BOSOM BUDDIES By KEITH J. KELLY - Business - New York Post Online Edition
March 28, 2007 -- JANE Pratt, the trailblazing magazine editor who either quit or was forced out of her eponymous mag Jane at Condé Nast in mid-2005, finally launches a comeback with her own talk radio show on Sirius Satellite Radio on Friday evenings.
Rumors have circulated for weeks that she would admit in the first show, which will be called Jane Radio, that she was canned by Mary Berner, then head of Condé Nast's Fairchild unit.
But in Pratt's conversation with Media Ink, Pratt insisted, "That's not the case."
Berner was lampooned as the scheming Ellen Cutter in the novel "Falling Out of Fashion" by Pratt's former assistant, Karen Yampolsky, in which a fictional editor named Jill White works on a magazine called Jill.
Pratt shot down the rumors that she was the author of the book - despite suggestions the novel tells a story similar to Pratt's life story.
Pratt, who has been a frequent guest on Howard Stern's show, says, "One of my dreams is to return to Howard's show and tell him the truth about Drew Barrymore and me."
She said years ago, when Stern was on his terrestrial station, he had asked her if she had ever had sex with a woman. She answered "yes" but then demurred when he asked if it was someone people have heard of.
She said she would like to go back and tell him the truth. "It was someone famous. I did have sex with Drew Barrymore," she said.
Barrymore, who had graced the first cover of the debut issue of Jane back in 1997, could not be reached for comment.
Jane has since adopted a somewhat more conventional lifestyle with a longtime male companion Andrew Schaifer and a four-year-old daughter.
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