Kay Graham’s Old UN Plaza Co-op Sells for $2.3 M.—It Was Above R.F.K.’s but Below Truman Capote’s

Published: December 4, 2007, 6:18 pm

After publishing In Cold Blood, Truman Capote spent his royalties on a 25th-floor, $62,000 apartment in the high-nosed twin-towered co-op at 860-870 U.N. Plaza. In 1966, he threw his famous Black & White Ball at the Plaza for Kay Graham, another early buyer at his building off First Avenue. The doorman was one of 500 invitees: He is said to have twirled Graham around the dance floor before thanking her for the happiest evening of his life. Those days are gone. Graham, who became The Washington Post's publisher after her husband's 1963 death, piloting the paper through Vietnam and Watergate, died in July 2001 at age 84. (Capote collapsed in their building's lobby 20 years earlier, though he lived for another three.) Now Graham's three-bedroom pied- -terre, four floors lower than her old friend's, has finally been sold, six and a half years after her death. City records show her estate, apparently handled by Washington Post CFO John Morse Jr. and board director

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