Diane Dimond (born November 15, 1952) is an American investigative journalist, author, syndicated columnist, and TV commentator.

She has worked as a correspondent for Hard Copy, Extra, NBC, Entertainment Tonight, Court TV, and Investigation Discovery.

While attending Highland High School, Dimond worked as a receptionist at KGGM, a CBS-affiliated television station in Albuquerque.

In 1976, she won a Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association for her investigative news reports about the misappropriation of funds by the Albuquerque Sheriff's Office.

In addition to covering the O. J. Simpson case,[2] she conducted interviews with Heidi Fleiss, Hollywood Madame; Pamela Smart, who was convicted of convincing her high school student/lover to murder her husband, Kenneth Bianchi, the Hillside Strangler; James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassin; Jeffrey MacDonald, the Green Beret Killer; and Richard Allen Davis, murderer of Polly Klass.

In September 1993, while at Hard Copy, Dimond reported accusations of an inappropriate relationship between Michael Jackson and a young boy named Jordan Chandler.

Jackson subsequently filed a $100 million slander lawsuit against Dimond, Paramount Pictures Corp (producer of Hard Copy), and KABC-AM for including Gutierrez's claims.

[6] In 1998, Dimond moved to NBC news, partnering with Geraldo Rivera on UpFront Tonight, a CNBC nightly newscast where she co-anchored the broadcast and covered some of the high-profile stories of the time, including former President Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial.

In that year, she also joined Investigation Discovery's An American Murder Mystery TV series as a legal commentator, covering the cases of JonBenet Ramsey, Pamela Smart,[17] Casey Anthony, Chandra Levy, and Michael Peterson.

[1] Dimond married broadcast journalist, CBS Radio News anchor, and voice over artist Michael Schoen in January 1991.