RIP: New York Gossip Columnist Suzy Knickerbocker

Aileen Mehle was 98.

We can’t think of a better way to remember Aileen Mahle, the longtime New York gossip columnist who passed away Friday at age 98, than to revisit her 1967 encounter in Gotham City with Batman and Robin.

In print, Mehle started as “Suzy” with the Miami Daily News and the Mirror in New York. When she moved over to the New York Journal-American in 1963, she became Suzy Knickerbocker after taking over a column written by Igor Cassini under the pen name Cholly Knickerbocker.

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