New York gossip queen Cindy Adams: ‘My loyalty is to anyone who’ll give me the best quote’

The 91-year-old tabloid columnist, the star of a new Showtime documentary, on Murdoch, Trump - and why New York is the capital of the world

Cindy Adams, the long-serving gossip queen of the New York Post, was battling Hurricane Ida in her Manhattan apartment. Her terriers were disturbed, and she was not sleeping. A glass-enclosed penthouse is not good," she said. The pounding of the rain. And not just rain, the thunder. I was up all night."

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