{{Short description|American journalist (1964–2023)}} {{Infobox person | image = | name = Felicia Taylor | imagesize = | caption = |birth_name=Felicia Rodrica Sturt Taylor | birth_date = {{birth date|mf=yes|1964|8|28}} | birth_place = [[New York City, New York]], U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|2023|09|08|1964|8|28}} | death_place = [[Palm Beach, Florida]], U.S. | occupation = Anchor-correspondent | years_active = 1998–2023 | networth = | website = | spouse = {{plainlist| * {{marriage|Charles Beall Schuster|25 March 1995|end=div.}} * {{marriage|Peter Gottsegen|November 2021|<!-- Omission per Template:Marriage instructions -->}} }} | parents = [[Rod Taylor]]<br>Mary Hilem | family = [[Arthur Rubloff]] (stepfather) }} '''Felicia Rodrica Sturt Taylor''' (August 28, 1964 – September 8, 2023) was an American anchor-correspondent who worked for [[CNN International]]'s ''World Business Today'', and contributed to the Business Updates unit for CNN. She was the co-host of [[Retirement Living TV]]'s ''Daily Cafe'' until November 2009.
==Biography== Felicia Taylor was the daughter of Australian-born actor [[Rod Taylor]]<ref name=NYTRubloffShottWed>{{Cite web|last= |first= |authorlink= |title=Weddings; Mary H. Rubloff, Lewis M. Schott |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=September 4, 1994 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/04/style/weddings-mary-h-rubloff-lewis-m-schott.html |accessdate=}}</ref> and his second wife, fashion model Mary Hilem.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonlife.com/issues/2005-05/aroundtown/|title=Washington Life Magazine: May 2005: Around Town|website=www.washingtonlife.com}}</ref> After her parents divorced, her mother married Chicago real estate developer [[Arthur Rubloff]], who adopted Felicia.<ref name=NYTRubloffShottWed /><ref>{{Cite web|last= |first= |authorlink= |title=A Day In The Life of a Socialite|publisher=[[The Palm Beach Post]]|date=January 10, 1990 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84944877/the-palm-beach-post/ |accessdate=|quote=Felicia's father was actor Rod Taylor. Rubloff had met him on a blind date while living in California, but the marriage only lasted a few years. When she married Arthur Rubloff (whom she also met on a blind date) in 1980, Rubloff adopted Felicia.}}</ref> In 1986, Rubloff died and her mother married Florida real estate developer Lewis M. Schott in 1994.<ref name=NYTRubloffShottWed /><ref>{{Cite web|last= |first= |authorlink= |title=Lewis Schott |work=The New York Times|date=February 26, 2017|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?pid=184253995 |accessdate=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last= |first= |authorlink= |title= Mary Schott |publisher=[[Palm Beach Post]]|date=March 10, 2009 |url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/palmbeachpost/obituary.aspx?n=Mary-Schott&pid=125007098 |accessdate=}}</ref> Her stepsister, Victoria (née Schott) de Rothschild, is the second and former wife of British financier [[Evelyn Robert de Rothschild|Sir Evelyn de Rothschild]]. A graduate (BA) of [[Northwestern University]], Taylor was a business news anchor and a correspondent for CNN International, and CNBC. Prior to CNBC, she was weekend anchor on [[WNBC-TV]] in New York. She joined WNBC in 1998 and left in September 2006. Before WNBC, Taylor worked at the [[Financial News Network]], ''Financial Times TV'' in London.
==Personal life and death== On March 25, 1995, Taylor married Charles Beall Schuster, a bond salesman.<ref name=NYTRubloffShottWed /> They later divorced. In November 2021, she married Peter Gottsegen, a founder of CAI Private Equity, and former General Partner of Salomon Brothers, who survived her.
Taylor died in [[Palm Beach, Florida]], on September 8, 2023, at the age of 59.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/story/entertainment/society/2023/09/08/felicia-taylor-former-cnn-cnbc-correspondent-dies-at-59/70799877007/|title=Felicia Taylor, former CNN, CNBC business correspondent, dies at 59|website=Palm Beach Daily News}}</ref>
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