woman in American Business". CNBC. (excerpt of article) That's from Jessica Pressler's extraordinary article in New York Magazine. Go read the whole thing.

[7] Kilgore, Ed (July 21, 2017). "Instead of a Reassuring Senior Communications Director, Trump Chose the Mooch". Intelligencer. We don't know their specific grounds for opposing the appointment, but one factor could be the Mooch's manifest lack of gravitas, as evidenced by this revealing glimpse of Scaramucci's view of Washington provided in January by Jessica Pressler: (excerpt of article)

[8] Pressler's contributions to Best Business Writing editions: "Jessica Pressler (New York) delves into the personal and professional rivalry between Tory and Christopher Burch, former spouses now competing to dominate the fashion world."
The Best Business Writing 2012. Columbia University Press. June 2012. ISBN 9780231504331.

"The Best Business Writing 2013". Columbia University Press.

[9] The Best Business Writing 2012. Columbia University Press. June 2012. ISBN 9780231504331.

[10] "The Best Business Writing 2013". Columbia University Press.

[9] Pressler, Jessica (December 14, 2014). "12. Because a Stuyvesant Senior Made Millions Picking Stocks. His Hedge Fund Opens As Soon As He Turns 18". NYMag.com. Retrieved April 3, 2022.

[10] Pompeo, Joe (December 19, 2014). "Jessica Pressler staying at New York". Politico.

[11] Eugenios, Jillian (December 19, 2014). "Reporter behind story of $72 million teen trader stays at NY Mag". CNN.

[12] Kurson, Ken (December 15, 2014). "EXCLUSIVE: New York Mag's Boy Genius Investor Made It All Up". The New York Observer.

[13] Calderone, Michael (December 20, 2014). "Bloomberg Rescinded Offer To Writer Jessica Pressler After New York Magazine Hoax". HuffPost. New York City.

[14] Pressler, Jessica (December 28, 2015). "The Hustlers at Scores: The Ex-Strippers Who Stole From (Mostly) Rich Men and Gave to, Well, Themselves". The Cut. Archived from the original on December 21, 2018. Retrieved September 22, 2019.

[15] Arana, Gabriel (January 14, 2016). "New York Mag Leads Pack With 9 National Magazine Award Nominations". HuffPost.

[tracking-board2016-02-16-16] Ramos, Dino-Ray (February 16, 2016). "Adam McKay And Will Ferrell Snap Up Rights To 'The Hustlers at Scores'". The Tracking Board. Retrieved September 18, 2019. The Big Short writer-director Adam McKay is preparing to take on the underbelly of financial intrigue from a slightly different angle. Sources confirm that McKay and partner Will Ferrell have picked up the film rights to Jessica Pressler's New York Magazine article, THE HUSTLERS AT SCORES, McKay, Ferrell, and Jessica Elbaum will produce under their Gloria Sanchez Productions.

[17] McNary, Dave (May 10, 2016). "Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, Megan Ellison & Annapurna Team on Hustlers at Scores". Variety.

[18] Ford, Rebecca (February 29, 2016). "Stripper Robin Hood Story 'The Hustlers at Scores' in the Works at Gloria Sanchez". The Hollywood Reporter. The female-focused TV and film company Gloria Sanchez Productions has acquired the rights and is developing an adaptation of the magazine feature by Jessica Pressler.

[19] Zemler, Emily (July 17, 2019). "See Jennifer Lopez, Cardi B Scam Bankers in Trailer for 'Hustlers'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved July 21, 2019.

[20] Pressler, Jessica (May 28, 2018). "Maybe She Had So Much Money She Just Lost Track of It". New York – via The Cut.

[21] Tolentino, Jia (June 5, 2018). "The Fiends and Folk Heroes of Grifter Season". The New Yorker.

[22] Birnbaum, Debra; Otterson, Joe (June 8, 2018). "Shonda Rhimes Sets Anna Delvey Series as First Netflix Project". Variety.

[23] Sandberg, Bryn Elise (June 8, 2018). "Shonda Rhimes Sets Anna Delvey Series as First Netflix Project". The Hollywood Reporter.

[24] Cusumano, Katherine (June 9, 2018). "Shonda Rhimes Is Making a Netflix Series About Fashion's Favorite New Scammer". W.

