Jessica Pressler

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.

Career Pressler became the co-editor of New York magazine's Daily Intel blog in 2007 after working as a staff writer at Philadelphia magazine and as a freelancer for celebrity magazines. interviewing Wall Street CEOs such as Goldman Sachs's Lloyd Blankfein and AIG's Bob Benmosche about their firms' involvement in the 2008 financial crisis. Pressler has profiled New York personalities Lynn Tilton and Anthony Scaramucci. 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.

In 2014, Pressler wrote a story about a Stuyvesant High School senior who had allegedly made $72 million trading stocks, which was later revealed to be false. Bloomberg News rescinded a job offer made to her for their investigative unit after the student confessed he had "made the whole thing up."

On December 28, 2015, Pressler published an article for New York called "The Hustlers at Scores", a story about strippers who manipulated money out of their clients. She was nominated for a National Magazine Award in 2016. A team of producers that included Will Ferrell "snapped up" the film rights in February 2016. titled Hustlers; it was released in 2019

In 2018, she wrote a story about New York City high society grifter Anna Sorokin, which was developed into the mini-series Inventing Anna by Netflix and Shonda Rhimes. Pressler's book, Bad Influence: Money, Lies, Power, and the World that Created Anna Delvey, was scheduled for publication in 2022, but as of 2026 has yet to have a release date.

Pressler has also written for GQ, Elle, Esquire and Smithsonian.

Personal life In 2008, she married Benjamin Wallace, a freelance magazine writer and author.

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