Dating & Relationship status

In June 2015, McPhee pleaded not guilty to charges of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol, resisting arrest and assault and battery on a police officer. She was arrested on Interstate 93 in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, after being observed driving her Mercedes erratically by a Massachusetts State Trooper. On January 29, 2016, McPhee’s lawyer claimed the state trooper had assaulted her and that she was hurt worse in the altercation.

In June 2015, she began hosting a three-hour mid-afternoon radio show on WMEX AM in Boston. Her radio show ended in 2017 when the WMEX radio station stopped broadcasting.

She contributed to the anthology, Masters of True Crime (Prometheus Books 2012).

On January 13, 2011, McPhee joined WRKO as its 1 to 3 p.m. radio host of The Michele McPhee Show. She left WRKO after a seven-month stay, but returned to the station on June 11, 2012 to occupy a new four-hour midday slot on the station’s schedule.

In August 2011, McPhee was hired as a general assignment reporter for WCVB Channel 5 in Boston. News producer Andrew Vrees, in a news release, described McPhee as “an aggressive and well-connected journalist … whose track record speaks for itself.”

Mob Over Miami was set to become a feature film titled “UnMade Man.” In January 2011, Lifetime aired a television movie based on A Date With Death, starring William Baldwin.

McPhee was a story consultant for the Lifetime made-for-TV movie based on the Clark Rockefeller case that aired in March 2010.

In 2008, the news magazines Dateline NBC and Primetime Live interviewed McPhee for their stories about Neil Entwistle.

From December 2007 to November 2010, McPhee hosted an evening talk show on WTKK. Her contract was not renewed, because of creative differences, and was immediately pulled from the air.

McPhee returned to Boston in 2004 and became a weekly columnist and police bureau chief for the Boston Herald until late 2007. She continued writing a weekly column for the paper and also freelanced news stories.

In 2002, McPhee was named the first female police bureau chief for the New York Daily News. She won the 2002 New York Society of the Silurians’ Feature News Award for an article titled “The Days After” about the September 11, 2001 attack. In response to a story she wrote about police suspicions of a local judge, McPhee received death threats through an anonymously written letter in January 2003. In her capacity as bureau chief, McPhee also appeared in other media for expertise on New York City police issues. In 2003, McPhee participated in a debate about the police shooting of Amadou Diallo alongside attorney Anthony H. Gair on the NPR program The Tavis Smiley Show, guest hosted that day by Tony Cox. In 2004, McPhee appeared on the Fox News Channel program The O’Reilly Factor to discuss an issue with a local September 11 charity.

McPhee began her journalism career with The Boston Globe in 1993. In 1996, she transferred to the New York Daily News and became the chief of the newspaper police bureau in 2002. In 2004, McPhee became a columnist with the Boston Herald. McPhee began her radio career with an evening talk show on WTKK in 2007. In 2010, McPhee began hosting her own afternoon talk show on WRKO and started guest hosting The Howie Carr Show on WRKO.

In September 1993, McPhee became a contributing reporter to The Boston Globe. By July 1995, McPhee became a correspondent with the Globe. In December 1996, McPhee joined the New York Daily News, writing her first article for the newspaper for the Christmas Eve edition, “No Bail For Alleged Gotti Heir”.

McPhee grew up in Massachusetts and is of Italian American descent. She graduated from East Boston High School in 1988 and the University of Massachusetts, Boston in 1993.

Michele R. McPhee (born April 8, 1970) is an American author, talk radio host, and five-time Emmy nominated investigative journalist from [[Boston, McPhee also worked as columnist and correspondent to the Boston Herald, was the New England reporter for ABC News, and a general assignment reporter with the television station WCVB. She now lives in Los Angeles writing screenplays, most recently for Showtime’s City On A Hill and has a HBO series in development based on her Newsweek cover story.