Gossip columnist Liz Smith passed away Sunday in New York at age 94 of natural causes, her literary agent confirmed.

Born in Texas, Smith came to New York after graduating from the University of Texas in 1949 and began working as a reporter and producer for NBC. In the late 1950s, she worked as a ghostwriter for the popular "Cholly Knickerbocker" gossip column that ran in Hearst newspapers and served as Cosmo's entertainment editor. In 1976, she started her own column under her own name for the New York Daily News.

The column's popularity lead to it being syndicated in more than 70 newspapers.

She moved from the Daily News to Newsday in 1991, and then to the New York Post. After she was let go in 2009, the column continued in syndication.

"We make stars into something exquisite, and we want to know what they’re doing and thinking because our lives are desperately boring,” she once told The New York Times.

Her relationship with the LGBT community was always ambivalent, as many criticized her for helping to keep stars like Rock Hudson safely closeted.

Smith married high school sweetheart George Beeman, in 1945, and Fred Lister in 1957, but acknowledged her own bisexuality in her memoir, Natural Blonde.

“I think that my relationships with women were always much more emotionally satisfying and comfortable [than with men]," she told the Advocate. "And a lot of my relationships with men were more flirtatious and adversarial. I just never felt I was wife material. I always felt that I was a great girlfriend.”