Tabloid gossip diva Liz Smith dies, aged 94
The amiable queen of tattle-tale columns, who was the highest-paid in the newsroom, coaxed the juiciest stories out of Hollywood's biggest stars
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LIZ SMITH, the long-time queen of New York's tabloid gossip columns, who for more than three decades chronicled little triumphs and trespasses in the soap-opera lives of the rich, the famous and the merely beautiful, died on Sunday at her home in Manhattan. She was 94.
Her friend and literary agent, Joni Evans, confirmed her death.
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