Who is GQ Editor Sam Hine? Age, Height, Parents, Ella Emhoff

Ella Emhoff, model, designer, and stepson of Vice President Kamala Harris, is dating GQ editor Sam Hine. Their relationship has been in the news since 2021. But in this short biography, we are trying to add more details about GQ editor Sam. This article explores details about Sam Hine’s parents and siblings, age, career, and more.

Find out everything we know about Sam in this article.

Meet Sam Hine, Ella Emhoff’s Boyfriend

Sam Hine and Ella Emhoff first revealed their relationship in March 2021. They were photographed together in February 2021 when they were seen going out to dinner in New York City. In August 2021, Ella confirmed the relationship in an interview with Vanity Fair. At the time, Ella also shared that her “perfect date would be to stop at the market, buy the weirdest produce, and figure out how to cook with it.”

PageSix first obtained exclusive photos of them holding hands while out in the West Village. In June 2021, the couple was photographed walking down the street in New York City while holding hands. Emhoff wore a bomber jacket, yellow and black striped leggings, and a bucket hat for the event. For her part, Hine wore sneakers, ripped blue pants, and a black Western-style jacket.

The couple rocked New York Fashion Week in late September 2021. On Saturday, Sam and Ella walked hand in hand outside Thom Browne’s Spring 2022 show, also wearing the menswear designer’s collection.

Sam has been very supportive of Ella and was at New York Fashion Week to support her as a “voice of the generation.” Sam told PEOPLE Magazine, “She’s being herself and that’s the message. She’s a real individual. And that’s the most important thing. That’s the real icon.”

Ella Emhoff and her brother Cole are Doug Emhoff’s children from his previous marriage to Kerstin Emhoff. Her parents divorced in 2008 after 16 years of marriage. Ella and Cole grew up in Los Angeles, although her father was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York City. She was a member of the swim and basketball teams at Wildwood High School in Los Angeles, which they both attended.

In a 2020 interview with Glamour, Ella spoke candidly about her father’s relationship with Kamala — whom she now calls “momala” — after their mother’s divorce.

Ella received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in textile design with a focus on knitwear from Parsons School of Design in May. She is also signed to IMG Models. She is best known for her Miu Miu coat from the 2021 Presidential Inauguration.

Sam Hine’s age

Born on August 26, 1993, Sam Hine is 31 years old as of 2024.

Who are Sam Hine’s parents?

Ella Emhoff’s boyfriend, Sam Hine, is the son of Laura Hine and C. Clarkson Hine Jr., his parents. They were married in August 1988 at the East End Church of Christ in East Hampton, LI, with the ceremony held at the Union Chapel in the Grove on Shelter Island.

Laura graduated from Cornell University and was working as a marketing communications specialist for Columbia-Freestate Health System in Columbia, Maryland, at the time of their marriage. She is the daughter of Ruth and Daniel Nieboer of Rochester. Her father was a director of polymer manufacturing for Eastman Kodak and a chemical engineer. Ruth oversaw a kindergarten program in Rochester called the John Knox School.

Sam’s father is the radio services director for the Senate Republican Committee. He graduated from Trinity College in New York and magna cum laude from Cornell.

C. Clarkson Jr. was born to C. Clarkson Hine Sr. (Sam calls him Grandpa Clark) and Susan J. Hine. Clarkson Sr. is vice president of advertising for Quaker Oats’ U.S. Grocery Products division in Chicago. Susan is a partner at Tips on Trips, a Chicago-based consulting firm specializing in summer camps and trips.

Sam tells Blackbird Spyplane that he learned important lessons about life, love and “wellness” from his grandfather Clark, an amateur race car driver, through vintage racing T-shirts passed down from him.

Does Sam Hine have a twin brother?

Sam Hine has a twin brother named Nicholas Hine. As a child growing up in Wilmette, Sam performed in the Children’s Theatre of Winnetka’s production of Prince and the Pauper alongside Nicholas, who received his Harvard Law degree in 2022.

On Instagram, Nicholas is known as (@nicholastift).

The twins also have an older sister, Emmie Hine, who is a PhD candidate in Law, Science and Technology at the University of Bologna, where she studies the ethics and governance of emerging technologies in different geopolitical contexts. She earned her master’s in Social Science of the Internet as a Shirley Scholar at the University of Oxford, where her dissertation compared AI governance policies in the United States and China.

Emmie worked as a full-stack software engineer for a Boston-based enterprise data management software company before starting her PhD program. I graduated from Williams College with a BA in computer science and Chinese, with a concentration in science and technology studies.

Sam Hine’s Height

Sam Hine’s height is over 6 feet.

What is Sam Hine’s net worth?

As of 2024, Sam Hine’s estimated net worth is just under $1 million. At the time of writing, he is a senior contributing editor at GQ magazine. In 2016, Sam began working as an editorial assistant for the former fashion and luxury quarterly GQ Style. He began working as a style editor at GQ in 2019 and was promoted to his current position.

Sam moved to New York City to pursue a career in fashion. “I interned with Antonio Ciongoli when he was the creative director of Eidos,” he once told Grailed. “I was paid in clothes and spent the summer learning as much as I could about how the industry worked.”

Sam, the editor of GQ, has interviewed a number of celebrities, such as A$AP Rocky, John Mayer, and Henry Golding.

“He just talks about the little details of fashion and underground bootleg T-shirt brands and stuff like that,” Sam told Grailed about his interview with John Mayer. “John is as passionate about all of that as we are at GQ. He told me how obsessed he was with a random Instagram story where Virgil [Abloh] created the perfect ombre spray paint on a pair of sunglasses. He went too far.”

Additionally, Sam is the host of GQ’s weekly style podcast, “Corporate Lunch,” and he currently produces a newsletter called Show Notes for the publication.

On his website, Sam shared that he has been “described as ‘what would happen if an Elizabeth Peyton painting got struck by lightning, came to life, and vowed to NEVER STOP HAVING HIS EXTREME ANGER'”.

Sam graduated from Williams College.

Related FAQs

  • Is Sam Hine on Instagram?

Yes, Sam Hine has an Instagram account (@samuelhine) with 44.9k followers.

  • What is Sam Hine’s birthday?

August 26 is Sam Hine’s birthday.

Sam grew up in Chicago but moved to New York City where he currently resides.

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