Kelly Kreth

Kelly Kreth’s dog Mini, a 3-year-old Daschund, was acting “a little bit weird and needy." Ms. Kreth had answered the door to her home and real estate PR office on the Upper East Side dressed in flip-flops and a tight, knee-length, patterned dress, which at certain angles offered a nearly scandalous view of her cleavage. A couple of kinks protruded from her nearly stick-straight hair, betraying what looked like a day-old blowout.

“I just got back from a three-week vacation in India, so he’s afraid I’m going to leave again,” Ms. Kreth explained, as Mini hopped madly around the red, black, and white living room of her railroad apartment on the sixth floor of a townhouse. (The bedroom is painted in the same palette, she volunteered, “because I’m OCD.”)

After a surprisingly long and futile struggle to wrest Mini and position him in her lap, Ms. Kreth finally gave up, tossed a treat nearly as big as the dog into the open kitchen, and closed the gate.  read more »

New York Press editor David Blum explained his decision to fire real estate publicist Kelly Kreth from her job as the weekly paper's sex columnist.

"It was a column that was intended to be and was a specific narrative of her experience, but ultimately it wasn't to my taste," Mr. Blum said over the phone.

"I don't want to try to characterize them," he answered of whether the columns were too explicit. "They speak for themselves."  read more »

Real-estate-publicist-turned-sex-columnist Kelly Kreth has been fired from her job at the New York Press after only four months, The Observer's Real Estate blog reports.