Born Rebecca Lee Gomez, the daughter of Nadine Ramirez and Leandro Olmos Gomez, Diamond graduated in 1991 from the
University of Maryland, College Park, where she majored in
Broadcast Journalism. She worked as an anchor/reporter for
Lifetime Television and as a business writer for
The Associated Press. She also worked as a reporter/anchor for local affiliate television stations in
McAllen, Texas;
Phoenix, Arizona; and
San Diego, California. She joined Fox News as a news update anchor when the network was launched in 1996. She hosted the
Fox Business Network TV show
Happy Hour which was broadcast live from the Bull & Bear bar in the
Waldorf Astoria Hotel in
New York City.
Happy Hour aired at 5pm Eastern on the
Fox Business Network; the final episode was aired on June 4, 2010. Diamond now appears as a contributor on other
Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network. Diamond has a fan following on
Facebook. In 2008, she married Brett Edward Diamond in a
Roman Catholic ceremony at
St. Vincent Ferrer Church in
Manhattan presided over by Fox news contributor Father
Jonathan Morris. She was born in
San Jose, California and currently lives in
New Jersey. In 2011, Diamond sued
Bill O'Reilly for
sexual harassment after her contract with Fox Business was not renewed. They settled, and O'Reilly personally paid the amount. == References ==