Katie Couric is engaged: Who's the guy?
Katie Couric is getting married, her publicist confirmed Tuesday. John Molner, a financier and Couric's boyfriend of two years, gave her a diamond ring over the weekend in East Hampton.
Katie Couric attends the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit with then-boyfriend John Molner, May 6, 2013. Couric and Molner are now engaged, her spokesman confirmed Tuesday.
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Katie Couric is getting married to her financier boyfriend John Molner.
Couric's spokesman Matthew Hiltzik confirmed the engagement Tuesday morning following a report by People magazine.
Molner gave 56-year-old Couric, the former host of "Today," a diamond ring over the weekend in East Hampton. Molner, 50, is a partner at investment firm Brown Brothers Harriman, who oversees mergers and acquisitions advisory work for the firm's corporate clients.
The couple have dated for nearly two years.
Couric's husband Jay Monahan died in 1998 from colon cancer. She is the mother of two daughters, now 21 and 17.
Her talk show, "Katie," starts its second season on Monday.
Couric said on her Twitter page: "Yes it's true! So touched by all the kind Tweets & warm wishes-thank you! A great end to the summer & looking fwd to seeing you all Monday!!"