A.J. Benza is the host of E! Entertainment Television's successful series Mysteries & Scandals, which has been airing since March 1998.

As a child, Brooklyn-born and Long Island-reared Benza set his sights on becoming a writer and an actor. To achieve these goals, he studied both acting and journalism at Long Island's C.W. Post University. Shortly after leaving college, Benza started his career in journalism as an intern for the suburban New York daily newspaper Newsday, where he eventually worked as a sportswriter for eight years. In 1992, Benza moved to the New York Daily News as a columnist, writing the daily "Hot Copy" and "Downtown" columns until he left in 1997.

Benza's onscreen experience includes roles in feature films including, Ransom, The Deli, Chump Change, P.S. Your Cat Is Dead and Diary of a Sex Addict.

Benza is the author of numerous articles for such magazines as George, Playboy, Talk, Cosmopolitan and Manhattan File. In May 2001, Miramax/Talk Books published Benza's autobiography Fame: Ain't It a Bitch--Confessions of a Reformed Gossip Columnist.

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