[25] Pressler, Jessica (August 2, 2022), Google Books Bad Influence, Simon and Schuster, ISBN 9781982151539

[26] Fox, Jesse David (October 16, 2012). "Watch Our Gossip Girl Recapper's GG Cameo". Vulture. Retrieved August 28, 2018.

[27] Prudom, Laura (December 18, 2012). "'Gossip Girl' And The Rise of the Recap". HuffPost.

[28] Hurtado, Alexandra (March 5, 2022). "Who Is the Real-Life Journalist from Inventing Anna?". Parade. Retrieved July 25, 2022.

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+'''Jessica Pressler''' (born 1977/78) is an American journalist and contributing editor at ''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]''. Her 2015 article "The Hustlers at Scores" was nominated for a [[National Magazine Awards|National Magazine Award]] and was later made into a feature film called ''[[Hustlers (film)|Hustlers]]'' in 2019.<ref name="indiewire 2019">{{Cite news |last1=Erbland |first1=Kate |date=September 16, 2019 |title='Hustlers': 5 Lessons Hollywood Can Learn from the Surprise Hit |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2019/09/hustlers-hollywood-lessons-box-office-success-1202174018/ |work=[[Indiewire]]}}</ref> She also wrote a story about [[Anna Sorokin]] that was later developed into the mini-series ''[[Inventing Anna]]'' released by [[Netflix]] in 2022.
 ==Early life==
-Her mother, Judith Pressler, was a [[guidance counselor]] at [[Swampscott High School]] and her father, Michael Pressler,  was a professor of English and the director of the [[interdisciplinary arts]] program at [[Shippensburg University]] in Pennsylvania.<ref name="The New York Times">{{Cite web|title=Jessica Pressler, Benjamin Wallace|url-access=subscription|url-status=live|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/fashion/weddings/27pressler.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220312222026/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/fashion/weddings/27pressler.html|archive-date=March 22, 2022|date=April 27, 2008|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=May 12, 2022}}</ref>
+Her mother, Judith Pressler, was a [[guidance counselor]] at [[Swampscott, Massachusetts#Education|Swampscott High School]] and her father, Michael Pressler, was a professor of English and the director of the [[interdisciplinary arts]] program at [[Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania]].<ref name="The New York Times">{{Cite web|title=Jessica Pressler, Benjamin Wallace|url-access=subscription|url-status=live|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/fashion/weddings/27pressler.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220312222026/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/fashion/weddings/27pressler.html|archive-date=March 12, 2022|date=April 27, 2008|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=May 12, 2022}}</ref>
 ==Career==
-Pressler became the co-editor of ''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]'' magazine's ''[[Intelligencer (website)|Daily Intel]]'' blog in 2007<ref>{{Cite interview |last=Pressler |first=Jessica |interviewer=Andrea Pitzer |title=Jessica Pressler on New York, "millennium girls" and the love story that wasn't |url=http://niemanstoryboard.org/stories/jessica-pressler-new-york-diane-passage-interview/ |work=Nieman Storyboard |publisher=[[Nieman Foundation for Journalism]] |date=October 28, 2011}}</ref> after working as a staff writer at  ''[[Philadelphia (magazine)|Philadelphia]]'' magazine and as a freelancer for celebrity magazines.<ref name="vox" /> At ''New York'', she has written extensively on "the culture of wealth and money,"<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.politico.com/media/story/2014/12/jessica-pressler-leaves-new-york-for-bloomberg-news-003189 |title=Jessica Pressler leaves New York for Bloomberg News |last=Pompeo |first=Joe |date=December 8, 2014 |work=[[Politico]]}}</ref> interviewing [[Wall Street]] CEOs such as Goldman Sachs [[Lloyd Blankfein]] and AIG CEO [[Robert Benmosche]] about their firms’ involvement in the [[2008 financial crisis]]. Pressler has profiled New York personalities [[Lynn Tilton]] and [[Anthony Scaramucci]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.cnbc.com/id/42535654 |title=Lynn Tilton: The Wildest Woman in American Business |last=Carney |first=John |date=April 11, 2011 |publisher=[[CNBC]] |quote=(excerpt of article) That's from Jessica Pressler's extraordinary article in New York Magazine. Go read the whole thing.