Zoey Tur Biography – Zoey Tur Wiki
Zoey Tur also referred to as Hanna Zoey Tur (born Robert Albert Tur) is an American broadcast reporter and commercial pilot who created Los Angeles News Service with fellow reporter and then-wife Marika Gerrard. Los Angeles News Service was the first to use an AStar helicopter in a major city to cover breaking news and the first to televise a high-speed police chase. Her other major reporting included the attack on Reginald Denny during the 1992 Los Angeles riots and finding the crash site of Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771. Tur was also the first to broadcast O.J. Simpson’s slow-speed chase on June 17, 1994.
As a team, Tur and Gerrard received three Television News Emmy Awards and Edward R. Murrow Awards for broadcast excellence, an Associated Press National Breaking News award, and The National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) Humanitarian Award. In 1991, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) revoked Tur’s pilot’s license for “reckless flying” after a complaint from the Los Angeles City Fire Department. In 1994, a California Superior Court ruled against the Los Angeles Fire Department for suborning perjury in the original FAA action, awarding $550,000 and ruling that “public employees are not immune from liability for malicious prosecution if they instigate the prosecution through fraudulent, corrupt or malicious misrepresentations”.
Tur has been credited with locating seven missing aircraft. In 2007, Tur hosted a documentary series on MSNBC called Why They Run. The show reported on why criminal suspects ran from police and included interviews with those involved in police pursuits. In 2015, Tur appeared in three episodes of Inside Edition on CNN, on TMZ, and on Dr. Drew On Call. In 2016, Tur appeared in several episodes of the miniseries O.J.: Made In America. The series features archival footage as well as Tur’s recollections of covering the 1992 Los Angeles riots in episode 2 and of the June 17, 1994 police chase of O.J. Simpson. Tur dropped out of college at age 18 in 1978.
Zoey Tur Age
She was born Robert Albert Tur on June 8, 1960 in United States. She was born to a Jewish family.
Zoey Tur Partner
In 1980 she married her then-wife Marika Gerrard but their marriage came to an end in 2003. The couple had two children who are now adults.
Zoey Tur Children
She has two children, her daughter Katy Tur, a television anchor and news reporter, and James, a medical student.
Zoey Tur Gender Transitioning
In June 2013, Tur publicly came out as transgender, and in 2014 revealed that she was undergoing hormone replacement therapy. In August 2014, following gender reassignment surgery, she applied to a court to change her name and gender marker from male to female. Reflecting on her transition in a 2017 interview, Tur stated, “What I have is not political. It is a medical condition that was treated. I am cured. I am done. It is not a mental illness. There are differences in the brain.”
In 2017, Tur said in an interview that her daughter Katy had become estranged from her because of her transition. Katy said in response that they “were not on speaking terms for a little while” but that it was not because of the transition.
Zoey Tur Instagram
She is on Instagram as @zoeytur.
