The stiff-jawed, thoroughly plasticized legal expert hosts On the Record with Greta Van Susteren on the Fox News Channel, and is also a heavy-hitting member of the Church of Scientology and a pal of Sarah Palin's. That's three strikes, Greta.

The daughter of a Wisconsin judge, Van Susteren moved to Washington, D.C. in the late '70s to attend Georgetown Law. After marrying fellow trial attorney John Coale in the late '80s, she joined his notorious ambulance-chasing law firm (Coale was nicknamed "Bhopal Coale" for zipping off to India to sign up new clients following the 1984 Union Carbide Corp. poison gas leak that killed more than 2,000 people.)

Van Susteren didn't become a household name until stepped into the spotlight covering the William Kennedy Smith trial for CNN in 1991, and became unavoidable during the O.J. Simpson trial a few years later. She went on to host CNN shows like The Point with Greta Van Susteren and Burden of Proof,. In 2002, reportedly frustrated with playing second fiddle to Paula Zahn, she jumped ship and moved to New York to join Fox News. The tabloids had a field day with the many changes Van Susteren made to her appearance before her Fox debut, which included a face lift, blepharoplasty (eye job), and dental implants. She now hosts On the Record with Greta Van Susteren from 10-11 p.m. on weeknights.

Coale is Van Susteren's first husband. (She's his third wife.) In 2006, the couple purchased a 1,582-square-foot apartment on 48th and Broadway, with a view of Times Square, mete steps away from Scientology's New York HQ. The couple now splits their time between NYC, Washington, DC, and Clearwater, Fla., which is where Scientology's "spiritual mecca" is located.

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