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/scaramucci-not-a-reassuring-choice-for-trump-comms-director.html |title=Instead of a Reassuring Senior Communications Director, Trump Chose the Mooch |last=Kilgore |first=Ed |date=July 21, 2017 |work=[[Intelligencer (website)|Intelligencer]] |quote=We don't know their specific grounds for opposing the appointment, but one factor could be the Mooch's manifest lack of gravitas, as evidenced by this revealing glimpse of Scaramucci's view of Washington provided in January by Jessica Pressler: (excerpt of article)}}</ref>  Her feature articles about the feud between [[Chris Burch]] and [[Tory Burch]] and the culture of [[Silicon Valley]] startups have appeared in ''The Best Business Writing'' editions.<ref>Pressler's contributions to ''Best Business Writing'' editions: "Jessica Pressler (New York) delves into the personal and professional rivalry between Tory and Christopher Burch, former spouses now competing to dominate the fashion world."
+Pressler became the co-editor of ''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]'' magazine's ''[[Intelligencer (website)|Daily Intel]]'' blog in 2007<ref>{{Cite interview |last=Pressler |first=Jessica |interviewer=Andrea Pitzer |title=Jessica Pressler on New York, "millennium girls" and the love story that wasn't |url=http://niemanstoryboard.org/stories/jessica-pressler-new-york-diane-passage-interview/ |work=Nieman Storyboard |publisher=[[Nieman Foundation for Journalism]] |date=October 28, 2011}}</ref> after working as a staff writer at ''[[Philadelphia (magazine)|Philadelphia]]'' magazine and as a freelancer for celebrity magazines.<ref name="vox" /> At ''New York'', she has written extensively on "the culture of wealth and money,"<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.politico.com/media/story/2014/12/jessica-pressler-leaves-new-york-for-bloomberg-news-003189 |title=Jessica Pressler leaves New York for Bloomberg News |last=Pompeo |first=Joe |date=December 8, 2014 |work=[[Politico]]}}</ref> interviewing [[Wall Street]] CEOs such as [[Goldman Sachs]]'s [[Lloyd Blankfein]] and [[American International Group|AIG]]'s [[Bob Benmosche]] about their firms' involvement in the [[2007–2008 financial crisis]]. Pressler has profiled New York personalities [[Lynn Tilton]] and [[Anthony Scaramucci]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2011/04/11/lynn-tilton-the-wildest-woman-in-american-business.html |title=Lynn Tilton: The Wildest Woman in American Business |last=Carney |first=John |date=April 11, 2011 |publisher=[[CNBC]] |quote=(excerpt of article) That's from Jessica Pressler's extraordinary article in New York Magazine. Go read the whole thing.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/scaramucci-not-a-reassuring-choice-for-trump-comms-director.html |title=Instead of a Reassuring Senior Communications Director, Trump Chose the Mooch |last=Kilgore |first=Ed |date=July 21, 2017 |work=[[Intelligencer (website)|Intelligencer]] |quote=We don't know their specific grounds for opposing the appointment, but one factor could be the Mooch's manifest lack of gravitas, as evidenced by this revealing glimpse of Scaramucci's view of Washington provided in January by Jessica Pressler: (excerpt of article)}}</ref> Her feature articles about the feud between [[J. Christopher Burch]] and [[Tory Burch]] and the culture of [[Silicon Valley]] startups have appeared in ''The Best Business Writing''.<ref>Pressler's contributions to ''Best Business Writing'' editions: "Jessica Pressler (New York) delves into the personal and professional rivalry between Tory and Christopher Burch, former spouses now competing to dominate the fashion world."
-* {{Cite book |url=https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-best-business-writing-2012/9780231160735 |title=The Best Business Writing 2012 |website=[[Columbia University Press]]|date=June 2012 |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=9780231504331 }}
+* {{Cite book |url=https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-best-business-writing-2012/9780231160735 |title=The Best Business Writing 2012 |date=June 2012 |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=9780231504331 }}
 * {{cite news | url=https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-best-business-writing-2013/9780231160759 | title=The Best Business Writing 2013 | work=[[Columbia University Press]] }}</ref>
