1. Since 1979, Cindy Adams has written a prominent gossip column for the New York Post, a New York City newspaper that has featured approximately 500 of her stories on its front page.
20 Facts About Cindy Adams
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Cindy Adams wrote for local newspapers at the same time as her husband Joey, who wrote a humor column for the Long Island Press and then the New York Post.
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In 1965, Cindy Adams co-wrote an autobiography of Indonesian president Sukarno, about whom she wrote another book in 1967 after he was overthrown.
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Cindy Adams became friendly with Imelda Marcos, the controversial widow of former Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos.
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In 1975, Cindy Adams co-wrote an autobiography of Jolie Gabor, mother of the celebrity Gabor sisters.
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Later biographies by Cindy Adams included actor Lee Strasberg and political matriarch Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy.
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Cindy Adams is especially known for her sympathetic coverage of celebrities facing legal difficulties.
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In 2003, Cindy Adams authored a St Martin's Publishing Group book titled The Gift of Jazzy, a memoir of appreciation for her pet dog.
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Cindy Adams authored a sequel in 2006, titled Living a Dog's Life: Jazzy, Juicy, and Me.
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Cindy Adams promoted luxury dog-related products on the QVC shopping channel, where her longtime friend Joan Rivers promoted a line of jewelry.
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Cindy Adams contributed twice a week to the Live at Five newscast on WNBC television, and then to the station's Sunday Today in New York newscast.
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One weekend in 2003, Cindy Adams put Jazzy in an upstate New York kennel when she left the city.
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Cindy Adams had a necropsy performed, which showed E coli bacteria in the dog's system.
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Cindy Adams became a vocal advocate for strengthening regulations of boarding kennels.
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Cindy Heller Adams was born in Manhattan as Cynthia I First on April 24,1930.
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Cindy Adams attended Andrew Jackson High School in Queens, New York, but did not graduate as planned in 1946, citing an incomplete sewing assignment in home economics.
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Cindy Adams Heller began to work as a photographer's model in Manhattan at age 15.
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Cindy Adams ceased writing her regular New York Post column in May 2010 without notice, and there was no news beyond brief mentions that she was "unwell".
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Smith reported on June 29,2010, that "she [Cindy Adams] is on the mend".
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Cindy Adams's column returned to the Post on September 20,2010, explaining that she had received intensive care for a ruptured appendix, anemia, sepsis, and damaged heart valves.