Who is Andrea Peyser? All about New York Post journalist Martha Stewart claimed was dead in her Netflix documentary
Martha Stewart allegedly made a false statement about Andrea Peyser in her recent documentary.
In Martha, Stewart's Netflix documentary released on October 30, the 83-year-old called Peyser "the New York Post" lady who wrote "horrible" things about her in 2004, when the model-turned-businesswoman was on trial for her insider trading scheme, adding:
"But she is dead now, thank goodness... And nobody has to put up with the crap she was writing all the time."
Andrea's column about Stewart 20 years ago was titled Arrogant billionaire played the ultimate fool, in which the journalist called her an "ill-mannered dominatrix," adding that she felt "positively over-the-moon ecstatic" about Martha "going down."
Andrea Peyser lives in Brooklyn with her family
Andrea Peyser was born in Manhattan and moved with her parents to Bayside, Queens when she was young. Peyser attended the Bayside High School and enrolled in the University of New York following her graduation, where she studied journalism.
Andrea's first job was at the Associated Press in Albany, followed by the AP Bureau in Charleston. The journalist also worked at CNN in Atlanta and Tampa Tribune in Florida before taking up the role of a reporter at the New York Post. In 1993, Peyser became a columnist at the Post.
Andrea Peyser has won several awards for her journalism throughout her career and was also named The Columnist of the Year 2004-05. Other awards the journalist has earned are from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, the New York State Associated Press, and the Newswomen's Club of New York.
Beyond journalism, Andrea has also authored two books in her career - Mother Love, Deadly Love: The Susan Smith Murders in 1995, and Celebutards: The Hollywood Hacks, Limousine Liberals and Pandering Politicians Who Are Destroying America in 2009.
Andrea Peyser is married to Mark Philips, with whom she has a daughter, named Eliza. Her family is settled in Brooklyn, with Peyser visiting Queens frequently.
Peyser responded to Stewart's false claim in a recent column
Roughly a week after the Martha Stewart documentary's release, Andrea Peyser responded to it in her column, correcting the 83-year-old by telling her she's alive.
Calling Stewart "the domestic Dominatrix" in her recent column - published on Friday, November 7 - Peyser claimed that the businesswoman was still "fantasizing" about her "grisly demise" two decades later. The journalist went on to add:
"Long after she and her insider tip-giving stockbroker Peter Bacanovic were convicted of securities fraud and other crimes, then lying about it to federal investigators, her thoughts are not with her family, her pink-slipped employees, her mini-menagerie of animals, or even her own miserable self. She’s focused her fury at me."
Elsewhere in her column, Andrea also talked about Stewart's documentary, calling it the story of her life, crimes, grudges, vendetta, "hissy fits," and "remorseless behavior".
Peyser, who appeared to have watched the documentary, also brought up a scene where Martha was filmed berating her kitchen staff for using a knife that was too small to cut an orange, calling her "petty" and "abusive" for it.
Andrea also alleged that the businesswoman had played an innocent victim in her documentary, comparing her plight to that of Nelson Mandela. Lastly, the journalist revealed that she wasn't worried, angry, or threatened by Stewart considering her dead, but only felt "overwhelmingly sad in the face of Martha's bitterness."
According to a New York Post article published on November 17, Stewart said after reading the headline of Peyser's recent column:
"So, that will probably cause more people to watch my documentary."
Martha Stewart's Netflix documentary received a 6.8/10 rating from Rotten Tomatoes, with 87% of the reviews being positive.