-In 2014, Pressler wrote a story about a Stuyvesant High School senior who had allegedly made $72&nbsp;million trading stocks,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pressler |first=Jessica |date=December 14, 2014 |title=12. Because a Stuyvesant Senior Made Millions Picking Stocks. His Hedge Fund Opens As Soon As He Turns 18. |url=http://nymag.com/news/articles/reasonstoloveny/2014/mohammed-islam-stock-trading |access-date=April 3, 2022 |website=NYMag.com}}</ref> which was later revealed to be not true.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.politico.com/media/story/2014/12/jessica-pressler-staying-at-new-york-003244 |title=Jessica Pressler staying at New York |last=Pompeo |first=Joe |date=December 19, 2014 |work=[[Politico]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://money.cnn.com/2014/12/19/media/jessica-pressler-ny-mag/index.html |title=Reporter behind story of $72&nbsp;million teen trader stays at NY Mag |last=Eugenios |first=Jillian |date=December 19, 2014 |publisher=[[CNN]]}}</ref> [[Bloomberg News]] rescinded a job offer made to her for their investigative unit after the student confessed he had "made the whole thing up."<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://observer.com/2014/12/exclusive-new-york-mags-boy-genius-investor-made-it-all-up/ |title=EXCLUSIVE: New York Mag's Boy Genius Investor Made It All Up |last=Kurson |first=Ken |date=December 15, 2014 |work=[[The New York Observer]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/19/bloomberg-jessica-pressler_n_6348348.html |title=Bloomberg Rescinded Offer To Writer Jessica Pressler After New York Magazine Hoax |last=Calderone |first=Michael |date=December 20, 2014 |work=[[HuffPost]] |location=New York City}}</ref>
+In 2014, Pressler wrote a story about a [[Stuyvesant High School]] senior who had allegedly made $72&nbsp;million trading stocks,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pressler |first=Jessica |date=December 14, 2014 |title=12. Because a Stuyvesant Senior Made Millions Picking Stocks. His Hedge Fund Opens As Soon As He Turns 18. |url=http://nymag.com/news/articles/reasonstoloveny/2014/mohammed-islam-stock-trading |access-date=April 3, 2022 |website=NYMag.com}}</ref> which was later revealed to be not true.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.politico.com/media/story/2014/12/jessica-pressler-staying-at-new-york-003244 |title=Jessica Pressler staying at New York |last=Pompeo |first=Joe |date=December 19, 2014 |work=[[Politico]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://money.cnn.com/2014/12/19/media/jessica-pressler-ny-mag/index.html |title=Reporter behind story of $72&nbsp;million teen trader stays at NY Mag |last=Eugenios |first=Jillian |date=December 19, 2014 |publisher=[[CNN]]}}</ref> [[Bloomberg News]] rescinded a job offer made to her for their investigative unit after the student confessed he had "made the whole thing up."<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://observer.com/2014/12/exclusive-new-york-mags-boy-genius-investor-made-it-all-up/ |title=EXCLUSIVE: New York Mag's Boy Genius Investor Made It All Up |last=Kurson |first=Ken |date=December 15, 2014 |work=[[The New York Observer]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/19/bloomberg-jessica-pressler_n_6348348.html |title=Bloomberg Rescinded Offer To Writer Jessica Pressler After New York Magazine Hoax |last=Calderone |first=Michael |date=December 20, 2014 |work=[[HuffPost]] |location=New York City}}</ref>
-On December 28, 2015, Pressler published an article for ''New York'' called "The Hustlers at Scores",<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Pressler |first=Jessica |title=The Hustlers at Scores: The Ex-Strippers Who Stole From (Mostly) Rich Men and Gave to, Well, Themselves |url=http://www.thecut.com/2015/12/robin-hood-strippers-scores-c-v-r.html |magazine=The Cut |date=December 28, 2015 |access-date=September 22, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181221104047/https://www.thecut.com/2015/12/robin-hood-strippers-scores-c-v-r.html |archive-date=December 21, 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref> a story about strippers who manipulated money out of their clients. She was nominated for a [[National Magazine Award]] in 2016.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/national-magazine-awards-nominations_us_569811f0e4b0b4eb759dcec4 | work = [[HuffPost]] | first=Gabriel | last=Arana <!