Bess Myerson Dies at 90

You forgot shoplifter and adulteress but....

So, so young.

Remember Sukhreet Gabel, the daughter of the judge who reduced Bess's lover's alimony payments in return for a job for Sukhreet? I think that was what happened. Anyway, SG used to appear on the Howard Stern show years ago. She was a wacky one! Anyone know WEHT her?

Her hot fling with Ed Koch used to set tabloids on fire in the 80s.

She was Koch's beard for a while.

Ed Koch was a fag and she was just the dame not to disprove it.

She's one of those "I thought she died years ago."

She was Ed Koch's Sonja Henie.

Sixty dollars down, twenty to go.

Lol

[QUOTE]BESS MYERSON IS DEAD TO ME!!! DEAD!!!!!

TRY to get it right, OP.

Christ.

(Well, she was Jewish, so I should say, "טאָכעס."

That scandijuvien lasted a long time. I wonder if she had much money left when she died?

r8, who did Sonja Henie beard for?

She was on the Datalounge 2015 death list.

Hortense and Suhkreet Gable lived in the same large white 60s's building as David Dinkins on 68th between Second and Third.

215 East 68th Street current and past tenant list is heavy with NYC/NYS politicians and appointees.

Yet more:

Quite honestly know a few persons who moved into market rate units at 215 East 68th Street and couldn't get out fast enough. Complaints ranged from paper thin walls, near constant noise from construction, horrible residents and an indifferent or abusive staff.

[quote] You forgot shoplifter

Oh pish tosh.

She died on December 16. I had read that she had been living with Alzheimer's for some time.

She was gorgeous....the modern day Queen Esther.

Her death leaves Betsey Palmer as the lone surviving panelist from the CBS I've Got a Secret.

[quote] I had read that she had been living with Alzheimer's for some time.

Who? The Alzheimer family? I'm confused.

"Her death leaves Betsey Palmer as the lone surviving panelist from the CBS I've Got a Secret."

Jayne Meadows was an "I've Got a Secret" panelist for a few years and she's still with us.

R22, that reminds me of something I read years ago in the NYT. A mother could not control her unruly toddler, so she told her if she didn't behave she'd have to live with the consequences. The little girl surprised her mother by breaking into tears. When asked why she was crying, the child said she didn't want to live with this family she didn't even know!

[quote]I had read that she had been living with Alzheimer's for some time.

It must have been a typo. She had been living with Al Zimmers for the past three years.

Expect an over the top praiseworthy column from Bess' good buddy Cindy Adams.

If only Datalounge had been around when Sukhreet Gabel was in her heyday.

She was charmingly insane - a Little Edie Bouvier-type whacko.

So young...

Geez Rhoda even outlived Phyllis's kid.

Bess, you is my woman now.

Odd that her death is getting more LA Times coverage than Mario Cuomo's passing.

Only we oldsters know who Bess was...

She was show business for most people. She lived in Santa Monica. Of course, LA Times will give her a big obit and the tv stations will treat her like a dead star. She is one.

She was not a nice woman.

Her obit in the NY Times summarizing her life and career is really fascinating. For someone who seemed rather bland, if sophisticated and beautiful, she led a very tempestuous and controversial life.

Let's focus on some of the positive things. She was responsible for many crusades in NYC against corrupt business practices and represented feminist ideals long before there was even a name for feminism.

She was evidently a woman who rose against great odds to a life of celebrity and power. Often it's those who have to fight so hard for that power are the ones who ultimately abuse it.

In the early fifties there was a game show called The Big Payoff. Meyerson would parade around in a glamorous mink coat which was the grand prize. I must have been 8 or 9 years old.

[quote]I had read that she had been living with Alzheimer's for some time.

Out of wedlock? That whore.

[quote] who did Sonja Henie beard for?

Liberace. See R8.

BUMP

R38, why did you bump the thread six minutes after the last post?

[quote]Meyerson would parade around in a glamorous mink coat which was the grand prize.

I bet she "stole" that too.

OFF WITH THEIR HEADS !!!

[quote]represented feminist ideals long before there was even a name for feminism.

No doubt she did many great things for the cause of feminism. But it's kind of funny thinking that she earned the platform to do that initially as a Miss America, whose tiara, sash and wand (not to mention the once-touted "measurements") represented an image against which many feminists protested.

I like to think Gary Moore, Bill Cullen, and Henry Morgan are greeting her tonight in that great green room in the sky.

Bess once left a box of excrement on the doorstep of a woman her boyfriend was sleeping with.

Bess was a friend of my mother's. They grew up in the Bronx, in the Sholom Alechem, a group of buildings on Sedgwick Avenue. Bess' father was a house painter; their apartment was allegedly furnished with items that had mysteriously disappeared from the homes of his customers. But Bess did not take the furs from the game show on which she appeared. (She did swipe the cosmetics in PA, as well as some goodies in the Moscow airport.) She got her coats wholesale at a furrier who thought it would be good publicity. My mother visited with her once, but got her own furs the old fashioned way, by saying "brrrr" in front of my father.

And those are the only things I remember, except one: Bess was into rough sex. The affair with Andy Capasso was not her one instance of slumming. (Money or not, he was blue collar trade.)

My goodness r44, did your mother tell you Bess was into rough sex?

I'm not sure my mother even understood the phrase.

She's beauty and she's grace... she's MISS UNITED STATES!

R45, what my mother told me was that "she seems to like men who beat her up." She was observing a pattern, not reporting something that Bess had told her. I translated.

R47: If those are the things your mother would say about a so-called friend, what would she say about her enemies?

R48, I don't regard what R44 & 47's mother said to be a betrayal of friendship.

What ever happened to Barra Grant, Bess' actress daughter?

Barra Grant is still living.

Here's the anti-war Bess, reunited with Betsy Palmer.

That’s a shame. ™

I'd like to hear more from Charlie.

Again? Didn't she die years ago? Oh, wait…this thread is more than four years old. I guess this a slow-gossip day.

I'm old enough to remember The Big Payoff and the mountains of prizes.

Who the hell bumps a Bess Myerson thread from years ago!?!!

She's still dead? Who can forget this spontaneous interplay?

Her daughter has written a play about how horrible a mother she was.

Called "Miss America's Ugly Daughter."

Yes, my darlings, Bess and "The Big Payoff." I remember it well....In fact, whenever I hear her name, the first thing I think of is: MINK COAT.

The host of The Big Payoff was Randy Merriman, who, to my knowledge, was never seen before or since. When I was a little kid I used to fantasize about jacking off with him. He was in his 30s at the time. I was about10.

Okay,call me a pervert. I've been called worse.