Madeline O’Reilly – Bio, Profile & Facts About Bill O’Reilly’s Daughter

Recently, there has been a litany of dramas, both professionally and personally, that have turned the life of popular TV show host and reporter Bill O’Reilly upside down. Because of this, a lot of light has not only shone on him, but also on his entire family who have gone through tumultuous times. While a lot is known about the former Fox News Channel man and his wife, Maureen E. McPhilmy, not much is known about his daughter, Madeline O’Reilly, although she was also a bit in the news.. Here’s everything you need to know about her.

Profile and biography of Madeline O’Reilly

Madeline O’Reilly was born in 1996 in the United States, as the first daughter of Bill O’Reilly and Maureen E. McPhilmy. For the next seven years, she remained the couple’s only child. However, in 2003, she had a brother, Spenser O’Reilley, who was also born to her parents.

Even before her brother was born, Madeline had always stayed out of public life. With the birth of her brother, nothing changed as the children were continually raised away from the public eye. For this reason, personal information about him, as well as details about his education and other things, is not available in the public domain.

Everything seemed normal with her family until 2010, when her parents’ marriage began to fail. The marriage ended in a nasty divorce filled with hate, accusations and counter-accusations.

Reports showed his father accused his mother of being adulterous although he did not say whether he ever caught her cheating on him. Moreover, the TV presenter told his daughter that her mother was an adulteress even before the divorce.

Madeline O’Reilly later revealed in court when her parents’ divorce case was pending, she watched as her father pulled her mother down by the hair. She also revealed that whenever her father got angry, he would storm out of the house and go kick the trees.

After the divorce, Bill and his former wife continued a custody battle that would last a long time. At first, the two were granted joint custody of the children, but it was later reported that he lost custody of the children. As of 2018, the pair were still engaged in several legal battles that had been dragging on for so many years.

Facts About Bill O’Reilly’s Daughter

1. Madeline was born two years after her parents married

In 1992, Bill, whose career as a reporter had already taken good shape, met a public relations executive named Maureen E. McPhilmy. The two dated for the next two years before getting married in New York in 1996 at St. Brigid’s Parish of Westbury. Two years later, their union produced a daughter, Madeline O’Reilly.

2. She was raised in the Catholic faith

Madeline was raised in a pretty much devout Catholic family, where both her parents practiced the faith. Following her parents’ very complicated divorce, her father, Bill, contacted the Catholic Church to forbid her from receiving Holy Communion. Her reason was that she was a divorced woman who had remarried. More so, he claimed that she was telling the children that what she was doing was right in the sight of God. However, the church only reprimanded her in writing.

3. She sees her dad as an absent dad

In a court transcript published byVarious Media, it was stated that Madeline O’Reilly described her father as an absentee father, which was quite ironic for many people as Bill had always been critical of failing parenting in the black community in his TV show.

4. Net worth

When it comes to her net worth, there is nothing that is known about it or even what she does for a living. It is, however, known that Bill O’Reilly has an estimated net worth of $85 million. Once described as the king of Cable News, Bill has lost a lot of money over the years due to the many legal cases he has had to fight, including that of sexual harassment.