-- senior media editor at HuffPost --> | title=New York Mag Leads Pack With 9 National Magazine Award Nominations | date=January 14, 2016}}</ref> A team of producers that included [[Will Ferrell]] "snapped up" the film rights in February 2016.<ref name=tracking-board2016-02-16/> The story was adapted into a film by [[Gloria Sanchez Productions]]<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://variety.com/2016/film/news/will-ferrell-adam-mckay-hustlers-at-scores-megan-ellison-1201770317/ |title=Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, Megan Ellison & Annapurna Team on Hustlers at Scores |last=McNary |first=Dave |date=May 10, 2016 |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/stripper-robin-hood-story-hustlers-857429 |title=Stripper Robin Hood Story 'The Hustlers at Scores' in the Works at Gloria Sanchez |last=Ford |first=Rebecca |date=February 29, 2016 |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |quote=The female-focused TV and film company Gloria Sanchez Productions has acquired the rights and is developing an adaptation of the magazine feature by Jessica Pressler.}}</ref> titled ''[[Hustlers (2019 film)|Hustlers]]''; it stars [[Keke Palmer]], [[Constance Wu]] and [[Jennifer Lopez]], with [[Julia Stiles]] portraying "Elizabeth", a fictionalized version of Pressler.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/see-jennifer-lopez-cardi-b-trailer-hustlers-859958/ |title=See Jennifer Lopez, Cardi B Scam Bankers in Trailer for 'Hustlers' |last=Zemler |first=Emily |date=July 17, 2019 |work=[[Rolling Stone (magazine)|Rolling Stone]] |access-date=July 21, 2019}}</ref> The film was released in 2019.<ref name="indiewire 2019">{{Cite news|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2019/09/hustlers-hollywood-lessons-box-office-success-1202174018/|title='Hustlers': 5 Lessons Hollywood Can Learn from the Surprise Hit|first1=Kate|last1=Erbland| work=[[Indiewire]] | date=September 16, 2019}}</ref>
+On December 28, 2015, Pressler published an article for ''New York'' called "The Hustlers at Scores",<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Pressler |first=Jessica |title=The Hustlers at Scores: The Ex-Strippers Who Stole From (Mostly) Rich Men and Gave to, Well, Themselves |url=http://www.thecut.com/2015/12/robin-hood-strippers-scores-c-v-r.html |magazine=The Cut |date=December 28, 2015 |access-date=September 22, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181221104047/https://www.thecut.com/2015/12/robin-hood-strippers-scores-c-v-r.html |archive-date=December 21, 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref> a story about strippers who manipulated money out of their clients. She was nominated for a [[National Magazine Award]] in 2016.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/national-magazine-awards-nominations_us_569811f0e4b0b4eb759dcec4 | work = [[HuffPost]] | first=Gabriel | last=Arana <!-- senior media editor at HuffPost --> | title=New York Mag Leads Pack With 9 National Magazine Award Nominations | date=January 14, 2016}}</ref> A team of producers that included [[Will Ferrell]] "snapped up" the film rights in February 2016.<ref name=tracking-board2016-02-16/> The story was adapted into a film by [[Gloria Sanchez Productions]]<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://variety.com/2016/film/news/will-ferrell-adam-mckay-hustlers-at-scores-megan-ellison-1201770317/ |title=Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, Megan Ellison & Annapurna Team on Hustlers at Scores |last=McNary |first=Dave |date=May 10, 2016 |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/stripper-robin-hood-story-hustlers-857429 |title=Stripper Robin Hood Story 'The Hustlers at Scores' in the Works at Gloria Sanchez |last=Ford |first=Rebecca |date=February 29, 2016 |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |quote=The female-focused TV and film company Gloria Sanchez Productions has acquired the rights and is developing an adaptation of the magazine feature by Jessica Pressler.}}</ref> titled ''[[Hustlers (film)|Hustlers]]''; it was released in 2019<ref name="indiewire 2019" /> and stars [[Keke Palmer]], [[Constance Wu]] and [[Jennifer Lopez]], with [[Julia Stiles]] portraying "Elizabeth", a fictionalized version of Pressler.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/see-jennifer-lopez-cardi-b-trailer-hustlers-859958/ |title=See Jennifer Lopez, Cardi B Scam Bankers in Trailer for 'Hustlers' |last=Zemler |first=Emily |date=July 17, 2019 |work=[[Rolling Stone (magazine)|Rolling Stone]] |access-date=July 21, 2019}}</ref>
