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Claire Denise Hoffman (born March 5, 1977) is an American journalist, author, and Assistant Professor of Journalism at the University of California, Riverside.

She writes and has written for numerous publications including Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, Condé Nast Portfolio and the Los Angeles Times.

While at the Times, she wrote “Baby Give Me a Kiss,” a profile of Girls Gone Wild mogul Joe Francis. That story, which began with Francis’ assault on Claire and ended with his alleged rape of an 18-year old girl on the back of a roving party bus in Chicago, broke records on the latimes.com websites for the most page views.

Claire has two masters degrees—one in religious studies from the University of Chicago Divinity School and another from the Columbia School of Journalism.

At the start of her career, as a freelance reporter for the New York Times, she contributed reporting to a Pulitzer-prize winning series that investigated fraud and death by the American freight railroads.