Julia Allison

Julia Allison (born February 28, 1982) is an American journalist, currently contributing to a weekly social column entitled "The Dating Life". The column appears in AM New York, a daily newspaper with a 325,000 circulation among Manhattanites. She has a monthly column in Co-ed magazine and has written for a variety of magazines, including Cosmopolitan, New York, Teen Vogue, Men's Health, Seventeen, and Capitol File. During college, Allison (under her last name "Baugher") wrote the collegiate dating column "Sex on the Hilltop," for Georgetown University's newspaper, The Hoya. Also, during college, Allison interned for Illinois Congressman Ron Kirk. In addition, she sometimes is a guest contributor on Fox News.

Allison was born "Julia Allison Baugher," but shortened her name after college. She is originally from Wilmette, a northern suburb of Chicago, Illinois, where she attended New Trier High School.

She graduated from Georgetown University in 2004 and now lives in New York City.

Controversy

 * An accusation of plagiarizing an article led to Allison being fired from Georgetown's Hoya.
 * Allison was also romantically linked with former Tennessee Congressman Harold Ford, Jr., a Democrat, in 2002. Her relationship was used as an attack ad by the Republican Party in Ford's unsuccessful run for United States Senate in 2006 . In response, she blogged   extensively on the experience, as well as revealed the relationship in a July 2006 Cosmopolitian article.
 * One of Allison's 2006 New Year's resolutions was "to have a threesome."
 * She has been banned from posting on Gawker, a popular social blog in New York City.