-In 2018, she wrote a story about New York City high society grifter [[Anna Sorokin]],<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Pressler |first=Jessica |title=Maybe She Had So Much Money She Just Lost Track of It |url=https://www.thecut.com/2018/05/how-anna-delvey-tricked-new-york.html |date=May 28, 2018 |magazine=[[New York (magazine)|New York]] |via=[[New York (magazine)#Digital expansion and blogs|The Cut]]}}</ref><ref name="vox">{{Cite interview |last=Pressler |first=Jessica |interviewer=Peter Kafka |title=Full transcript: Jessica Pressler talks ‘lady grifters’ + Ken Auletta on the ‘frenemies’ of the ad business on Recode Media |url=https://www.vox.com/2018/6/24/17494900/jessica-pressler-grifters-ken-auletta-frenemies-advertising-business-recode-media |work=[[Recode]] |publisher=[[Vox (website)|Vox]] |publication-date=June 24, 2018}}</ref><!--detailed interview --> which was developed into the mini-series ''[[Inventing Anna]]'' by [[Netflix]] and [[Shonda Rhimes]].<ref>{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-fiends-and-the-folk-heroes-of-grifter-season |title=The Fiends and Folk Heroes of Grifter Season |last=Tolentino |first=Jia |date=June 5, 2018 |magazine=[[The New Yorker]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/shonda-rhimes-netflix-anna-delvey-1202838348/ |title=Shonda Rhimes Sets Anna Delvey Series as First Netflix Project |last1=Birnbaum |first1=Debra |date=June 8, 2018 |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |last2=Otterson |first2=Joe}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/shonda-rhimes-sets-anna-delvey-series-as-first-netflix-project-1118617 |title=Shonda Rhimes Sets Anna Delvey Series as First Netflix Project |last=Sandberg |first=Bryn Elise |date=June 8, 2018 |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]}}</ref><!-- yes, identically named article but different content --><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.wmagazine.com/story/shonda-rhimes-anna-delvey-netflix-series |title=Shonda Rhimes Is Making a Netflix Series About Fashion's Favorite New Scammer |last=Cusumano |first=Katherine |date=June 9, 2018 |work=[[W (magazine)|W]]}}</ref> Pressler's book, "Bad Influence: Money, Lies, Power, and the World that Created Anna Delvey", is scheduled for publication in 2022.<ref>{{Citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kcBdEAAAQBAJ |title=Google Books Bad Influence|isbn=9781982151539|last1=Pressler|first1=Jessica|date=August 2, 2022}}</ref>
+In 2018, she wrote a story about New York City high society grifter [[Anna Sorokin]],<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Pressler |first=Jessica |title=Maybe She Had So Much Money She Just Lost Track of It |url=https://www.thecut.com/2018/05/how-anna-delvey-tricked-new-york.html |date=May 28, 2018 |magazine=[[New York (magazine)|New York]] |via=[[New York (magazine)#Digital|The Cut]]}}</ref><ref name="vox">{{Cite interview |last=Pressler |first=Jessica |interviewer=Peter Kafka |title=Full transcript: Jessica Pressler talks 'lady grifters' + Ken Auletta on the 'frenemies' of the ad business on Recode Media |url=https://www.vox.com/2018/6/24/17494900/jessica-pressler-grifters-ken-auletta-frenemies-advertising-business-recode-media |work=[[Recode]] |publisher=[[Vox (website)|Vox]] |publication-date=June 24, 2018}}</ref><!--detailed interview --> which was developed into the mini-series ''[[Inventing Anna]]'' by [[Netflix]] and [[Shonda Rhimes]].<ref>{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-fiends-and-the-folk-heroes-of-grifter-season |title=The Fiends and Folk Heroes of Grifter Season |last=Tolentino |first=Jia |author-link=Jia Tolentino |date=June 5, 2018 |magazine=[[The New Yorker]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/shonda-rhimes-netflix-anna-delvey-1202838348/ |title=Shonda Rhimes Sets Anna Delvey Series as First Netflix Project |last1=Birnbaum |first1=Debra |date=June 8, 2018 |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |last2=Otterson |first2=Joe}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/shonda-rhimes-sets-anna-delvey-series-as-first-netflix-project-1118617 |title=Shonda Rhimes Sets Anna Delvey Series as First Netflix Project |last=Sandberg |first=Bryn Elise |date=June 8, 2018 |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]}}</ref><!