Biography
Type: Biographer, gossip columnist and memoirist
Born: April 24, 1930
Died:
Cince 1979, Adams has written a gossip column for the New York Post, a New York City newspaper. She contributed to Sunday Today in New York, a now-defunct newscast on WNBC television. She had previously contributed twice a week on WNBC's Live at Five newscast until it took on a new format on March 12, 2007.
She also wrote for local papers, eventually writing for the New York Post at the same time as her husband. 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 she published a biography of Jolie Gabor, the mother of the Gabor sisters. Among those whom she interviewed in 1970 was Mohammad-Rezā Pahlavi, the shah of Iran. She later became friendly with Imelda Marcos, the controversial widow of former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos.
She became a syndicated newspaper columnist in 1981; she was an original contributor to the syndicated, tabloid-television series A Current Affair and has appeared often on Good Morning America, a morning news-and-talk show on the ABC television network.
Adams lives and works from a nine-room penthouse apartment in Manhattan, that she and her husband purchased from the estate of billionaire heiress Doris Duke in 1997.
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