Former Condé Nast President and CEO Steve Florio died yesterday from a heart attack. Florio, 58, underwent cardiac surgery eight years ago, but never fully recovered; heart problems subsequently forced him to take a premature leave from his post at Condé.

As has already been noted, Florio, in addition to being the one-time top dog at both the New Yorker and GQ, is perhaps best known for almost using his quarter-century career at 4 Times Square as grist for a tell-all, which, had it been published, would have dished about the real-life Mr. Big (former Vogue and GQ publisher Ronald A. Galotti).

It is probably best the manuscript never went to press: according to the Times, "two executives who insisted on anonymity said that they were disgusted by what Mr. Florio was writing and baffled as to why he was doing it." Still, he's also remembered for being the last of a dying breed, the larger than life publisher with equal skills as a silver-tongued charmer and a shrewd businessman.