Claudia Cohen

Claudia Lynn Cohen (December 16, 1950 – June 15, 2007) was an American gossip columnist, socialite and television reporter. The daughter of businessman Robert Cohen, the president of the Hudson County News Company, a magazine wholesaler, and his wife, Harriet, Claudia Cohen grew up in Englewood, New Jersey, and attended the Dwight School for Girls (now the Dwight-Englewood School) and the University of Pennsylvania. In 1976 she joined the New Yor... more

Claudia Lynn Cohen (December 16, 1950 – June 15, 2007) was an American gossip columnist, socialite and television reporter. The daughter of businessman Robert Cohen, the president of the Hudson County News Company, a magazine wholesaler, and his wife, Harriet, Claudia Cohen grew up in Englewood, New Jersey, and attended the Dwight School for Girls (now the Dwight-Englewood School) and the University of Pennsylvania. In 1976 she joined the New York Post as a reporter for its fledgling gossip column Page Six. After the departure of the column's editor, Neal Travis, Cohen was installed as editor in 1978. Noted for going for the jugular, creating a column with savvy and a sharp edge Cohen is credited with putting Page Six on the map. Cohen left the Post in 1980 to start her own short-lived gossip column, I, Claudia (a play on words of the book title I, Claudius) at a rival Manhattan newspaper. While that column was not a success it did further Cohen's profile in New York City's... less