Danuta Rylko Soderman

Danuta Pfeiffer (née Rylko, formerly Soderman) (born February 22, 1949) is an author and retired journalist and broadcaster best known for co-hosting The 700 Club from 1983 to 1988 with Pat Robertson and Ben Kinchlow.

Early life Born in England after World War II to a father who was a Polish emigre and sculptor and an English mother who was a nurse, Danuta Rylko moved to the United States as a child, with her family, shortly after her birth. She grew up in northern Michigan, near Bellaire.

The 700 Club Rylko was hired by the Christian Broadcasting Network after becoming a born-again Christian. Initially hired to be CBN's foreign correspondent in Jerusalem, she was instead made co-host of The 700 Club days after arriving at CBN's headquarters in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

She was fired by Robertson in 1988 after he learned that her then-husband, Kai Soderman, had previously been twice married and divorced.

After CBN She ceased being a Christian as a result of her experiences at CBN and returned to San Diego where she hosted Danuta Time, on KSDO radio in the late 1980s and was also a news commentator on KUSI-TV in the early 1990s. She moved to Colorado, where she was a columnist for the Colorado Eagle, before moving to Oregon in 1994 to be closer to her family. There she met and married her second husband, Robin Pfeiffer, a winery owner, in 1994. The couple sold their vineyard in 2023 and closed their winery so they could spend more time with their family and traveling.

In 2016, she supported Bernie Sanders's presidential campaign.