Mariane van Neyenhoff Pearl (born 23 July 1967) is a French freelance journalist and a reporter and columnist for Glamour magazine. She is the widow of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped and murdered by terrorists in Pakistan in early 2002.
Pearl was born in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, France, to a Dutch-Jewish father and an Afro-Chinese-Cuban mother. She was raised in Paris and met Daniel Pearl while he was on assignment there.
They married in August 1999, lived for a time in Mumbai, India, where Daniel was the South Asia bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal, and later traveled to Karachi, Pakistan, to cover aspects of the War on Terrorism. Their son Adam Daniel was born in Paris three months after his father died.[8]
Pearl's memoir, A Mighty Heart, which deals with the events surrounding her husband's kidnapping and murder, was adapted for the film A Mighty Heart. Co-produced by Brad Pitt, Andrew Eaton and Dede Gardner[9] and directed by Michael Winterbottom, the film stars Angelina Jolie and Dan Futterman as Mariane and Daniel Pearl.
Mariane Pearl is a practicing Nichiren Buddhist and a member of Soka Gakkai International