Monday, June 18, 2001
A pop star's ritzy home recording studio has sent a popular New York editor to the hospital. Jane magazine editor-in-chief Jane Pratt (pictured) fell violently ill after construction workers removed sound insulation from the apartment of her former upstairs neighbor, Paula Cole, a source tells us. Pratt's skin began breaking out in rashes in March, around the same time that a crew started taking out the fiber insulation, the source relates. Soon, Pratt's hair was beginning to fall out, and she fell victim to bouts of vomiting. Finally, says our spy, "she noticed these shiny-looking fiber things coming out of her air vents," and members of the construction crew confirmed that it was the insulation from Cole's studio. Pratt has undergone treatment at Mount Sinai's environmental-toxin clinic, we're told, and is back in good health. Unfortunately, she's had to get rid of all her infected clothing, books, and furniture and has been living out of swanky hotels for the past three months. The source tells us that Pratt's got a lawyer on the case and has been contacted by several of her fellow tenants, who "want to compare notes." A healthy-sounding Pratt says she's found a new place and is "feeling much better every day."
-- AllnStrtt
posted at 11:50 PM