Cindy Adams

At 93 years old, Cindy Adams has this physical status:

Cynthia "Cindy" Adams (née Sugar; later Heller; born April 24, 1930) is an American gossip columnist and writer.

She is the widow of comedian/humorist Joey Adams.

Early life and education

Adams, the sole child of New York City, was one year old when her parents divorced. Jessica Sugar, her mother, served as an executive secretary for the New York City Water Department and was a single parent before her marriage to insurance agent Harry Heller.

Adams grew up in Washington Heights, Manhattan, and Jamaica Estates, Queens. She did not graduate from Andrew Jackson High School.

Personal life

Adams lives and works from a nine-room penthouse apartment on Park Avenue in Manhattan, which she and her husband bought from billionaire heiress Doris Duke's estate in 1997. Adams arranged the wrap party for Duke's later years and her butler's friendship with Duke because of the apartment's links with Duke.

Her husband's death was described in her book:

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." Liz Smith, another gossip columnist (whose column was used by the Post) announced in her online column that Adams was sick with a stomach disease in late June. Adams, a Christian Scientist, had refused medical assistance until friends Barbara Walters and television judge Judith Sheindlin compelled her to obtain it; Sheindlin became Adams' healthcare proxy since Adams has no immediate family. The diagnosis was reported as a result of a nearly burst appendix. Smith declared on June 29, 2010 that "She [Adams] is now on the mend." Adams will be "returning soon," according to the New York Post from July 2010 to September 20, 2010. On September 20, 2010, she wrote a column in which she discussed her illness. She claimed to have had a ruptured appendix and anemia.

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Writing career

Since 1979, Adams has written a gossip column for the New York Post, a New York City newspaper. She also contributed to Sunday Today in New York, a now-defunct newscast on WNBC television and had previously contributed twice a week on WNBC's Live at Five newscast, until it took on a new format on March 12, 2007.

Adams also wrote for local papers, including, eventually, the New York Post at the same time as her husband, who wrote a newspaper column for the Long Island Press on Long Island and later the New York Post. In 1965, she co-wrote an English-language autobiography of Indonesia's President Sukarno, about whom she wrote another book two years later. In 1975, Adams published a biography of Jolie Gabor, the mother of the Gabor sisters. Among those whom she interviewed in 1970 was Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the shah of Iran. Adams later became friendly with Imelda Marcos, the controversial widow of former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos.

Adams became a syndicated newspaper columnist in 1981. Additionally, she was an original contributor to the syndicated, tabloid television A Current Affair and has appeared often on Good Morning America, a morning news-and-talk show on the ABC television network. In 1990, Adams served as a panelist on To Tell the Truth, an NBC television network game show.

She is known for ending her columns with the catch phrase: "Only in New York, kids, only in New York."

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