Valerie Plame

Valerie Plame is best known as an American writer and a former officer of the Central Intelligence Agency. She was a part of their team from 1986 to 2002. Plame is also a member of the Democratic Party. In 2020, Plame contested unsuccessfully as a New Mexico candidate for the congressional district. She lost the election to Teresa Lager Fernandez.

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Biography and Early Life

Valerie Elise Plame was born in Elmendorf Air Force Base, Anchorage, Alaska. Her parents are Diane (maiden name McClintock) and Samuel Plame. According to Plame herself, her paternal grandfather was a Jew and a rabbi’s son. He had moved to the USA from Ukraine, and the family’s surname used to be Plamevotski. However, other Plame family members were of Protestant faith, and that was the religion that Plame herself had followed as a child. She realized much later as an adult that she was of Jewish descent because of her paternal grandfather.

Age, Height, Weight & Body Measurement

So, how old is Valerie Plame in 2021 and what is her height and weight? Well, Valerie Plame’s age is 57 years old as of today’s date 2nd August 2021 having been born on 13 August 1963. Though, she is 5′ 6″ in feet and inches and 167 cm in Centimetres tall, she weighs about 132 lbs in Pound and 60kg in Kilograms. Her eye color is Blue and hair color is Blonde.

Education

Valerie Plame was a student at Lower Moreland High School, located in Huntington Valley, Pennsylvania. She graduated from high school in the year 1981. Four years later, Plame graduated from Pennsylvania State University and has a bachelor’s degree in advertising. As a student of Penn State University, Plame was a member of the sorority Pi Beta Phi. She was also a contributor to the business section of the student newspaper Daily Collegian.

Personal Life: Dating, Boyfriends, Husband, Kids

Plame married her first husband, Todd Sesler in the year she graduated from Penn State college, that is, in 1985. The marriage, however, did not work, and both Sesler and Plame ended things in the year 1989, just four years later. She later met her second husband, Joseph Charles Wilson, during her job in the Central Intelligence Agency.

Wilson was a former Ambassador and had a successful diplomatic career. They were married in the year 1998 on 3rd April. Wilson has written in his memoir that he met Plame whilst being separated from his second wife, Jacqueline. Jacqueline and Wilson divorced after twelve years so that he could marry Valerie. The couple, however, ended things, and they divorced in the year 2017, and Wilson died two years later in 2019.

Valerie has two children with Wilson: a son and a daughter. They are Trevor Rolph Wilson and Samantha Finell Diana Wilson

With the help of a ghostwriter, Valerie was able to finish writing a memoir relating to the incidents of her life. A feature film Fair Game was produced by Plame and her husband in the year 2010, which was based on the memoirs.

Before Plame’s job as an officer of the Central Intelligence Agency was revealed, her family used to live in Washington, DC, in the Palisades. After her resignation, they moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Plame provided consultation at the Santa Fe Institute until the year 2016.

Is Valerie Plame Lesbian?

Valerie Plame identifies as a straight white woman.

Professional Career

Post her graduation, Plame moved to Washington DC and worked at a store that sold clothes. That was when she awaited her upcoming results regarding the CIA application. After officer training classes, Plame was accepted as an officer at the Central Intelligence Agency. The agency refuses to give an exact date for Plame’s career as an officer, but it can be roughly estimated to last from 1985 to the year 2002. Plame’s job as a CIA officer is classified information, and hence the details are murky.

Plame is said to have worked for the Central Intelligence Agency in the capacity of a non-official cover, in the cities of Athens and Brussels. Even though she used her own name, she was working under various professional covers in order to gather intel. She has worked as a junior consular officer as well as an energy analyst for a company called Brewster Jennings & Associates.

The CIA had later admitted that the company was actually a front for several of their confidential dealings as well as investigations. Following the Persian Gulf War in the year 1991, Plame was sent to the London School of Economics and later to the College of Europe. Wilson and Plame have been embroiled in controversy with the CIA when Plame’s job was revealed by a journalist.

Plame is also a writer and is said to have a knack for writing spy novels, which is understandable considering her tumultuous career. She has also collaborated with a ghostwriter and the publishing house Simon and Schuster on her memoir.

Awards

As such, Valerie Plame has not been conferred with awards. If she did receive any as an officer of the Central Intelligence Agency, it is classified information and has not been revealed to the public.

Net Worth, Salary & Earnings of Valerie Plame in 2021

As of 2021, Valerie’s net worth is around $5 million and her primary source of earning is her career as a writer and her work as an officer of the Central Intelligence Agency. She set up a funding page on Twitter in the year 2017, which would help to remove Donald Trump from the network. She is clearly shifting to politics at the moment.

Some Interesting Facts You Need To Know

She worked as a CIA officer and gathered intelligence for the CIA

Her name was leaked out in a scandal, and she had to resign from the CIA

Plame and her husband sued the director of CIA for interfering with her memoir.

Valerie Plame is a public figure who, despite the controversy, has continued to make a name for herself. She began an alternative career after her resignation. Her two novels are Blowback and Burned, and her memoir is Fair Game. She also has ambitions to be a congresswoman and is running for that position.