New York Post gossip columnist Cindy Adams has had some 500 front-page exclusives, many of which are now plastered on the walls and ceiling of her office. See inside her Park Avenue penthouse
The Office: Cindy Adams’s war room, where the gossip still lands. The walls and ceiling have been plastered over time with her front-page scoops. Photo: Stephen Kent Johnson “I thought if it was good enough for Doris Duke, it’s good enough for me,” Cindy Adams says, striding through the foyer of the Park Avenue penthouse she purchased in 1997 — with her own money, she wants you to know — and today shares with her 17-year-old Yorkshire terrier, Juicy.
The Living Room: Adams holding Juicy, her Yorkshire terrier. Photo: Stephen Kent Johnson “I don’t know what she dropped,” Adams says, pointing to the large crack in the travertine floor left over from Duke’s tenure. It runs all the way to the living room, where light pours in through the floor-to-ceiling plateglass windows overlooking the terrace onto which she never goes . They match the ones in the apartment next door, which Duke’s neighbor, film producer Sam Spiegel, had put in.
Smart and ambitious she was. Joey may not have had a Ph.D., but he was talented, popular, and funny, and, as she writes in her best-selling book The Gift of Jazzy — named for her first Yorkie — “Joey loved me the way my mother did. Without reservation.” Plus “Joey had a lifestyle,” she says. He dressed beautifully, loved to live large with his pals , squired her to the Stork Club, and lived in the Waldorf Towers.
The Office: Adams decided to use Doris Duke’s former bathroom as her office space. Adams wanted to put the tub out on the terrace, but the fire department ruled that out — she now uses it as a receptacle for spare papers and magazines. Photo: Stephen Kent Johnson The Guest Powder Room: The poppy print, which envelops everything from the walls to the sink fixtures, looks just as fresh today as it did when it was installed shortly after Adams moved in.
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