Whipple was born to George Carroll Whipple Jr., an advertising and publishing executive and Joe Ann Feeley. Through his father, he is a descendant of
John Whipple, an early settler of the
Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Senator
Daniel Webster, Massachusetts founding father
William Whipple, and fellow signers of the
United States Declaration of Independence Charles Carroll of Carrollton and
Stephen Hopkins. His sister is conservationist
Allison Whipple Rockefeller, daughter-in-law of
Rodman Rockefeller, a son of former Vice President
Nelson Rockefeller. Whipple ran campaign for town supervisor of his hometown,
Kent, New York, as a 14-year old. He graduated from
The Choate School and received his B.A. from
Columbia College and J.D. from
Columbia Law School. He was president of the secret society
St. Anthony Hall at Columbia. He also studied at
St Peter's College, Oxford and
New York University. He joined Epstein Becker Green in 2015. In 1994, Whipple also became a correspondent for
NY1 and began making twice-weekly celebrity reports. == Personal life ==