Finke passed away after a prolonged illness on Sunday morning, according to her family.
According to her family, Finke died in Boca Raton, Fla. on Sunday morning after a prolonged illness, as confirmed byFinke grew up in Sands Point on Long Island before graduating from Wellesley College. Her early work included reporting for publications such as Associated Press, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Observer and then New York Magazine before starting Deadline.
The veteran journalist was famous for her tenacious style of reporting and saucy entertainment scoops about celebrities in Hollywood, and was known for often starting her stories with “toldja” if something she was working on was true. Finke left PMC in Nov. 2013, launching her own entertainment news site, NikkiFinke.com. She then launched Hollywood Dementia in 2015, a site with fictional stories written by various entertainment journalists and insiders about the entertainment industry.Finke returned to Deadline in 2016 to celebrate the site’s 10-year anniversary, and wrote that she was “thrilled” the site was still “thriving” a decade on.
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