Pop Stars, Pageants & Presidents: How An Email Trumped My Life

"Rob Goldstone may look like a bit player in this story, but he is an avatar of the new power brokers in the age of politics as entertainment."

 — New York Times

"Rob Goldstone, the Playboy Who Could Bring Down Trump." — Daily Beast

"[Goldstone] finds himself cast as a Falstaffian figure in the ongoing saga of the first family's uncomfortably close relations with Russia." 

— The Guardian

"That the scandal is now so clear, and Trump, Jr.'s, complicity so undeniable, is due to the directness with which Goldstone described the situation." 

— New Yorker

 "Rob Goldstone is a colorful figure...a bon vivant who posts self-deprecating videos on social media, hobnobs with New York socialites and sometimes uses bluster and hyperbole to open doors." 

—The Washington Post

British-born Rob Goldstone wrote what has been called "the most famous email in history.” The email, written to the son of Donald Trump, later became the cornerstone of the RussiaGate investigation and made Goldstone a household name — on both sides of the Atlantic and beyond.

A former journalist, publicist and music manager, Goldstone recounts his experience in his autobiographical debut book Pop Stars, Pageants & Presidents: How An Email Trumped My Life, and has appeared on scores of top TV, radio and print media outlets around the world including the Washington Post, the CNN, NPR, the Australian, the BBC, the Guardian, among others.

Pop Stars, Pageants & Presidents takes a close look at what led to the writing of the now-infamous Trump Tower email, an email that would become worldwide  news and a turning point in the investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 US election.

From Manchester to Manhattan to Moscow, the memoir takes the reader through Goldstone’s early days in the North of England to his life as celebrity journalist and pop music publicist to a world of billionaires, Russian oligarchs, and the future president of the United States.

Journey with Rob as he escorts Donald Trump around Moscow during the 2013 Miss Universe pageant, and then take an inside look at what really went on inside the Trump Tower meeting between a Russian lawyer, Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort and the president’s son.

Goldstone makes his home in London, UK.