-- yes, identically named article but different content --><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.wmagazine.com/story/shonda-rhimes-anna-delvey-netflix-series |title=Shonda Rhimes Is Making a Netflix Series About Fashion's Favorite New Scammer |last=Cusumano |first=Katherine |date=June 9, 2018 |work=[[W (magazine)|W]]}}</ref> Pressler's book, ''Bad Influence: Money, Lies, Power, and the World that Created Anna Delvey'', was scheduled for publication in 2022, but as of 2024 has yet to have a release date.<ref>{{Citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kcBdEAAAQBAJ |title=Google Books Bad Influence|isbn=9781982151539|last1=Pressler|first1=Jessica|date=August 2, 2022|publisher=Simon and Schuster }}</ref>
-Pressler has also written for ''[[GQ (magazine)|GQ]]'',  ''[[Elle (magazine)|Elle]]'',  ''[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]'' and  ''[[Smithsonian (magazine)|Smithsonian]]''.<ref name="vox" /><!--<ref name="pubs"/> --> She was a regular ''[[Gossip Girl]]'' episode recap writer for ''[[Vulture (website)|Vulture]]'' website, and made an appearance as a [[New York (magazine)|''New York'' magazine]] editor in one of its episodes.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.vulture.com/2012/10/our-gossip-girl-recapper-appeared-on-gossip-girl-jessica-pressler.html |title=Watch Our Gossip Girl Recapper's GG Cameo |last=Fox |first=Jesse David |date=October 16, 2012 |access-date=August 28, 2018 |website=[[Vulture (website)|Vulture]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gossip-girl-recaps-did-it-create-a-trend_b_2313944|title='Gossip Girl' And The Rise of the Recap|first1=Laura|last1=Prudom <!-- associate editor huffpost --> | date=December 18, 2012|work=[[HuffPost]]}}</ref>
+Pressler has also written for ''[[GQ (magazine)|GQ]]'', ''[[Elle (magazine)|Elle]]'', ''[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]'' and ''[[Smithsonian (magazine)|Smithsonian]]''.<ref name="vox" /><!--<ref name="pubs"/> --> She was a regular ''[[Gossip Girl]]'' episode recap writer online for ''[[Vulture (website)|Vulture]]'', and later made a cameo appearance as a ''New York'' editor in one of its episodes.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.vulture.com/2012/10/our-gossip-girl-recapper-appeared-on-gossip-girl-jessica-pressler.html |title=Watch Our Gossip Girl Recapper's GG Cameo |last=Fox |first=Jesse David |date=October 16, 2012 |access-date=August 28, 2018 |website=[[Vulture (website)|Vulture]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gossip-girl-recaps-did-it-create-a-trend_b_2313944|title='Gossip Girl' And The Rise of the Recap|first1=Laura|last1=Prudom <!-- associate editor huffpost --> | date=December 18, 2012|work=[[HuffPost]]}}</ref>
 ==Personal life==
 In 2008, she married [[Benjamin Wallace (writer)|Benjamin Wallace]], a [[freelance]] magazine writer and author.<ref name="The New York Times"/> They later divorced, and she is now married to Josh Uhl.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://parade.com/1345829/alexandra-hurtado/inventing-anna-real-journalist-jessica-pressler/ |title=Who Is the Real-Life Journalist from Inventing Anna? |last=Hurtado |first=Alexandra |date=March 5, 2022 |work=[[Parade (magazine)|Parade]] |access-date=July 25, 2022}}</ref>
+== Select articles ==
+{{Incomplete list|date=December 2024}}
+* "What Does It Take for a Female Tycoon to Get Noticed Around Here" (April 8, 2011) for ''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]''
+* "His. Hers." (February 12, 2012) for ''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]''
+* "AIG CEO Bob Benmosche Resigns, for Real This Time" (June 10, 2014) for ''[[New York (magazine)|Intelligencer]]''
+* "Because a Stuyvesant Senior Made Millions Picking Stocks. His Hedge Fund Opens As Soon As He Turns 18." (December 14, 2014) for ''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]''
+* "The Hustlers at Scores" (December 28, 2015) for ''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]''
+* "Long on Trump" (January 23, 2017) for ''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]''
+* "Gossip Girl Forever" (September 22, 2017) for ''[[Vulture (website)|Vulture]]''
+* "Maybe She Had So Much Money She Just Lost Track of It" (May 28, 2018) for ''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]''
+=== Interviews ===
+* [[Michael Lewis]]: "They Should Have Broken Up the Banks" (Dec 1, 2015) in ''[[Vulture (website)|Vulture]]''
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