Personal Life
She lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband, Andrew Cockburn, a journalist and film producer with whom she has co-authored several books, whom she married in San Francisco in 1977. Together they have three children, Chloe Frances Cockburn (April 3, 1979), film actress Olivia Wilde, and Charles Philip Cockburn (January 31, 1993).
Cockburn has two brothers-in-law, Alexander Cockburn and Patrick Cockburn, who are also journalists, and the mystery writer Sarah Caudwell was her half-sister in law. Her son-in-law was filmmaker Tao Ruspoli, and journalists Laura Flanders and Stephanie Flanders are her half-nieces by marriage, daughters of her half-brother in law Michael Flanders. Her in-laws were Claud Cockburn and Jean Ross.
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